Michael is a freelance software developer and scientific researcher. He is involved in a range of free and open source software projects, including the GNU FM music community platform, the Jokosher audio editor and the GStreamer multimedia framework. Michael is a strong supporter of open mobile platforms having written a number of applications and tutorials for OpenMoko, Maemo, MeeGo, Sailfish and Tizen devices. He also holds a PhD in artificial intelligence and developmental robotics from Aberystwyth University and is the lead developer of the PSchema machine learning framework.