Steve Vickers (computer scientist) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 29/03/2019

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00:01:23 1 Education
00:01:45 2 Sinclair Research
00:02:45 3 Academia
00:03:17 4 Research
00:05:21 5 Bibliography



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Steve Vickers (born c. 1953) is a British mathematician and computer scientist. In the early 1980s, he wrote ROM firmware and manuals for three home computers, the Sinclair ZX81 and ZX Spectrum and the Jupiter Ace. The latter was produced by Jupiter Cantab, a short-lived company Vickers formed together with Richard Altwasser, after the two had left Sinclair Research. Since the late 1980s, Vickers has been an academic in the field of geometric logic, writing over 30 papers in scholarly journals on mathematical aspects of computer science. His book Topology via Logic has been influential over a range of fields (extending even to theoretical physics, where Christopher Isham of Imperial College London has cited Vickers as an early influence on his work on topoi and quantum gravity). In October 2018, he retired as senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham. As announced on his University homepage, he continues to supervise PhD students at the university and focus on his research.