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Dictionary Engineer
Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 9:53 pm
by Richard Adams
What does Pete Whitelock do?
Re: Dictionary Engineer
Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 12:08 am
by Countdown Team
He's an engineer.
Re: Dictionary Engineer
Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 8:46 pm
by Mike Brown
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.
Re: Dictionary Engineer
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 8:45 am
by Guy Barry
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.