Diogenes Club Diogenes Club The Diogenes Club is a fictional gentleman's club created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and featured in several Sherlock Holmes stories, such as "The Greek Interpreter". It seems to have been named after Diogenes the Cynic (although this is never explained in the original stories) and was co-founded by Sherlock's indolent elder brother, Mycroft Holmes. The club is described by Sherlock Holmes in the story "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter" as follows: Although there is no hint in the original Sherlock Holmes canon that the Diogenes Club is anything but what it seems to be, several later
Alan Mycroft charitable organisation whose single-board computer is intended to stimulate the teaching of basic computer science in schools. Mycroft has four children. Alan Mycroft Alan Mycroft is a professor at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge, where he is also director of studies for computer science. Mycroft read Mathematics at Cambridge then moved to Edinburgh where he completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree with a thesis on the Abstract interpretation and optimising transformations for applicative programs supervised by Rod Burstall and Robin Milner. Mycroft's research interests are in Programming Languages, Software Engineering and Algorithms.