Person: Pask, Andrew Gordon Speedie

Gordon Pask was an English polymath who made contributions to a wide variety of areas including cybernetics and psychology.

Percy was a partner in the firm of Pask, Cornish and Smart, a wholesale fruit business in Covent Garden, London.
Gordon was successful in attracting funding from a wide range of agencies (including the United States Air Force, Ministry of Defence, Department of Employment, and the Social Science Research Council).
Pask produced a variety of computers, not the conventional type of computer that will come to mind, but rather electro-mechanical, chemical and biological computers.
Let us give just a few example from the large number of papers and books which Pask wrote.
Pask received many honours for his remarkable contributions to education and to cybernetics.
An eloquent English leprechaun who dresses the Edwardian dandy, Pask sows awe wherever he goes.
Pask is one of the great international fast-talkers, conference-hopping round the globe from Utah to Washington to his project at the Brooklyn Children's Museum.
In a field full of brilliant eccentrics Pask has no difficulty standing out.

Born 28 June 1928, Derby, England. Died 29 March 1996, London, England.

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Origin England

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