John Graham-Cumming

John Graham-Cumming
John Graham-Cumming in 2010
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (DPhil)
Known forPOPFile
The Geek Atlas[3]
Scientific career
InstitutionsCloudflare[1]
Electric Cloud[2]
Thesis The formal development of secure systems  (1992)
Doctoral advisorJeff W. Sanders
Websitewww.jgc.org

John Graham-Cumming is a British software engineer and writer[4] best known for starting a successful petition to the Government of the United Kingdom asking for an apology for its persecution of Alan Turing.[5] UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued the apology in September 2009.[6]As of 2020, Graham-Cumming is Chief Technology Officer at Cloudflare;[7][8][9] previously he co-founded Electric Cloud.[2]

  1. ^ Swan, Chris (2014). "John Graham-Cumming on Polyglot Programming and Geek History". infoq.com. C4Media Inc. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  2. ^ a b Melski, Eric (2009). "Seven lessons from seven years at Electric Cloud". electric-cloud.com. Archived from the original on 25 February 2020.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference tga was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Anon (2010). "John Graham-Cumming Profile". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  5. ^ Whiteman, Hilary (2009). "Petition seeks apology for Enigma code-breaker Turing". edition.cnn.com. CNN. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  6. ^ "PM's apology to codebreaker Alan Turing: we were inhumane", The Guardian, 10 September 2009
  7. ^ Graham-Cumming, John (2019). "Helping To Build Cloudflare, Part 1: How I came to work here". blog.cloudflare.com. Cloudflare.
  8. ^ Scammell, Robert (2020). "CTO Talk: Q&A with Cloudflare's John Graham-Cumming". verdict.co.uk.
  9. ^ Graham-Cumming, John (2019). "Helping To Build Cloudflare, Part 2: The Most Difficult Two Weeks". blog.cloudflare.com. Cloudflare.