Paul Graham (computer programmer)

Paul Graham ( born November 13, 1964 in Weymouth, Dorset, England) is a programmer and the author of the BüchernOn Lisp ( Prentice Hall, 1993), ANSI Common Lisp ( Prentice Hall, 1995), and Hackers & Painters (O'Reilly Media, 2004).

Graham studied at Cornell University, graduating from there with a Bachelor of Arts. Later, he earned his doctorate at Harvard in computer science. He also studied art at the Rhode Iceland School of Design ( RISD ) and at the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence. He worked as a consultant for the U.S. Department of Energy, DuPont and Interleaf.

In 1995, Graham and Robert Morris, the company Viaweb whose main product - written largely in LISP - made ​​it possible for users to create their own online store. In summer 1998 he sold Viaweb at Yahoo, where the Viaweb draft horse for Yahoo! Store was. Since 2001, Graham is working on the programming of Arc, a dialect of LISP. He also writes essays like Why Nerds are Unpopular, Great Hackers and A Plan for Spam. In the latter, he made known the Simple Bayesian Classification (English Naive Bayesian Classification) as a means for spam filtering. A number of his essays in book form under the title Hackers and Painters: Essays on the published Art of Programming ( O'Reilly Media, 2004).

In 2005 he founded together with Robert Morris, Trevor Blackwell, and Jessica Livingston Seed Accelerator Y Combinator the.