desmond

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Gender	Male
Industry	Education
Occupation	Software Engineer
Location	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Introduction	I have a BA (1980) in Classical Greek language and Ancient History, a PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK in Classical Greek papyrology. I have recently been awarded a second PhD in the ITEE School at UQ for my thesis on 'Multiple Versions and Overlap in Digital Text'. From 1989 until 2005 I worked for the Cambridge Wittgenstein Archive making an edition of Wittgenstein. I spent three years as a Computer Associate running the IT support group at the Wellcome/CRC Institute in Cambridge. I have also spent three years developing a commercial license managment system for Mac OSX. I then worked for three years on the Leximancer text mining application (www.leximancer.com) which strives to extract meaning from natural text. I currently work at the Queensland University of Technology Information Security Institute. Since 2002 I have worked with <a href="http://www.digitalvariants.org">Digital Variants</a>, since 2010 with the HRIT group at the University of Loyola, Chicago, and since 2012 on the <a href="http://itee.uq.edu.au/~eresearch/projects/austese/">AustESE project</a> at the University of Queensland.
Favorite Movies	Ulysses
Favorite Books	A.E. Van Vogt: The Battle of Forever