Paweł Widera

School of Computing
Newcastle University
1 Science Square
Newcastle, NE4 5TG, UK

Office: 5.014
E-mail: name.surname@ncl.ac.uk
GPG key: 4096R/BBCFE170

Lecturer: PhD - Univerisity of Nottingham, UK
MSc, BSc - Poznań University of Technology, Poland
Research Interests: bioinformatics, evolutionary algorithms, heuristics and metaheuristics, interactive data visualisation, machine learning

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr

You don't use science to show that you are right, you use science to become right. Randall Munroe

General interests

In spite of being interested in everything strictly connected to the world of computers like programming, gaming, linuxing, networking and so on, I have some more general interests too.

Film - cinema, anime, amateur film (Turbo Kaczki formation)
Philosophy - the influence of technology on the culture and the concept of humanity
Free culture - copy left, free software, creative commons
Science - modern physics, space exploration, complexity theory
Artificial intelligence - learning, evolution, knowledge discovery, thinking machines
Board games - co-op, social deduction, strategy
Martial arts - spectator only these days (5th kup in Taekwon-Do long time ago)
Volleyball - NVL DIV3 (Blyth Valley/Nottingham Rockets)