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Vic Grout

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Vic Grout is Professor of Computing Futures at Wrexham Glyndŵr University; previously Professor of Network Algorithms, Head of Computing, Associate Dean & Director of the Centre for Applied Internet Research. He serves on the National Committee of the Council of Professors & Heads of Computing, as Chair of CPHC Wales, & the British Computer Society Information Privacy Expert Panel & Information Security Specialist Group Committee. He is a European Commission Horizon 2020 Expert & Ethics consultant.

Vic has worked in senior positions in academia & industry for nearly 30 years and published over 300 research papers, patents & books. His research covers several areas of computational mathematics & artificial intelligence, including large-scale
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Vic Grout In the short term, I usually go for a walk. I think that’s good practice anyway: writing too much, too quickly generally doesn’t produce good results …moreIn the short term, I usually go for a walk. I think that’s good practice anyway: writing too much, too quickly generally doesn’t produce good results for me. In the longer term, I don’t. I’ve plenty of other things to be doing so I come back to the writing when I’m ready. ‘Conscious’ took ten years, on and off!(less)
Vic Grout The freedom. I write what I want to. If people like it, that’s a (huge) bonus. But it doesn’t drive me.
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The Quiet Flame

A short story in three parts Part Three: Ella Her name was Ella Mbaye, and she lived on the edge of what had once been a great forest. The forest was thinner now. The rivers ran hotter, and the rains came in shouts, not songs. She was twelve years old, home-schooled, under solar lamps when […]
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“Capitalism’s final victory will be that, as it destroys us, it has us all blaming each other.”
Vic Grout, Conscious

“There is no 'business plan' for saving the planet!”
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“Capitalism’s final victory will be that, as it destroys us, it has us all blaming each other.”
Vic Grout, Conscious

“Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all.”
John Maynard Keynes

“There is no 'business plan' for saving the planet!”
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