{"id":1021,"date":"2016-11-04T10:45:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T10:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2016-11-04T10:49:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T10:49:49","slug":"daniel-de-oliveira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2016\/11\/04\/daniel-de-oliveira\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel de Oliveira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Computing is sad to report the sudden death of PhD student Daniel de Oliveira on 2 November 2016.<\/p>\n<p>After a long career in the computer industry in Brazil, France and the USA, working for Apple and the Brazilian Space Agency among others, Daniel realized a long-held ambition to study for a PhD at the University of Kent, where he was in his fourth year of study.<\/p>\n<p>Much of Daniel\u2019s work has been in the foundation and support of communities of practice in computing, helping professionals to adopt new technologies and schoolchildren to develop life-changing skills. His work with Java User Groups led both to his PhD work and to his recognition by Oracle as the first ever individual recipient of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/science\/8473\/international-individual-award-for-kent-student-of-java\">Duke\u2019s Choice Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Computing is sad to report the sudden death of PhD student Daniel de Oliveira on 2 November 2016. After a long career &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2016\/11\/04\/daniel-de-oliveira\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5321,"featured_media":796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[149991],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}