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John English (email: je@brighton.ac.uk or J.English@brighton.ac.uk) is a Senior Lecturer in Computing at the University of Brighton. He has been teaching at the University since 1985. His interests cover programming systems in general, including programming languages, operating systems, computer architecture, hardware design, networks, real-time systems and object-oriented programming. He is the author of "Ada 95: The Craft of Object-Oriented Programming" (Prentice Hall 1996; ISBN 0-13-230350-7) as well as several papers on object-oriented programming. He also has a number of active consultancy links with industry to prevent him from becoming "someone who doesn't know how to do" who teaches. |
John is a member of the BCS and the
ACM.
He also attends as many
Science Fiction conventions
as he can afford to, as well as being a keen bar billiards player in the
Brighton & District league (it being no coincidence that both these
interests have connections with the consumption of real ale
:-).
He also produces cryptic crosswords with a science-fictional bent for
Matrix, the newsletter of the British Science Fiction Association,
and has published a book of these crosswords entitled "Cruciform
Variations" (Beccon Press 1995; ISBN 1-870824-30-X). This CD
includes an example of one such puzzle.
He believes that information is a resource that should be freely
available to all, and this CD is an expression of this belief.
He would like to thank all those who feel
similarly and have given permission for their work to be redistributed
here. He feels that the Information Age requires us all to do our best
to be net producers (if you'll pardon the pun :-) rather
than sitting back and being passive consumers,
and that monetary rewards should not be the be-all and end-all of everything.
Go on, contribute something that you can do and enrich yourself in
the new informational economy of the world!
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