The incredibly boring and
thankfully brief (Auto)Biography of Owen Cliffe
Born in Preston, Lancashire, UK on 27/7/1979
at some ungodly hour of the morning. Second of 3 children with an
older brother and a younger sister, I am very distantly related§ to Terry Nation
(the inventor of the Daleks and Blake's 7). We moved
to Stapleton,
north of Bristol after a
couple of years (don't remember when (probably 1982/3)) where I
attended the nursery and infants of Begbrook Primary School
. In 1985 we departed this fair isle and moved to the vicinity of
Newark, Delaware in the USA, where I
attended John R.
Downes Elementary School for a year (I also briefly attended an
Ascend * class for one day a week at
another school who's name completely escapes me). In 1986 we then
moved to the municipality of Overijse near Brussels (in Belgium)
where I attended the British
School Of Brussels until the christmas of 1992, at which point we
moved to Dorridge, Solihull in the West-Midlands, UK. I then attended
Arden School, Knowle, where Ben Powderhill and I set up the (now
defunct) Quality Genius
Software company. I left Arden in 1995 with some GCSEs and went on to
do a few A-Levels
and A/S-Levels at Solihull
Sixth Form College before departing Solihull for the University of Southampton in 1997
where I graduated with my B.Sc. Degree in Computer Science in
2000. During that time I also worked briefly for British Telecom and Cambro. After university I moved to
the beautiful city of Bath
where I worked at EduServ full
time for about 18 months, before starting my Ph.D. in
Computer Science in 2001. In 2001 we dissolved Quality Genius software
and transfered our software rights to ISDE who retain them to date.