About

About Me

So, I’m Tom Castle. I’m currently working towards my PhD in computer science at the University of Kent, Canterbury. My research interests are in Evolutionary Computation and in particular Genetic Programming and Grammatical Evolution. As well as GP, I have a personal interest in classic cryptography and cryptanalysis. I’m predominately a Java developer and I have a number of active web projects too. Outside of computing, I appreciate most arts, and at the moment particularly photography. Mountain walking, XC biking, football and travelling are a few more of my personal habits.

You can find me on flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/polydeuces

Why TC33…?

TC33 was the user id assigned to me when I first started at UoK back in 2003 and over the years I’ve become rather attached to it. I needed to choose a short and simple domain name with a personal connection, and it seemed like a decent choice.

A Few More Tit-bits

• My IDE of choice is Eclipse.
• I run 4 machines – windows 7 x64, windows 7 x86, ubuntu, and an ubuntu server – and lots of VMs.
• All my computers are named after characters from books.
• My photos are taken with a Canon 450D.
• I love…
  • creating things
  • learning things
  • surrealism
  • simplicity
  • imaginative people
  • fantasy novels
  • being outside
  • discovering new music
  • inquisitiveness
  • optimism
  • dry humour
  • laughing
  • pleasant surprises
  • thunder storms