Physicist, Computer Scientist, Entrepeneur. Founder/CEO interested in causality preserving networks for building resilient decentralized  infrastructures.

Founder of the ItsAboutTime.club

Paul has served: on Apple's Infrastructure team, as VP/CTO for VERITAS Software; VP/Chief Architect for Storage Systems at Quantum Corporation; Distinguished Engineer, Director of Architecture & Performance and Chief Scientist for IR at Sun Microsystems. 

Paul has a Ph.D in Physics from University College London, and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program.

Paul’s lifelong interest in dependable computing came from working with NASA, designing computer systems & software for an experiment which performed extraordinarily well on flight 51F of the Space Shuttle.

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References 

Spacetime is Doomed.

SLAC:  Nima Arkani Hamed:  “The end of Spacetime”. There are many other references to Nima’s lectures on the internet describing why “Spacetime is doomed”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-C5RubqtRA

Edge:	The Abdication of Spacetime. Contains references to the work of Brian Swingle and Mark Van Raamsdonk. https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26563

Nature Communications. “Quantum clocks and the temporal localisability of events”  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16013-1.pdf

Papers We Love San Francisco: Lamport’s Unfinished Revolution

Video:	https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&t=32m27s&v=CWF3QnfihL4

Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/pborrill/time-clocks-and-the-reordering-of-events-pwl-san-francisco-14-jul-2016

Insights in the Nature of Time in Physics, and Implications for Computer Science

Video:		https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfvouFIVCmQ

Slides:	http://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/140416-Borrill-slides.pdf

Paul Borrill - Clubhouse

Gray failures in clouds cause delays in responses to requests.  Can we build fast transactional DBs if ENOUGH servers answer quickly while others are slow?  What does time mean for transactions?