Gavin Wood | |
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 Wood in TechCrunch Disrupt Event in Berlin 2017 | |
| Born | Gavin James Wood |
| Education | Lancaster Royal Grammar School |
| Alma mater | University of York |
| Known for | Co-founder of Ethereum and former CTO of the Ethereum Foundation; co-founder of Polkadot; CWO and Chairman of Parity Technologies; author of the Polkadot White Paper and the Ethereum Yellow Paper |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Content-based visualisation to aid common navigation of musical audio (2005) |
| Website | www |
Gavin James Wood is an English computer scientist, a co-founder of Ethereum, and creator of Polkadot and Kusama.[1][2]
- ^ Francisco, Danny Fortson in San (25 June 2017). "British coder revealed as brains behind bitcoin rival". The Sunday Times. ISSN 0956-1382. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
- ^ "Ethereum Blockchain Killer Goes By Unassuming Name of Polkadot". Bloomberg.com. 17 October 2020.