My bio

Occasionally I get asked for some sort of official bio. Here's one people can use:

John Graham-Cumming is computer programmer and author. He studied mathematics and computation at Oxford and stayed for a doctorate in computer security. As a programmer he has worked in Silicon Valley and New York, and the UK and France. His open source POPFile program won a Jolt Productivity Award in 2004.

He is the author of a travel book for scientists called The Geek Atlas and has written articles for The Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The San Francisco Chronicle and New Scientist.

He is CTO of Causata. He can be found on the web at jgc.org and on Twitter as @jgrahamc.

If you've heard of him at all, it's likely because in 2009 he successfully petitioned the British Government to apologize for the mistreatment of British mathematician Alan Turing.