John Fitch (computer scientist)
John Fitch | |
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| Born | John Peter Fitch 1945 (age 79–80) |
| 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 |
| Doctoral students | Tom Crick James Davenport |
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. Alongside Victor Lazzarini and Steven Yi, he is the project leader for audio programming language Csound, having a leading role in its development since the early 1990s; and he was a director of Codemist Ltd, which developed the Norcroft C compiler.