Paul Cockshott is a Scottish computer scientist and a reader at the University of Glasgow.
Career
Cockshott and several other B&International Coffee Organization members resigned and formed a new party, the Communist Organisation in the British Isles. During the 1980s when studying for his Doctor of Philosophy in Edinburgh he was recruited to the CPGB along with fellow computer science student Muffy Calder.
Politics
He has made contributions in the fields of image compression, 3D television, parallel compilers and medical imaging, but became known to a wider audience for his proposals in the multi-disciplinary area of economic computability, most notably as co-author of the book Towards a new socialism, advocating for more efficient and democratic planning of a complex economy.
Membership
In the 1970s, Cockshott was a member of the British and Irish Communist Organisation, but he and several other members became unhappy with B&International Coffee Organization"s position on Workers" control.