John Fitch (computer scientist)
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John Peter Fitch (also known as John ffitch) is a computer scientist, mathematician and composer, who has worked on relativity, planetary astronomy, computer algebra and Lisp.[4] Alongside Victor Lazzarini and Steven Yi, he is the project leader for audio programming language Csound,[5] having a leading role in its development since the early 1990s; and he was a director of Codemist Ltd,[1] which developed the Norcroft C compiler.[6][7][8][9][10]
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John Fitch | |
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Born | John Peter Fitch 1945 (age 78ā79)[1] |
Other names | John ffitch |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Awards | Adams Prize (1975) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of Bath University of Leeds Maynooth University |
Thesis | An algebraic manipulator (1971) |
Doctoral advisor | David Barton[2] |
Doctoral students | Tom Crick[3] James Davenport[2] |
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