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Gerry Wolff

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• Qualifications
• CV/Résumé
• Research Interests
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• From Greenhouse to Green House
• Journal of Radical Ideas

• BA Hons (Cantab)
• PhD (Wales)
• Chartered Engineer
• Member of the British Computer Society (CITP)

• 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.uk.

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).

When are we going to stop wrecking the planet? (TREC-UK, From Greenhouse to Green House, Campaign against Climate Change, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace), swimming, walking, cooking (now and then), music, films, jokes ....

Which way shall we go? I can remember that the name of the village began with 'Llan ...'!

Last updated: 2007-03-08 (ISO 8601)