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John Fitch (computer scientist)
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,[3] which developed the Norcroft C compiler.[6][7][8][9][10] Education and early lifeBorn 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.[1][11][12] Career and researchFitch 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.[citation needed] 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,[12] which his biography 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 an adjunct professor of music at Maynooth University.[13][14] 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,[15] and the uncertain spelling of his name, [he] was never a hippie".[16][17] His former doctoral students include James Davenport[1] and Tom Crick.[2] Personal lifeFitch is married to historian Audrey Fitch.[citation needed] References
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