Welcome to the site.
About Me
I am Richard Newman, an Englishman in Silicon Valley. Everything else you can pick up through contextual clues.
About This Page
holygoat.co.uk is a repository for my personal projects, blog, research work, pictures, ontologies, and miscellaneous detritus. As the detritus ages, I gradually trim it away. Such is life.
My blog sits on a modified version of PHPosxom 0.61. It now bears little resemblance to the original, even discarding the characteristic plain-text entries. One day it will be rewritten, as all software seems to be.
Employment
I work for Tellme, a Microsoft Subsidiary, in Mountain View, California, where I have the pleasure to be paid to work on interesting problems, with great people, often in the sunshine.
I like to write Common Lisp, and occasionally other languages (English amongst them — hence the blog!). I've worked on the Wilbur toolkit, the twinql SPARQL engine (whose descendants are now part of AllegroGraph, in a much-enhanced form), and a host of other bits and bobs, only some of which I can disclose.
Academic Information
Until September 2007 I was a PhD student at the University of Reading, researching various issues on the Semantic Web, and lecturing on a few topics. I found a full-time job to be quite incompatible with finishing my studies, though I am as active as ever in the Semantic Web community.
My research interests are mainly targeted at the Semantic Web. This means I write about trust, FOAF, RDF, OWL, agents, inference, metadata, and all that.
I'm interested in other things too; I just tend not to write about them so much!
A full résumé/CV is available on request; a cut-down version is available.
