John Graham-Cumming Explained

John Graham-Cumming
Workplaces:Cloudflare[1]
Electric Cloud
Alma Mater:University of Oxford (DPhil)
Thesis Title:The formal development of secure systems
Thesis Year:1992
Doctoral Advisor:Jeff W. Sanders
Known For:POPFile
The Geek Atlas

John Graham-Cumming is a British software engineer and writer[2] best known for starting a successful petition to the Government of the United Kingdom asking for an apology for its persecution of Alan Turing.[3] UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued the apology in September 2009., Graham-Cumming is Chief Technology Officer at Cloudflare;[4] [5] [6] previously he co-founded Electric Cloud.[7]

Education

Graham-Cumming was educated at the University of Oxford obtaining a BA in Mathematics and Computation and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Science in 1992 for research on formal methods for secure computing systems supervised by Jeff W. Sanders.[8] He was an undergraduate and graduate student at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.[8]

Career

Graham-Cumming is the original writer of POPFile, an open-source, cross-platform, machine learning email spam filtering program.[9] He is the author of The Geek Atlas, a travel book,[10] and The GNU Make book, a how-to technical manual for the GNU make software.[11] He also wrote and maintained a library of functions for GNU Make called the GNU Make Standard Library.[12]

In October 2010, he started an organization whose aim is to build Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine,[13] [14] [15] [16] known as Plan 28.[17] He has also campaigned for open-source software in science.[18] In 2014, he launched the MovieCode site on Tumblr, which aims to connect film screenshots to specific extracts of source code.[19] Some of the films and source code covered on the MovieCode website are explored in depth in the form of videos on his site Behind The Screens.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Swan. Chris. John Graham-Cumming on Polyglot Programming and Geek History. infoq.com. C4Media Inc.. 17 May 2016. 2014.
  2. Web site: John Graham-Cumming Profile. . 2010. Anon. 2013-10-03 . London.
  3. News: Petition seeks apology for Enigma code-breaker Turing . CNN. edition.cnn.com . Hilary . Whiteman. 2009. 2013-10-03.
  4. Web site: Helping To Build Cloudflare, Part 1: How I came to work here. John. Graham-Cumming. 2019. blog.cloudflare.com. Cloudflare.
  5. Web site: CTO Talk: Q&A with Cloudflare's John Graham-Cumming. Robert . Scammell. 2020. verdict.co.uk.
  6. Web site: Helping To Build Cloudflare, Part 2: The Most Difficult Two Weeks. 2019. blog.cloudflare.com. Cloudflare. John. Graham-Cumming.
  7. Web site: Seven lessons from seven years at Electric Cloud. electric-cloud.com. Eric. Melski. 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20200225110541/https://electric-cloud.com/blog/seven-lessons-from-seven-years-at-electric-cloud/. 2020-02-25.
  8. DPhi. University of Oxford. The formal development of secure systems. John. Graham-Cumming. 1992. . ox.ac.uk. 60063995.
  9. Web site: Schechter. Bruce. Spambusters. 3 November 2013. New Scientist. newscientist.com. 8 March 2003.
  10. Book: John Graham-Cumming . The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive. O'Reilly Media, Inc . Sebastopol, CA . 2009 . 978-0-596-52320-6 . 850983602. John Graham-Cumming.
  11. Book: Graham-Cumming, John. The GNU Make Book. 9781593276492. 2008. 896860365. No Starch Press.
  12. Web site: GNU Make Standard Library . 2023-06-10 . gmsl.jgc.org.
  13. News: Fildes . Jonathan . Campaign builds to construct Babbage Analytical Engine . BBC News. bbc.co.uk . 2010 . 2013-10-03.
  14. Web site: Graham . Duncan . A £400,000 PC downgrade: Rebooting Babbage's Analytical Engine . Wired. wired.com . 2011-03-03. 2024-08-23.
  15. Web site: The Greatest Machine That Never Was: John Graham-Cumming at TEDxImperialCollege . https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/4rzAL5YwFow . 2021-12-21 . live. YouTube. youtube.com . 2012-04-26 . 2013-10-03.
  16. Web site: John Graham-Cumming: The greatest machine that never was . TED. ted.com . 2013-10-03.
  17. Web site: Plan 28: Building Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. 2012-07-24. plan28.org.
  18. Ince . Darrel C. . Hatton . Leslie . Les Hatton. Graham-Cumming . John . John Graham-Cumming. 10.1038/nature10836 . The case for open computer programs . . 482 . 7386 . 485–488 . 2012 . 22358837. free .
  19. Web site: The sources of all that code you see in TV and movies . . itworld.com . 2014 . 13 January 2014 . Johnson, Phil . 11 January 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140111072221/http://www.itworld.com/security/398912/sources-all-code-you-see-tv-and-movies . dead .

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