Paul Graham

See also: Paul Graham (homonymy)

Paul Graham (born in 1964 with Weymouth pine, in England) is investor in Capital risk, programmer Lisp and essay writer. It is the author of One Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995) and Hackers & Painters (2004).

It is graduate letters of the university of Cornell and has a doctorate of data processing of Harvard. He off studied also painting with the Rhode Island School Design and with the Academy of the Art schools of Florence. He worked as consultant for the department of energy to the the United States.

In 1995, Graham and Robert Morris founded Viaweb , the first supplier of lodged applications (application service provider). Viaweb, writes mainly in Common Lisp, makes it possible to the users to create their commercial own site. Viaweb was sold with Yahoo! during the summer 1998 per 455.000 Yahoo! actions, evaluated to 49,6 million dollars. At Yahoo! , Viaweb became Yahoo! Blind.

Since it started to write tests, published on its Web site paulgraham.com. They go from " Beating the Averages" (To beat the averages), in which it compares Lisp with other computer programming languages, with " Why Nerds are Unpopular" , a discussion on the life of the " Nerd s" with the college. A collection of its tests was published under the title Hackers and Painters by O' Reilly.

He also works on Arc, a new dialect of Lisp, discussed in particular in his test The Hundred-Year Language. In its work on Arc, it started to develop a customer of transport and understood that it needed a good filter Anti-spam. The naive algorithm of simplified Bayes which it describes in " With Plan for Spam" the current generation of filters anti-spam probabilists inspired.

In 2005, after a conference with the Harvard Computer Society , published later under the name How to Start has Startup (How to start a startup), Graham launched Y Combinator with Trevor Blackwell, Jessica Livingston and Robert Morris to provide a first financing to the startups, especially those started by the people young and specialized in the technical field.

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Web site of Paul Graham
Slashdot Review: Hackers & Painters
Paul Graham provides stunning answer to spam e-mail
Startup: Directions for use: translation of the famous test " How to start has startup"
Is worth it the sorrow to be wise: translation of the test Is it worth being wise?

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