Dictionary Engineer

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Richard Adams
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What does Pete Whitelock do?
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Re: Dictionary Engineer

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He's an engineer.
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He works for the Oxford University Press and does clever things with dictionary data that involve writing computer code. In terms of Countdown, I expect that means he writes software used by the production team to look up words more quickly that using the paper version. Or something like that.
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Guy Barry
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Re: Dictionary Engineer

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Pete Whitelock was one of my lecturers when I studied computational linguistics at the University of Edinburgh around 25 years ago - in fact I gave a couple of lectures in his place when he was absent! I think this is the first time I've seen the name of someone I've met in the credits of a TV programme.
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