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. 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.

John Fitch
Born
John Peter Fitch

1945 (age 7879)
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
Doctoral studentsTom Crick
James Davenport
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