The BioInformer nr. 4, 1998 --- Mark Carroll




	A publication of EMBL - Outstation Hinxton, The European Bioinformatics Institute

Mark Carroll

Research Scientist

E-mail: carroll@ebi.ac.uk

University of Cambridge

From 1993 to 1996 I studied for my undergraduate degree in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge, England, where I mostly took the more theoretical courses. Around that time I worked generally as a freelance computer consultant and spent a few months as a research assistant writing software for the university's Engineering Design Centre. I may be a supervisor for some computer science courses at the university for the coming academic year (1998/99).

The Ohio State University

After graduating from Cambridge, I became a Visiting Scholar in the Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research at the Ohio State University (OSU) where I worked on the design and implementation of software for evaluating hybrid vehicle designs using the distributed computing techniques afforded by Modula-3; we now have a patent pending for the architecture used by the software. I moved on to develop software for dynamically creating design evaluators (not only in the vehicle domain) using libraries of composable parts in conjunction with a goal-directed simulation system.

The Present - European Bioinformatics Institute

Since August 1998 I have been working at the EBI under Christos Ouzounis. This should allow me to make use of my artificial intelligence skills and my experience in performing complex CPU-intensive operations on large amount of data, while giving me an opportunity to learn a lot about molecular biology and the leading edge of bioinformatics.

Independent Work

Outside of my work for the EBI, my research interests include:

Algorithmic design and analysis of block ciphers and key exchange protocols

Strongly typed flow-based or data-driven declarative programming languages

Use of associative memories for hypothesis generation

Automated composition of music

I intend to earn an external PhD from the University of Cambridge and to become a member of the British Computer Society and a Chartered Engineer. I have experience of setting up and managing computer systems (mostly flavours of UNIX) and on our network at home I run Debian Linux. I remain a consultant for OSU, and am also a director of Asquith Burton Ltd which develops payroll software for small businesses.

Away from Work

You can find out more about me outside of work from my personal home page at http://www.chaos.x-philes.com/~mark/

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