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John Fitch | |
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| Born | John Peter Fitch 1945 (age 80–81)[3] |
| 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[1] |
| Doctoral students | Tom Crick[2] James Davenport[1] |
John Peter Fitch (also known asJohn ffitch) is acomputer scientist,mathematician andcomposer, who has worked onrelativity,planetary astronomy,computer algebra andLisp.[4] AlongsideVictor Lazzarini and Steven Yi, he is the project leader foraudio programming languageCsound,[5] having a leading role in its development since the early 1990s; and he was a director of Codemist Ltd,[3] which developed theNorcroft C compiler.[6][7][8][9][10]
Born inBarnsley,Yorkshire, England in December 1945,[3] Fitch was educated atSt John's College, Cambridge where he gained aPhD from theUniversity of Cambridge in 1971 supervised by David Barton.[1][11][12]
Fitch spent six years at Cambridge as apostdoctoral researcher - winning theAdams Prize for Mathematics in 1975 for a joint essay with David Barton onApplications of algebraic manipulative systems tophysics.[citation needed]
Fitch was avisiting professor theUniversity of Utah for a year, thenlectured at theUniversity of Leeds for 18 months, before becomingprofessor and then chair ofsoftware engineering at theUniversity of Bath,[12] which hisbiography claims is "a subject about which he knows little"; his 31-year career there lasted April 1980 – September 2011,[12] after which he was named anadjunct professor of music atMaynooth University.[13][14]
Fitch lectured for the module CM20029: The Essence ofCompilers, as well as optional modules involvingcomputer music anddigital signal processing. According to his biography, "despite his long hair and beard,[15] and the uncertain spelling of his name, [he] was never a hippie".[16][17]
His former doctoral students includeJames Davenport[1] andTom Crick.[2]
Fitch is married tohistorian Audrey Fitch.[citation needed]
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