CURRICULUM VITÆ
Name:
Thomas James Alexander Thurman
DOB:
30th January 1975
Nationality:
British
Address:
T.J.A. Thurman, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge CB2 3HU
Telephone:
Not listed on the electronic version---
mail me and ask.
Email:
Computer skills
Languages:
C,
Java,
Pascal,
Visual Basic,
Access Basic,
SQL, Prolog,
Ada.
Now learning Perl.
Environments:
Unix (especially
Linux), DOS, Windows 3.1,
some Windows 95.
Education
1997-date:
Reading for the
MPhil Computer Speech and Language Processing
at
Sidney Sussex College,
Cambridge CB2 3HU.
This course covers:
Speech topics:
algorithms for speech analysis; speech pattern processing; speech recognition; phonetics; automated syntactic and semantic analysis of English; acoustic modelling; speech output; search and language modelling.
Language topics:
representation, reasoning and pragmatics; phonology; syntax and parsing; semantics and inference; discourse processing; language systems; statistical approaches.
The course also includes some psycholinguistics.
1993-97:
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at the
University of Hertfordshire,
College Lane, Hatfield, Herts AL10 9AB.
Obtained first class honours.
This course covered:
In the first year:
programming; organisation of computer systems; formal notations and models; problem solving.
In the second year:
business and society; systems design and development; computer systems design exercise; computing environments; data organisation and programming.
The third year
is spent on placement in industry. Please see the 1995-6 entry below, under Work, for more details.
In the fourth year:
computer networks; operating systems; database management; problem solving, knowledge and reasoning; speech and language processing. Also submitted the required project, which investigated the automatic translation of dataflow specifications.
Other qualifications
3 "A" levels:
- Physics: Grade C
- French: Grade D
- Mathematics: Grade E
9 GCSEs.
Work
Summer 1997
Systems Application Support,
The Bank of Nova Scotia, Finsbury Square, London.
This job involved:
Partly development in
Visual Basic,
and partly as a company contact for an external firm who were designing the disaster management plans.
Summer 1996
Finance Department,
The Bank of Nova Scotia, Finsbury Square, London.
This job involved:
Mainly maintenance of spreadsheets, etc.
1995-6
I.T. Trainee (industrial placement)
Policy and Planning Office,
Education Department,
London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, Town Hall, Barking.
This job involved:
Maintenance, support and development of all packages built in-house
at the Education Department (by me or my predecessors); ported many
of them to Microsoft Access since they were originally mostly in Clipper.
Perhaps the most important project of the year was the development of a
new database and related tools for the Education Social Work Service,
which by saving record-keeping time allowed them to increase their caseload.
In addition, obtained permission to put issues
19
and
20
of the house journal,
Education Matters,
onto the World-Wide Web; this has apparently since become
one of the trainees duties.
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