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<head> <title>About the author</title> <body> <h1>About the Author</h1> In October 1994, I started my PhD at Southampton University in the Department of Electronics & Computer Science. I am researching distributed business process support systems, currently looking at the building of systems supporting mathematical process definitions, defined in languages such as CSP (Communicating Sequential Processes) defined by C.A.R. Hoare. I am based in the Mountbatten Building, named after Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. <h3>First Degree</h3> I graduated in July 1994, also from Southampton University, with a First in Computer Systems Intergration. During my time as an undergraduate I took a year out with International Computers Limited (ICL), working in a research group for the Retail Systems division in Bracknell, in the UK. Immediately after my graduation, I started work on ArcWeb. It's first major public showing was at Acorn World 94 (although a small number of people had earlier versions) and it has been featured on the Comms page of Acorn User and on the BBC television program <a href="http://www.bbcnc.org.uk/bbctv/childrens/blue_peter/">Blue Peter</a>. <h3>Life Story</h3> To complete the life story, I attended St. Olave's Grammar School, which is in Orpington, Kent which I represented at both rugby and atheletics. The school hit the headlines when it was revealed that Labour Party shadow cabinet member Harriet Harman had decided to send her son to the school. (For those unfamiliar with British politics, the Labour party is committed to abolishing grammar schools and selective schools - of which St. Olave's is an example of both). Before that I was at Biggin Hill Junior School, and before that, at Biggin Hill Infant School. <h3>Biggin Hill</h3> As you probably gathered, my parental home is in Biggin Hill, which is most well-known for its rôle in the Second World War as a key airfield in the defence of London. Although the RAF recently moved its Officer Training School elsewhere, the airport still hosts an annual International Air Fair in May or June. If you have visited the Air Fair since 1983 and approached by car or coach from the Westerham direction, then you will have driven past my house, as our quiet little road can be opened up as an access road to the airport. <hr><address> Stewart Brodie, BSc (Hons)</address>
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