elcome to Thomas Thurman's page

About me

• I'm currently a graduate student on the MPhil Computer Speech and Language Processing course. One day I want to do a PhD, but I'm probably going to be working next year.
• I'm a Christian. More about what that means is here.
• I'm a member of: CICCU, Sidney CU, the Evangelical Alliance, Reform, the G&S Soc, CUHAGS, Mensa, the BCS (Student grade), and an Associate Subscriber of the Royal Institution; and I'm also doing some stuff with CSIS.
• As you've probably guessed by now, I'm a Sidneyite; take a look around the web pages of what's reputed to be the friendliest college in Cambridge.
• I was co-author on the Avvy Project. Do you remember Denarius Avaricius Sextus, Lord Avalot d'Argent and Spellchick? Refresh those memories here!
• I'm quite a fan of Java (the language, not the coffee); it's friendly and portable; none too fast as yet, but there we go. I'm collecting together a few of my utility classes online (they live in the package ucam.org.tjat2.util).
• I was born in the small and beautiful town of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, but I grew up in Letchworth Garden City (bizarre place).
• I write the occasional sonnet.
• I do have an online CV now!
• You might meet me on Surfers (login) or Mars (login) ; my spod name is Marnanel.
• Before coming here, I was busy reading for the BSc Computer Science at the University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield.
• Yes, I was there!.
• I suppose you might want to know what Ratatosk the squirrel is sitting on this page for...
• I like to read (in alphabetical order): Diana Wynne Jones, C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, J.I. Packer, Adrian Plass, J.C. Ryle, J.R.R. Tolkien (when I have the time <g>) and others, who will be added onto this page asap; hyperlinks soon.

Links

• The Christian Think Tank (aka Wittgenstein's Net), for anyone who doesn't leave their brains in the church porch. :)
• Some good Bible overviews:
  • Sensible, feet on the ground.
  • Fairly wild!

Contact

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