John Fitch (computer scientist)
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Education and early life
Born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England in December 1945,[3] Fitch was educated at St John's College, Cambridge where he gained a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1971 supervised by David Barton.[9][10][11]
Career and research
Fitch spent six years at Cambridge as a postdoctoral researcher - winning the Adams Prize for Mathematics in 1975 for a joint essay with David Barton on Applications of algebraic manipulative systems to physics.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Fitch was a visiting professor the University of Utah for a year, then lectured at the University of Leeds for 18 months, before becoming professor and then chair of software engineering at the University of Bath,[11] which his biography claims is "a subject about which he knows little"; his 31-year career there lasted April 1980 – September 2011,[11] after which he was named an adjunct professor of music at Maynooth University.[12][13]
Fitch lectured for the module CM20029: The Essence of Compilers, as well as optional modules involving computer music and digital signal processing. According to his biography, "despite his long hair and beard,[14] and the uncertain spelling of his name, [he] was never a hippie".[15][16]
His former doctoral students include James Davenport[9] and Tom Crick.[17]
Personal life
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References
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- ↑ John Fitch's academic profile at Bath
- ↑ Musical Output of John ffitch
- ↑ John ffitch at GitHub
- ↑ Codemist Ltd, John's former company
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- Living people
- 1945 births
- Academics of Maynooth University
- Academics of the University of Bath
- Academics of the University of Leeds
- Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
- English computer scientists
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- University of Utah faculty