John Graham-Cumming

In July I withdrew from sale my self-published book "GNU Make Unleashed" because I was working on a new edition. That book is to be published by No Starch Press with the title "The GNU Make Book".


Details are not online yet but the text has been revised, edited, had a professional technical review and brought up to date with GNU make 4.1.

Over the last few years I've done a number of talks that fall broadly under the umbrella of "History of Computing". Here are some videos for your enjoyment.
TEDxImperialCollege 2012: The Greatest Machine That Never Was Computer science began in the '30s ... the 1830s. John Graham-Cumming tells the story of Charles Babbage's mechanical, steam-powered "analytical engine" and how Ada Lovelace, mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron, saw beyond its simple computational abilities to imagine the future of computers.


StrataConf 2012: The Great Railway Caper The Great Railway Caper: Big Data in 1955


OSCON 2013: Turing's Curse Looking back on 30 years of programming: there's nothing new since 1983. Examples and implications.



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