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]
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- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/john-graham-cumming John Graham-Cumming The Guardian
- ^ http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/09/01/alan.turing.petition/
- ^ Spambusters - 08 March 2003 - New Scientist
- ^ 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.
- ^ http://www.jgc.org/blog/2008/06/gnu-make-unleashed-release.html
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11530905
- ^ http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/04/start/a-400000-pound-pc-downgrade
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rzAL5YwFow TEDxImperialCollege - John Graham-Cumming - The Greatest Machine That Never Was
- ^ http://www.ted.com/talks/john_graham_cumming_the_greatest_machine_that_never_was.html TED Talk at TEDxImperial
- ^ "Plan 28: Building Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine". Retrieved 2012-07-24.
- ^ 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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