John V. Tucker#
| Membership Number: | 2962 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www-compsci.swan.ac.uk/~csjvt |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2007 - 2011 Head of School of Physical Sciences, Swansea University
- 1994 - 2007 Head of Department of Computer Science, Swansea University
- 1989 - present Professor of Computer Science, Swansea University
- 1985 - 1989 Reader in Computer Science, University of Leeds
- 1981 - 1985 Lecturer in Computer Studies, University of Leeds
- 1981 Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) Research Assistantship, School of Mathematics, University of Bristol
- 1979 - 1980 Research Fellowship, Department of Computer Science, Mathematical Centre/CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 1978 Research Assistantship, Mathematics Institute, University of Oslo
- 1977 - 1978 Fellowship from the European Programme of The Royal Society, London, held at Mathematics Institute, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Fields of Scholarship
- Theory of synchronous algorithms with digital and analogue components, and its applications
- History of science
- Physical foundations of computation
- History of computing
- Computability theories
- History of mathematics
- Algebraic specification of data and programs
- Computational foundations of physics
Honours and Awards
- 2010 - Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. The first Council of the Society, and then elected by the Council to be its first General Secretary 2010-13
- 2007 - present Elected Member British Computer Society-Institute of Engineers and Technologists joint UK Computing Research Committee, December
- 2006 Elected Trustee of the Institute of Welsh Affairs, Wales' leading think tank and policy studies institute. See http://www.iwa.org.uk/
- 1998 Elected Fellow of British Computer Society
