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This is me on a visit to Japan: the character on the left of the picture in the green anorak is my bodyguard :-).
The threats of climate change:
DESERTEC-UK, From Greenhouse to Green House, Campaign against Climate Change
Gerry Wolff
- Qualifications
- CV/Résumé
- Research Interests
- Other Interests
- From Greenhouse to Green House
- DESERTEC-UK
- Journal of Radical Ideas
Qualifications
- BA Hons (Cantab)
- PhD (Wales)
- Chartered Engineer
- Member of the British Computer Society (CITP)
CV/Résumé
- Studied 'natural sciences' (Psychology, Zoology, Geology, Botany) at Cambridge University. Horace Barlow's lectures about economical coding in brains and nervous systems left a big impression which (eventually) led me to my current research interests (below).
- School teaching (Biology) then training in educational psychology.
- Migrated into research on first language learning using computer modelling techniques (University Hospital of Wales and University of Wales, Cardiff).
- Continued the same research with related teaching at the University of Dundee. An accumulation of evidence pointed to the importance of information compression in language learning.
- Had a 'brain storm' and went into the computing industry (IBM and then Praxis Systems). Learned a lot about computing and about management techniques. Began to realise that information compression was relevant to a range of issues in computing.
- Returned to academic work (in the School of Informatics, Bangor). The main focus of research has been developing the SP theory of computing and cognition (Computing as Compression).
- After 15 years, I have managed to put the main 'planks' of the SP theory in place. Further development of the ideas and development of their many applications is continuing at CognitionResearch.org.
- Since 2006, I have been Coordinator of DESERTEC-UK.
Research Interests
A dialectic deconstruction of an eclectic postmodernistic and universal simulacrum of hyper-reality - a poststructuralist logocentric semiology beyond machine-aesthetic epistemology.
- Computing as Compression
- Cognition as Compression
- Language Learning as Compression
- Project Management: Boehm's Spiral Model and developments thereof (The New Spiral Model).
Personal
I have two children by my first marriage.
My wife and partner is Marianne Jones (see picture below).
Other Interests
When are we going to stop wrecking the planet? (DESERTEC-UK, From Greenhouse to Green House, Campaign against Climate Change, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace), swimming, walking, cooking (now and then), music, films, jokes ....
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Which way shall we go? I can remember that the name of the village began with 'Llan ...'!
Last updated: 2009-05-30 (ISO 8601)