Background
WESTCOTT, John was born on November 3, 1920 in London.
scientist Professor of Computing
WESTCOTT, John was born on November 3, 1920 in London.
City and Guilds College, London, Imperial College London and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America.
His career began in radar research during World World War World War II After a year in Germany with the Allied Commission, he obtained a scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where many scientists returning from the services were addressing the early possibilities of computer applications. He researched servo-mechanisms at Imperial College London, where he headed the new Department of Computing and Control from 1966. In the 1970s and 1980s he also worked on macro-economic modelling and computer modelling for policy-evaluation.
Royal Society]
He was the first to lecture on the new field of cybernetics in Britain and was a member of the Ratio Club with Grey Walter, Alan Turing, Giles Brindley and others from various fields, who met between 1949 and 1952 to discuss brain mechanisms and related issues.
Married Helen Fay Morgan in 1950.