John Fitch (computer scientist)

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John Fitch is a computer scientist, mathematician and composer. Born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England in 1945, he was educated at Cambridge. According to his (un-)official biography, "despite his long hair and beard, and the uncertain spelling of his name, was never a hippie"^[1].

Currently, he holds the Chair of Software Engineering at Bath, which his biography claims is "a subject about which he knows little". John has worked with relativity, planetary astronomy, computer algebra and LISP. He won the Adams Prize for Mathematics (1973/74) for a joint essay with Dr. David Barton entitled "Applications of algebraic manipulative systems to physics".

John Fitch is also the project leader for Csound at sourceforge. He has had a leading role in the development of the software since the early 1990s.