February 6th 1967
Born in Monnickendam, The Netherlands
October 1972
Moved to Westzaan (also in the Netherlands) where my parents still
live
August 1978
Entered "O.S.G. Rooswijk" high school
August 1984
Entered the Nijmegen University to study computer science.
Specialisations: compiler design, functional languages, databases
and information systems, artificial intelligence and logic
September 1984
Started playing shogi at the Nijmegen Shogi club.
August 1986
European Champion Shogi (first time).
August 25th 1989
Graduated from the Nijmegen University.
Title master's thesis: Taking a RISC: the
implementation of functional languages, a description of a
compiler built
for a functional language developed at the the faculty of natural
sciences in
Nijmegen.
September 1989
Started as a graduate student.
The research was done at the
Nijmegen
Institute of Cognitive
science and Information technology (NICI), part of the
university of Nijmegen.
The goal of the research done during this period was to assess the
feasibility
of diagnostic techniques for electronic circuits to an informal
psychological
domain, specifically to the diagnostic domain of children having
problems
learning to read.
July 1990
First visit to Japan.
August 9th 1992
European Champion Shogi (second time).
June 1993
Second visit to Japan.
I was invited to play in the amateur Ryu-O tournament, where the
strongest
Japanese amateur players of each prefecture meet. Lost both games in
the
preliminaries.
March 7th 1994-February 3th 1995
Served as an officer in the Dutch army.
November 16th 1994
Received my Ph.D. in Cognitive Science.
Title of my Ph.D. thesis: Model-based diagnosis in the
ill-defined domain of beginning reading.
August 27th 1995
European Champion Shogi (third time).
The research conducted here is aimed at human pattern recognition.
As a sample domain Shogi is used.
October 1st 1997
Became a temporal ETL employee (three years).
June 27th-28th 1998
Invited to participate in the amateur Ryu-O tournament for the
second time.
I managed to win one game against the representative from Okinawa.
A report on this tournament can be found
here
May 22nd 1999
Married Hiroko Tajima at the Meguro Gajoen in Tokyo.
January 29th 2004
At 6:47 in the morning our daughter Lisa (2752 grams) was born.
February 5th 2006
At 16:20 in the afternoon our second daughter Mai (3416 grams) was
born.
