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