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Hello, I am Dr Mischa Moussavian Tuffield and am currently working for Garlik. I am currently building stuff on foaf.qdos.com, specifically FOAF services trying to push the Semantic Web into the wild. I also work on DataPatrol, and on QDOS.

I am interested in ways of harnessing the amount of FOAF/personal information publicly available on the interweb. I would like to help educate people with respect to how much information people are posting to the internet, in the form of digital trails. I am also interested in the capture of personal metadata to support trivial tasks such as photo-annotation, and to aid the vanity that is Lifelogging.

I have also recently completed my PhD at the University of Southampton. I did my PhD at the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group under the supervision of Professor Nigel Shadbolt. I was funded by the AKT project, and am currently lucky enough to be pursuing work related to my research in area of acquiring and utilising of personal metadata. To get information on what I was up to at the University of Southampton please visit my old website for more info. A compact version of my university work can be found here.

I have a MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, resulting in my general interest in the field. I am interested in utilising the web as a data-set in order to assemble autobiographical metadata. And how we can use such contextual information to help people out with trivial tasks.

If you are machine you may want to have a look at my FOAF profile. You can find an html rendering of my FOAF file here. You can find my PGP key here. This was created using GnuPG, and if you do not know what this means, I would not worry about it :)

I also work hard to find time to make noise on my guitar, I like metal, the more technical/brutal the better, I hope that one day I will be awesome at playing... I also like and do other things.

In true community spirit I have been involved with the following programme committees:

Here is a link to my CV.

SIOC RDF of my blog can be found here (SIOC RDF of blog).