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Me

I live in Oxford in the UK, where I work for Undo software on the UndoDB reversible debugging system, and as a software contractor.

In the past I've worked for various start-ups, RSA Security, Sibelius Software (briefly) and at Acorn/E-14, was a postgraduate at Edinburgh University, and an undergraduate at Oxford University.

In the more distant past I played in the City of Sheffield Youth Orchestra.

Undo Software - the UndoDB reversible debugger.
Yabs - a small and simple build system written in Python (updated 2007 Nov 26).
Throwback, a system for use with X Windows, allowing easy opening of files by pressing a hot key when the mouse pointer is over diagnostics such as compiler errors or the ouput from grep -n.
Complacency in the computer industry - an article about the ills of the computer industry, published in the 2006 October edition of the ACCU's CVu journal.
I've written a proposal for adding multimethods to C++.
I gave a paper about C++ and Multimethods at the ACCU spring 2003 conference.
Cmm - a C++ language extension/translator that I've written to add support for multimethods.
RunC - a simple and crude system that enables C++ programmes to be used as Unix scripts.
JLib - Phil Ludlum's collection of code and utilities that I wrote for RISC OS a few years ago.

My Ph.D. thesis, "Neural Networks, Information Theory and Knowledge Representation", University of Edinburgh, 1995. Also available as a zipped postscript file: thesis.ps.zip (475k).
My GPG public key. This is also on http://www.keyserver.net/ as Julian Smith <jules@op59.net>