- Source: John Graham-Cumming
John Graham-Cumming is a British software engineer and writer best known for starting a successful petition to the Government of the United Kingdom asking for an apology for its persecution of Alan Turing. UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued the apology in September 2009.As of 2020, Graham-Cumming is Chief Technology Officer at Cloudflare; previously he co-founded Electric Cloud.
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. He was an undergraduate and graduate student at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
Career
Graham-Cumming is the original writer of POPFile, an open-source, cross-platform, machine learning email spam filtering program. He is the author of The Geek Atlas, a travel book, and The GNU Make book, a how-to technical manual for the GNU make software. He also wrote and maintained a library of functions for GNU Make called the GNU Make Standard Library.
In October 2010, he started an organization whose aim is to build Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, known as Plan 28. He has also campaigned for open-source software in science. In 2014, he launched the MovieCode site on Tumblr, which aims to connect film screenshots to specific extracts of source code. 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.
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Dinas Intelijen Rahasia
- Anna and the Apocalypse
- Go (bahasa pemrograman)
- Chemical Society
- Heart of Midlothian F.C.
- Daftar penerima Salib Victoria
- Bintang neutron
- Anna Atkins
- Daftar arkeolog
- M (James Bond)
- John Graham-Cumming
- John Ousterhout
- Bayesian poisoning
- POPFile
- Ada Lovelace
- Cloudflare
- List of programmers
- Cumming (surname)
- Electric Cloud
- Analytical engine
