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Paul Graham is an essayist, programmer, and investor. In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. In 2002 he described a simple statistical spam filter that inspired a new generation of filters. In 2005 he was one of the founders of Y Combinator. He and Robert Morris are currently working on a new Lisp dialect called Arc.

Paul is the author of On Lisp (Prentice Hall, 1993), ANSI Common Lisp (Prentice Hall, 1995), and Hackers & Painters (O'Reilly, 2004). He has an AB from Cornell and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard, and studied painting at RISD and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.


Bibliography

  1. (2004)

    Hackers & Painters

  2. ANSI Common LISP

  3. On LISP: Advanced Techniques for Common LISP

  4. A Trained Voice

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  • Legal name: Paul Graham
  • Birthdate: 1964 (age 48)
  • Birthplace: , England
  • Nationality: English
  • Gender: Male
  • Official Website: http://paulgraham.com
  • Genres: Essay, Programmer, Computer Science

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There's at least two Paul Grahams whose books are listed here:
Paul Graham (photographer) and  Paul Graham (programmer and blogger)