Graham Klyne
http://www.ninebynine.org/
For contact details, see http://www.ninebynine.org/index.html#Contact
This is also a holding page for http://www.klyne.org/.
This domain name is held by my brother, Lawrence Klyne. See here for more.
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Welcome to my web site. This is a place I use to post items of work and pleasure interests that I'd like to share.
Why "Nine by Nine"? Back in 1986 I left my then full-time employment to trade as a freelance software developer and consultant. At that time, my working space was a small "box room", slightly smaller than 9 feet square, into which I shoehorned all of my computer equipment and books, which gave rise to my trading name. Since then I've been in and out of normal employment a few times, but have retained my trading name to provide a degree of continuity, and to remind me of those good old days :-)
Currently, I'm doing research and development work with the Image Bioinformatics Group of the zoology department at Oxford University, applying Semantic Web technologies to the development of a semantically-enhanced image database and publishing system (http://www.bioimage.org), working on Web portal technogoes for virtual research envrionments (VREs) for Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS) Research Technologies Service (RTS), and developing embedded web software for a startup company O2M8.
I also provide network Internet application standards consulting services through Nine by Nine. My work has involved me in Internet standards development with IETF and W3C, helping developers incorporate new technologies into products, raising awareness of emerging technologies with product planners, and undertaking experimental prototyping of new ideas. I have recently been involved with the iTrust working group and active in the Haskell programming community.
I've been working on designing and developing Internet software since about 1994, prior to my current position being head of strategic research for MIMEsweeper Group, exploring ideas server-based network content security and management software. Before that I was involved in a variety of technical software developments, ranging from process control and computer aided design to scientific instrumentation and financial trading software. I designed and devloped the first commercial 3-dimensional motion capture system, VICON, which was originally intended for application in orthopaedic medicine but which has since evolved into a very comprehensive system with applications in medicine, sports biomechanics, robotics, and scene synthesis for films and computer games. The original software ran on a Digital PDP-11/23 using 128Kb of main memory and 10Mb of disk. A distant descendent of that early software is currently produced and marketed by Vicon Motion Systems.
My interests include metadata and knowledge based applications using RDF and other Semantic Web technologies, application messaging and asyncronously coupled network systems (e.g. APEX; see also my presentation given at ISOC 2001 - PPT, PDF), real time systems and functional programming (particularly using Haskell).
I am married to Mandy and have two children, Ronan and Rhiannon. We live near Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England, close to the River Thames.
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One of the great pleasures that Mandy and I enjoy is to travel the British waterways by narrowboat. The inland waterways were built in the 18th and 19th centuries to carry trade goods and raw materials, but by the late 1800s were rapidly being displaced by railways. To save costs, many of the locks and bridges were built just 7 feet wide, leading to the characteristic long thin shape of the narrowboats that ply the canals. These boats have been described as resembling a "steel sausage". Now the canals are used mostly for pleasure boating, and it is possible to travel by inland waterway all the way from Bristol in the South West of England up to Skipton in North Yorkshire. If you have plenty of time, that is, because narrowboats do not travel fast: 3 lock-miles per hour is a fairly good pace.
My family have our own boat, Helva (named for Anne McCaffrey's "ship who sang"), which is a 57 foot narrowboat.
My other hobby is radio controlled model flying. Standing on top of a hill, with scenic views over open countryside, and flying a glider using nothing more than the natural lift created by wind blowing on to the hill is a pretty good antidote to being sat in front of a computer screen all day.
Miscellaneous images from various excursions, near and far, for work and pleasure.
(This is rather out of date: I should update it to take account of more recent FOAF developments.)
Most of my incoming email is subjected to very aggressive spam filtering.
The email address below is whitelisted to avoid that filtering, but it may be blacklisted at any time (i.e. when the spammers get their grubby hands on it) so don't bookmark it - return here to find the currently whitelisted contact email address. Also, you'll need to remove "nospam." from the address given here - I've noticed spammers harvesting new address values within hours of being posted.
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