John Graham-Cumming
On this episode of On the Metal, we interview John Graham-Cumming. Some folks might know John as the CTO of Cloudflare, but he is also a great source of knowledge about computer history including Turing, Babbage, and Lovelace. Join us as we step back in time and learn about how John got started in computers, hacking his school's network to make his own network faster, and all sorts of details of computing history.
You can find John on Twitter at [twitter.com/jgrahamc](https://twitter.com/jgrahamc).
- Babbage overview and the Difference Engine:
https://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/overview/
- Difference Engine No. 2 at the London Science Museum:
https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co526657/difference-engine-no-2-designed-by-charles-babbage-built-by-science-museum-difference-engine
- BBC Micro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro
- Sinclair ZX81: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81
- BBC Micro Advanced User Guide:
http://stardot.org.uk/mirrors/www.bbcdocs.com/filebase/essentials/BBC%20Microcomputer%20Advanced%20User%20Guide.pdf
- Sharp MZ-80K: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_MZ
- John's TED Talk, The greatest machine that never was: https://www.ted.com/talks/john_graham_cumming_the_greatest_machine_that_never_was
- Hilbert's Problems: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/HilbertsProblems.html
- Gödel's incompleteness theorems: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel-incompleteness/
- The Lovelace–De Morgan mathematical correspondence - A critical re-appraisal: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0315086017300319
- The mathematical correspondence of Ada Lovelace and Augustus De Morgan:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2867731.2867738
- Douglas Engelbart: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Douglas-Engelbart
- "Mother of all demos": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
- John's OSCON talk "Turing's Curse": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVZxkFAIziA
- Design of the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture:
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~krste/papers/EECS-2016-1.pdf
- Engines of Creation - The Coming Era of Nanotechnology: https://www.amazon.com/Engines-Creation-Nanotechnology-Scientific-Revolution/dp/1872180469/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
