Computer Architecture

Dr. Charles Fox is a Senior Lecturer, teaching Computer Architecture at the University of Lincoln, UK, and a visiting lecturer at the University of Leeds, UK. The University of Lincoln holds a TEF Gold award for teaching quality, the highest available in the UK. Dr Fox has received teaching awards including the university's Teaching Excellence Award, a Programme Leader award, and shortlistings from Student's Unions for Inspirational Teacher of the Year and PhD Supervisor of the Year. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), and author of the Springer textbook Data Science for Transport. He learned to program the BBC Micro from age 8, then studied Computer Science at Cambridge with many of its designers.  He has an MSc in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh and DPhil in Information Engineering from the University of Oxford. He has worked as a hedge fund quant and data science consultant. His current research applies machine learning to robotics, using a mix of architectures including embedded, GPU, and distributed systems. He hated architecture as a student but later found it to be quite useful. His teaching style assumes students may feel similar so it constructs the new concepts from more student-friendly ideas including history, games, music, retro computing, hacking and making.