About

It's About Time!

A place to discuss our evolving knowledge of the nature of time and causality.  For physicists, computer scientists, mathematicians, neuroscientists, philosophers, and practicing engineers.

Spacetime is Doomed.

A relationship with time is intrinsic to everything we do within and between our networked computers. An assumption that time is a smooth, irreversible, global Newtonian/Minkowskian background is a common but rarely questioned belief in computer science; yet, physicists now know this model to be incorrect.  Our guest speakers are all people who have thought deeply about the nature of time. We collectively realize that a new understanding could potentially revolutionize the way we approach physics, computer science, chemistry, neuroscience, and many other subjects.

What People Say

"It's about time" room, by any measure, has been the most useful and educational room that I have participated in on Clubhouse. I understand and appreciate the challenges of managing such a room, which delves into the most cutting-edge issues of science, yet is simple enough for people without specialized training in the subject to participate. You and your management style have done a phenomenally excellent job of guiding this discussion. For this, and for your time, eagerness, and dedication, I thank you. Five stars. Kudos. I look forward to many more."
Andrei Vazhnov
"It's about time" room, by any measure, has been the most useful and educational room that I have participated in on Clubhouse. I understand and appreciate the challenges of managing such a room, which delves into the most cutting-edge issues of science, yet is simple enough for people without specialized training in the subject to participate. You and your management style have done a phenomenally excellent job of guiding this discussion. For this, and for your time, eagerness, and dedication, I thank you. Five stars. Kudos. I look forward to many more."
Babak Mohit
"Paul has a unique ability to find and bring together deep thinkers with an open and collaborative spirit. It's only by setting aside prejudice and embracing the process of inquiry at a fundamental level that we can reach the new and the previously fantastic. This series of meetings is a testament to that notion, and I tip my hat to everyone involved."
Mark Burgess

Meet Your Host

Paul Borrill

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Paul Borrill, P.h.D - CEO

Paul Borrill is the founder and CEO of Daedaelus Corporation and is a leading industry expert on the foundations of resilient network and storage infrastructures. Paul has served on: Apple’s Infrastructure team.  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. 

He was educated In Physics at the University of Manchester, has a Ph.D in Physics from University College London, and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program.

Paul was the founding chairman of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). He served as Vice President of Technical Activities, Vice President of Standards, and on the Governing Board of the IEEE Computer Society. 

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