John Fitch (computer scientist)

John Fitch
Born
John Peter Fitch

1945 (age 78–79)[3]
Other namesJohn ffitch
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
AwardsAdams Prize (1975)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Bath
University of Leeds
Maynooth University
ThesisAn algebraic manipulator (1971)
Doctoral advisorDavid Barton[1]
Doctoral studentsTom Crick[2]
James Davenport[1]

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]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference mathgene was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Crick, Thomas (2009). Superoptimisation: provably optimal code generation using answer set programming. bath.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Bath. OCLC 757105245. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.518295. Free access icon
  3. ^ a b "Officers - Codemist Limited, Company number 02197915". companieshouse.gov.uk. Companies House. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  4. ^ John Fitch at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  5. ^ https://csound.github.io
  6. ^ John Fitch's home page at Bath (archived)
  7. ^ John Fitch's academic profile at Bath
  8. ^ Musical Output of John ffitch
  9. ^ John ffitch at GitHub
  10. ^ Codemist Ltd, John's former company