Dr. Matt Smith is senior lecturer in computing at Technological University (TU) Dublin, Ireland, specializing in interactive multimedia interaction including web applications, extended reality (XR), and e-learning systems. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business computing (University of Huddersfield, UK), a master's in artificial intelligence (University of Aberdeen, Scotland), and a PhD in computational musicology (Open University, UK). He has been teaching for over 30 years. In the mid-2000s, at the request of his students, he switched the focus of his web development courses from Java to PHP, and he’s been a fan of PHP and the Symfony open source web framework ever since.
