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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

Monday 19/04/04 @ 11:20 am

Back in Cambridge

I got back into Cambridge on Saturday, and promptly spent the afternoon unpacking and doing food shopping at Tesco - exciting stuff! We had an interesting dinner of raclette, introduced to us by Nick, which basically consists of melted cheese (with potatoes and pickles). Very nice though. In typical Cambridge style, I then spent a couple of hours arguing with Andrew over the definition of language!

I had to get up quite early yesterday in order to get the D&D preparation done that I had failed to do over the last five weeks! It didn't take long though - I basically knew what I was going to do; I just hadn't written down the details. Anyway, the session went pretty well - plenty of interesting plot developments involving dragons :-). I also threw in a chimera (of the three-headed variety) for good measure. Also because one of the PCs once commented that they were 'cool'. How I enjoy being evil...

I now have three days before lectures start in which to get some more work done :-)

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