Episode 86
Brunch with Brent: Quentin Stafford-Fraser
June 19th, 2022
1 hr 18 mins 59 secs
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About this Episode
Brent sits down with Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser, computer scientist, serial-entrepreneur, inventor (perhaps) of the webcam, Augmented Reality Ph.D. who ran the very first web server at the University of Cambridge, among much more. We explore topics including computer science as an art-form, the origins of the Raspberry Pi and T9 predictive text, philosophies around innovation and invention, challenging the patent system, and more.
Episode Links
- Quentin's Personal Website
- Quentin's Blog - Status-Q
- Telemarq
- SPARCstation - Wikipedia
- Raspberry Pi Foundation
- Raspberry Pi — Computing for everybody
- OpenStreetMap — a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license
- T9 (predictive text) - Wikipedia
- The GNU General Public License v3.0 - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
- Moore's law - Wikipedia
- One Laptop per Child - Wikipedia
- Nicholas Negroponte: One Laptop per Child, two years on - TED Talk
- Social Warming: The Dangerous and Polarising Effects of Social Media by Charles Arthur
- Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser - @quentinsf on Twitter
- Brent Gervais - @brentgervais on Twitter