# Research & Interests

My Research Interests Within Computing (Academic and Professional)

My main research interests lie in the following areas:

  • Knowledge Acquisition, Information Architecture and Knowledge Engineering.
  • Intelligent Systems: All kinds of Supervised, Unsupervised and Reinforcement Learning systems. I am particularly interested in Text Mining systems, as well as Artificial Neural Networks.
  • Connections between Computing and Religion, Philosophy and Psychology.
  • Web Technology:
    Semantic Web,
    Web 2.0/Social Web Systems,
    Web 3.0, 4.0 (The Intelligent Web) and Web Standards

My other interests include:

  • Functional Programming and Object-Oriented Programming.
  • Cross Platform Development & Issues.
  • Open Source Development.
  • Operating Systems.
  • Fuzzy Logic.

Outside of Computing (and not so academic and a bit more amateur)

  • Religion, Spirituality, Mysticism, Esotericism, etc: Particularly those relating to Christianity and/or Gnosticism and/or Interfaith Dialogue/Worship
  • Philosophy (particularly of the Mind and of Spirituality)
  • Psychology (particularly Jungian and personality-based)
  • Music (particularly Rock, Metal, Jazz, Classical and Choral) (I can play the Guitar, Bass Guitar, Ocarina and Didgeridoo) (I sing at at bass level)
  • The history and philosophies of Freemasonry (particularly regular-orientated esoteric Masonry)
  • The history and philosophies of the Knights Templar
  • Vegetarianism (Lacto-Ovo)

Last updated: 26th May 2009