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Paul Graham (programmer)
Paul Graham | |
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| Born | November 13, 1964[1] Weymouth, Dorset, England[2] |
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| Education | Cornell University (BA) Harvard University (MS, PhD) |
| Known for | Viaweb Y Combinator Hacker News Hackers & Painters |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Thesis | The State of a Program and Its Uses (1990) |
| Website | paulgraham |
Paul Graham (/ɡræm/; born November 13, 1964)[3] is an English-American computer scientist, writer, entrepreneur and investor. His work has included the programming language Arc, the startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo! Store), co-founding the startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his essays, and Hacker News.
He is the author of the computer programming books On Lisp,[4] ANSI Common Lisp,[5] and Hackers & Painters.[6] Technology journalist Steven Levy has described Graham as a "hacker philosopher".[7]
Graham was born in England, where he and his family have maintained a permanent residence since 2016. He is also a citizen of the United States, where he attended all of his schooling and lived for 48 years prior to returning to England.
- ^ @paulg (13 January 2023). "Register" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "No; I was born in Weymouth, England. My father's Welsh though". Hacker News. Ycombinator. 5 October 2008. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
- ^ "Graham, Paul 1964- Authorities & Vocabularies (Library of Congress Name Authority File)". U.S. Library of Congress. 11 March 2005. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
(Paul Graham, b. Nov. 13, 1964)
- ^ Graham, Paul (1994). On Lisp: advanced techniques for Common Lisp. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-030552-9.
- ^ Graham, Paul (1996). ANSI Common Lisp. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-370875-6.
- ^ Graham, Paul (2004). Hackers & painters: big ideas from the computer age. Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly. ISBN 0-596-00662-4.
- ^ Levy, Steven. "Y Combinator Has Gone Supernova". Wired.
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