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John Graham-Cumming
Image of John Graham-Cumming.jpg
Alma mater University of Oxford
Thesis The formal development of secure systems (1992)
Doctoral advisor Jeff W. Sanders
Website
www.jgc.org

John Graham-Cumming is a British programmer and writer[1] best known for having originated a successful petition to the British Government asking for an apology for its persecution of Alan Turing.[2]

Graham-Cumming is the original writer of POPFile, an open-source, cross-platform e-mail filtering program.[3] He is the author of The Geek Atlas, a travel book,[4] and GNU Make Unleashed, a how-to technical manual for the GNU make program.[5]

In October 2010, he started an organization whose aim is to build Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine [6][7][8][9] known as Plan 28[10] and has also campaigned for open-source software in science.[11]

References [edit]

  1. ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/john-graham-cumming John Graham-Cumming The Guardian
  2. ^ http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/09/01/alan.turing.petition/
  3. ^ Spambusters - 08 March 2003 - New Scientist
  4. ^ John Graham-Cumming (2009). The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, Inc. ISBN 0-596-52320-3. 
  5. ^ http://www.jgc.org/blog/2008/06/gnu-make-unleashed-release.html
  6. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11530905
  7. ^ http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/04/start/a-400000-pound-pc-downgrade
  8. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rzAL5YwFow TEDxImperialCollege - John Graham-Cumming - The Greatest Machine That Never Was
  9. ^ http://www.ted.com/talks/john_graham_cumming_the_greatest_machine_that_never_was.html TED Talk at TEDxImperial
  10. ^ "Plan 28: Building Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine". Retrieved 2012-07-24. 
  11. ^ Ince, D. C.; Hatton, L.; Graham-Cumming, J. (2012). "The case for open computer programs". Nature 482 (7386): 485–488. doi:10.1038/nature10836. PMID 22358837.  edit

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Gizmodo
Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:03:15 -0700

Programmer John Graham-Cumming tells a fascinating story about what coding like was back in 1985. Unlike today's programmers who wear hoodies, down energy drinks and use a paper thin computer, programmers in 1985 had to code by hand... with ...
 
Tecmundo
Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:49:56 -0700

Quem vê os programadores de empresas como o Facebook escrevendo códigos em máquinas modernas não sabe o quanto a vida deles é fácil em comparação com a de seus predecessores. Prova disso foi dada pelo programador John Graham-Cumming, ...

Gizmodo

Gizmodo
Thu, 02 May 2013 02:04:23 -0700

D'ailleurs, le développeur John Graham-Cumming a désiré témoigner de cette époque désormais révolue. Il a pris le temps de s'épancher sur les façons de faire d'alors, où le papier et le crayons avaient alors une place légitime sur n'importe quel bureau.
 
Prog.Hu
Tue, 30 Apr 2013 03:27:59 -0700

... korábban, a '80-as években. Főleg akkor, ha az ember nem valami otthoni használatra szánt számítógépre, hanem valami kevésbé interaktív célszerkezetre fejlesztett - mint ahogy tette ezt ma kiemelt posztunk szerzője, John Graham-Cumming is.
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