Gavin Wood
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Gavin Wood | |
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| Born | April 1980 (age 44) |
| Nationality | British[1] |
| Education | Lancaster Royal Grammar School |
| Alma mater | University of York[1] |
| Known for | Co-founder and former CTO of Ethereum; CTO and Chairman of Parity Technologies; author of the Polkadot paper |
Gavin James Wood (born April 1980) is a British programmer who is a co-founder and former CTO of Ethereum.[2][3][4][5] In August 2014 he proposed Solidity, a contract-oriented programming language for writing smart contracts.[6] He is the founder and former[7] CTO and Chairman of Parity Technologies who released the Parity Bitcoin technology stack.[8] He also authored the Polkadot paper.[9]
He was educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School, graduated from the University of York with a Master of Engineering (MEng) in Computer Systems and Software Engineering in 2002, and completed his PhD in Computer Science at York in 2005, with a thesis entitled "Content-based visualisation to aid common navigation of musical audio".[10] The thesis directly lead to the Moodbar, a static music visualisation used in several prominent music applications on the Linux desktop.
Papers
- Ethereum: A Secure Decentralised Generalised Transaction Ledger[11]
- Polkadot: Vision for a Heterogenous Multi-Chain Framework
- Martta: A C++ Language Workbench[12]
- Content-based visualisation to aid common navigation of musical audio[13]
- On Techniques for Content-based Visual Annotation to Aid Intra-track Music Navigation[14]
- Quantitative Comparisons into Content-Based Music Recognition with the Self Organising Map[15]
References
- ^ a b c "British coder revealed as brains behind bitcoin rival". The Times. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
- ^ "The future of Blockchain infrastructure, with Gavin Wood and Jutta Steiner at Disrupt Berlin". TechCrunch. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
- ^ "Ethereum: the competitor to Bitcoin which could transform entire industries". New Statesman. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
- ^ "Bitcoin Finds a Home in Cash-Loving Germany". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
- ^ "Ethereum Hard Fork Completes, Pushes Ether Price Up". MSN Money. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
- ^ Benoit Schweblin. "StackEdit Viewer". stackedit.io.
- ^ "Parity Technologies new CTO". 6 August 2018.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Allison, Ian (28 April 2017). "Ethereum co-founder Dr Gavin Wood and company release Parity Bitcoin". International Business Times. Archived from the original on 28 April 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Pokadot Paper by Gavin Wood
- ^ "Content-based visualisation to aid common navigation of musical audio". British Library EThOS. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
- ^ Ethereum Yellow Paper by Gavin Wood
- ^ Martta: A C++ Language Workbench by Gavin Wood
- ^ Content-based visualisation to aid common navigation of musical audio by Gavin Wood
- ^ On Techniques for Content-based Visual Annotation to Aid Intra-track Music Navigation by Gavin Wood
- ^ Quantitative Comparisons into Content-Based Music Recognition with the Self Organising Map by Gavin Wood
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