Writings and appearances
I have been exceptionally lucky in my career. I received an excellent education from the University of Leeds. I was lucky enough to work for Apple for four critical years. I have worked at six startups - each a unique and fascinating experience. I spent four years at Google.
I have written a number of articles about computer science
A paper describing the Convex system for extracting concepts from resumes and subsequently matching the best qualified candidates to jobs. A blend of knowledge-based and speculative concept extraction provides high quality results even outside the scope of the built-in knowledge. A comparison test shows the results found by Convex are significantly better than those found by engines using a keyword or statistical conceptual approach.
An overview of the Google Squared project, presented at the 2010 European Conference on Information Retrieval
Five articles introducing the most important principles of Computer Science to a non-technical audience
How everything is becoming software
The impact of the Raspberry Pi and how it will usher in a new age of the hobbyist programmer
The critical importance of the life and work of Alan Turing
Why every child should learn to code, because it promotes computational thinking
I have distinctly mixed feelings about software patents. Many egregiously bad patents have been granted and patent trolls are a real threat to innovation. On the other hand, there are also ideas worth protecting. I won't judge which categories the following ideas fall into, but when you work at large companies like Apple and Google, you often end up with patents. Here are some of mine: