About imc

Name:

Ian Collier

Date of birth:

12 October 1968 -- I just look younger.

Email:

imc@comlab.oxford.ac.uk

Snail mail:

Oxford University Computing Laboratory,
Wolfson Building,
Parks Road,
Oxford OX1 3QD,
England.

Telephone:

Direct: +44 1865 283589
Department: +44 1865 273838
Fax Machine: +44 1865 273839

Occupation:

Computing Officer (member of the computing support team).

Research:

I got my D.Phil. in 1995. My D.Phil. Supervisor was Jeff Sanders. My research topic was the refinement and development of action systems. If you want a copy of my thesis then you can have one. It is approximately 320K of gzipped postscript suitable for double-sided printing on A4 paper on a 600dpi printer.

After that, I gave up research, I'm afraid.

Interests:

• Computing :-)
  My home page (which is represented by the button containing the letter H which appears at the bottom of most of my pages) contains a menu of some of the computing-related things I am interested in.
• The Invariant Society.
• I watch on average about 25 hours of television a week. But there is someone who watches even more than that...
• I listen to Radio 4 on average 10-12 hours a week.
• I like classical music, especially the harpsichord music of J. P. Rameau, and also have a collection of albums by the groups SKY and The Shadows.

• >Not all of us have come from toof families   ...   In a
  >way the only reason you are still there could be the fact you are scared of
  >the big wide world and the word Mr I. Revenue often known as the tax man.
  

  - "DJ Taz" <djtaz@madasafish.com> in reaction to a mild grammar flame in alt.oxford.talk on 1 February, 2000 (copy of article from Deja.com).

• >Good grief, another brain-dead student. I'm going to start witholding my
  >tax.
  

  - "Stuart Campbell" <thumbs_aloft@dial.pipex.com> in a pointless flamewar about the legality of emulation in comp.sys.sinclair on 21 November, 1998 (copy of article).