Jack Cole

Alfred Jack Cole (1925 – May 30, 1997) was a professor at the School of Computer Science, University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He is credited with building on the establishing of the School of Computer Science at St Andrews.

He initiated the Distinguished Lecture Series in 1969. This series kept costs lower than similar conferences, with the intention of exposing students and others to leading edge topics. Costs were reduced through industry sponsorship and support from the university's School of Computer Science.

Jack Cole Building

To recognize his service, the school moved to the new Jack Cole Building in 2004. This was formally opened on .

Personal life

Cole's interests included cats, hill walking, home brewing, folk music (and concertina playing), golf, gardening and football. He was a supporter of East Fife F.C. "Plane and Stereographic Projections of Convex Polyhedra from Minimal Information", 1966 "A note on peano polygons and gray codes", 1985 "Direct transformations between sets of integers and hilbert polygons", 1986 "Compaction Techniques for Raster Scan Graphics using Space-filling Curves", 1987