Henning Makholm

2023-02-02  

I'm a computer scientist living in Copenhagen, Denmark. I used to be a reseacher at the Technical University of Denmark, and earlier at Heriot-Watt University and DIKU (University of Copenhagen, Denmark). These days I work a GitHub, helping maintain the CodeQL program analysis engine.

Things I have created

Random writings

I used to be about the last person on earth not to have a blog, but now even I have one.

Scientific papers

See my separate publications page.

Software

See my separate software page.

Plays

In 1996 I wrote a musical adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone. It was performed by Den Ny Scene, directed by myself. There used to be a web page about the production, but it is currently off-line. However, the script is online (pdf).

How to reach me

By email

henning@makholm.net

Phone

+45 29 61 12 24 (mobil)

Paper mail (home)

Henning Makholm
Damhus Boulevard 1 I tv
2610 Rĝdove
DENMARK

A brief history of me

See also the publications and software lists.

Basics

Born on August the 13th, 1973 in Copenhagen.
Single.
National of Denmark.

Education

Work

2018-present
Research Engineer at Semmle, since 2019 a part of GitHub.
2006-2017
Software developer at Octoshape, since 2015 a part of Akamai Technologies.
2005-2006
Postdoc at the Technical University of Denmark.
2003-2005
Post-doctoral research associate at Heriot-Watt University.
2000-2003
Ph.D. fellow (lĝnnet ph.d.-studerende), University of Copenhagen.
1997-1999
Research programmer in the TOPPS group.
1994-1998
Teaching assistant on various undergraduate courses.
1990-1996
Various free-lance programming jobs
1986?-1990
Newspaper and paper-spam delivery. Managed to get myself fired over attempts to unionize my colleagues. Boy, was I a subversive back then.

Peculiarities

Hobbies

Footwear

I like going barefoot. Yes, my feet sometimes get cold, but it's better than wearing shoes. When it's freezing I sometimes give in and wear boots for long walks.

Grumblemode

I am one of the few people who still use the word "homepage" to refer to the page that one sets one's browser to display at startup, rather than the page where one presents oneself to others. The page you are reading now is not my homepage. This is.

Erdös number

My Erdös number is known to be at most 4, witnessed by the following path:

Before I discovered that path, I had my Erdös number bounded by 5, using the paths:

And before even that I had a bound of 6, using the paths:

Thanks to the Erdös Number Project for providing the beginning of each path.

Relatives

Peter Makholm: Brother, born 1977

He writes a lot on Usenet (as do I), and does a variety of open-source stuff. He also studies computer science at DIKU. We're not actively hiding that we're brothers, but occasionally people seem to get confused. This paragraph should count as an explicit declaration of brotherhood.

Jesper Makholm: Brother, born 1986

Has no web presence of his own. Has posted in a few dk.* newsgroups, at my explicit insistence.

Not identical to the Jesper Makholm Byskov who is a computer scientist in Aarhus, and who at some point called himself only "Jesper Makholm" for twisty legal reasons having to do with letting his wife take Makholm as a middle name. I suppose we are related to the latter Jesper in some way but not close enough that I've been able to dig up how.

Leif Makholm and Bente Makholm: Parents, born 1952 (both of them)

They have no personal web pages either.

henning.makholm@gmail.com