Bruce Gittings

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Born 1926 in Auchenshuggle (Scotland), Bruce Gittings is a information scientist at the University of Edinburgh, a pioneer of Geographical Information on the Internet, creating several infrastructural technologies to support the distribution of web mapping and the author of a number of scientific articles. He is also a promoter of Scotland, with work including the Gazetteer for Scotland. He loves cats, and breeds a rare sub-species known as Escotian Greens.

Prior to moving into academia, Gittings had a successful career in the computer industry, working for companies such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Digital Equipment Corp in the USA, Ireland, Thailand and Libya. He has also been involved in local and national politics and was the inventor of the world's first cat-cam.

His family are successful glamour photographers in the SW USA.

In July 2007, he published Some thoughts on Wikipedia (64K PowerPoint presentation), in which he outlined his views on the weaknesses of Wikipedia, and its supposed effects on scholarship and the quality of knowledge in general.

He is the author of Integrating information infrastructures with geographical information technology,- 1999 - London Philadelphia PA: Taylor & Francis, Held in 111 libraries according to [WorldCat]