| John Wilcock | John Wilcock took an honours degree in Physics at The Queen's College, Oxford, in 1961, and then spent seven years in the British computer industry. He was awarded his doctorate in 1972 for a thesis on computer applications in archaeology, having developed the techniques as both a computer scientist and part-time archaeologist since 1961. His academic career since 1969 has been with the Department of Computing, North Staffordshire Polytechnic. He founded the Research Centre for Computer Archaeology in 1974. He has been a member of the Executive, Council and Archaeological Science Committee of the Council for British Archaeology; a member of the International Radiocarbon Database Commission; and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society. |