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Welcome to my website. Please feel free to browse at your will, using the menu on your left. The main page below is home to my (long neglected) weblog for those of you that are bored enough to take an interest in what's going on in my life :-). I'm currently a Principal Scientist at Adobe, working on the architecture for asset management and collaboration in Creative Cloud. Prior to this, I was the lead developer for Creative Cloud Libraries - a revolutionary new way of sharing creative content between different applications, devices, and people. I previously helped to develop Adobe Scout, which was a visual profiler for Flash and AIR applications. Prior to this, I was a researcher in the Language Based Technology group at the Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen. I was part of the MT-LAB project, which is a collaboration between DTU, Aalborg University, and ITU, investigating formal verification techniques for advanced software systems. My particular research was concerned with probabilistic and stochastic analysis of distributed systems. I did my PhD in the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, supervised by Professor Jane Hillston. Previously, I studied at Robinson College, Cambridge. I originate from Bridlington, a little sea-side town on the Yorkshire coast. In the summer of 2005, I was a Senior Technical Associate at Fraser Research, in Princeton, New Jersey. Non-academically, I've been studying Japanese since January 2006, and I have been playing the fascinating game of Go since September 2006. I was previously the president of the Edinburgh University Go Club, and was a member of the Japan-UK 150 sub-committee for Scotland. My current grade is around 3kyu. Other than that, there's not much else to say. Feel free to enjoy the site! 楽しんでください！ Michael Smith

Friday 24/06/05 @ 07:31 pm

Results...

Ok, so this morning I came into the lab slightly early, so I could head over to the bank to do a wire transfer before our 10am meeting. Of course, John was quick to check his email and got his result (a 1st - well done!), so I was compelled to check mine. All I had was an email from Tom saying conngratulations to Sam and myself. So I replied asking if this meant I had gotten a 1st. The answer was "yes, of course", so I was naturally relieved, and had a good meeting/presentation of our work.

On returning to check my email before heading to lunch, I was greeted with a message from Alan, saying "congratulations on prizes." So, John had won an "outstanding dissertation" prize, and I found that I had won the "MSR prize for Best Student". What did this mean, I wondered? Possibly just some random prize for my dissertation, or similar, perhaps.

I was then greeted with another email from Alan, giving the following:

p7/p8/p9/diss 81+88+94+89 = 352/400 = very top first.
Wonderful.

So, it appears that (of all things), I got the top first in the year! Pretty amazing... I still can't believe it, and I certainly wasn't expecting it!

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