Biography
Woodhouse was born in Romford and was educated at Salisbury Cathedral School and Oundle. He read Natural Sciences at Downing College at Cambridge, from 1951 and Medicine at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, completing his postgraduate research at the Medical Research Council’s applied psychology unit in Cambridge (where he built “Lettuce”, a logical truth computer).
In 1959 Woodhouse was called up for National Service and worked with the Royal Air Force at the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine, and then at the Farnborough radar research establishment.
After being discharged from military service Woodhouse worked as an author of novels and screen plays, a computer programmer and a stock trader.
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