Julian Todd
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Julian Todd is a British computer programmer and activist for freedom of information. He works in Liverpool.
He was inventor and co-founder of Public Whip
with Francis Irving
. And also the affiliated TheyWorkForYou
website, a project which parses raw Hansard
data to track how members vote in the UK Parliament. Initially risking prosecution for re-using the raw data which was under Crown copyright, they were later successful in getting permission to use it. He has since extended this concept of parsing political transcripts to the General Assembly and Security Council of the United Nations to establish UNdemocracy.com in 2007.
Todd also writes science fiction
short stories, and is cited as a major inspiration for the Mundane science fiction movement.
doi:10.1016/S0010-4485(00)00136-6
He was inventor and co-founder of Public Whip
Public Whip
The Public Whip is a parliamentary informatics project that analyses and publishes the voting history of MPs in the Parliament of the United Kingdom....
with Francis Irving
Francis Irving
Francis Irving is a 36 year old British computer programmer and activist for freedom of information.Francis Irving developed TortoiseCVS.He co-founded Public Whip with Julian Todd and became a developer of the affiliated TheyWorkForYou website, a project which parses raw Hansard data to track how...
. And also the affiliated TheyWorkForYou
TheyWorkForYou
TheyWorkForYou is a website run by mySociety, a project of registered charity UK Citizens Online Democracy, and is a tool for political campaigners and those interested in the Parliamentary activities of UK MPs, Lords, and Northern Ireland MLAs....
website, a project which parses raw Hansard
Hansard
Hansard is the name of the printed transcripts of parliamentary debates in the Westminster system of government. It is named after Thomas Curson Hansard, an early printer and publisher of these transcripts.-Origins:...
data to track how members vote in the UK Parliament. Initially risking prosecution for re-using the raw data which was under Crown copyright, they were later successful in getting permission to use it. He has since extended this concept of parsing political transcripts to the General Assembly and Security Council of the United Nations to establish UNdemocracy.com in 2007.
Todd also writes science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
short stories, and is cited as a major inspiration for the Mundane science fiction movement.
Publications
A machining strategy for toolmaking, A. Flutter and J. Todddoi:10.1016/S0010-4485(00)00136-6
External links
- Julian Todd at World of SpectrumWorld of SpectrumWorld of Spectrum is a website devoted to cataloging and archiving material for the ZX Spectrum home computer popular in the 1980s, and has been officially endorsed by Amstrad which holds the rights to the ZX Spectrum brand...
- Freesteel - blog with Martin Dunschen focused on CAMCamA cam is a rotating or sliding piece in a mechanical linkage used especially in transforming rotary motion into linear motion or vice-versa. It is often a part of a rotating wheel or shaft that strikes a lever at one or more points on its circular path...
programming and computational geometry