Marcus Wigan has been involved in computer use since 1961 using Mercury Autocode,

but after exhausting himself with Prolog, has reverted to Fortran...

He has had a number of Professorial titles in UK and Australia (see website),

and has become an inveterate collector of diverse qualifications (and old computers),

but after a drought of 25 years without any study has found this new habit hard to break.

He has had an active role in privacy and surveillance issues and civil liberties for

many years, as part of the Australian Privacy Foundation and the Research Network

for a Secure Australia. His major distinctions in life are (a) being the joint founder

in 1961 of the still-flourishing Oxford University Speculative Fiction Group

(OUSFG: science fiction plus fantasy) and (b) having secured 11th place

(and thus two World Championship points) in the 125cc World Champonship Motorcycle

racing round at Silverstone in 1975. The rest is downhill from there.

His peripheral interests include a continuing interest in nuclear physics (DPhil in 1967)

and the distorted manner in which scientific materials are represented to the public,

sustainable transport, policy formation and negotiation and the role of NGOs and

contestable evidence based policy as a means of empowering the community.

In IT he has published on the organisational aspects of data ownership, hypertext,

expert systems, computer cooperative work (in 1981 he was on both the EIES network at NJIT

and the Telctr conferencing system at IASA in Austria), formal metadata systems,

large scale data/document/communications/thematic mapping Repositories and has a strong

current interest in information ethics and intellectual property law impacts on computing,

communications and civil rights.

Marcus joined the EFA Board in 2009, and became Vice Chair in 2011.

Email [email protected]
Phone 0421 001 699
website www.mwigan.com