Please answer the following question: Facts: - thesis url: http://ethos.bl.uk/orderdetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314559 - thesis year: 1992 - workplaces: university mit csail university of southampton university of bristol of leeds university of sussex hewlett-packard deutsche bank - birth date: 1966 - thesis title: animate in computational neuroethology vision in an artificial fly : a study - name: david t. cliff - image: davecliff.jpg - alma mater: university of leeds university of sussex Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of dave cliff -lrb- computer scientist -rrb- .
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david t. '' dave '' cliff fbcs citp -lrb- born 1966 -rrb- is a professor in the department of computer science at the university of bristol and director of the uk lscits -lrb- large scale complex it systems -rrb- initiative .cliff is the inventor of the seminal '' zip '' trading algorithm , one of the first of the current generation of autonomous adaptive algorithmic trading systems , which was demonstrated to outperform human traders in research published in 2001 by ibm .