Bram Cohen
Bram Cohen (* 1975 ) is an American programmer and the creator of the BitTorrent protocols and the reference implementation in the original BitTorrent client (BitTorrent mainline).
Until spring 2001 he worked for the unsuccessful company Autonomous Zone , which produced the MojoNation software and was up for sale in 2001. Then he completed the first stable version of the reference implementation of the BitTorrent protocol at the DEFCON in the summer of that year in order to present the technology there.
Together with his flat-share partner Len Sassaman at the time , he founded CodeCon, a cheap alternative to large hacker conferences such as DEFCON (event) .
Bram Cohen currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Jenna and children.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Wired News - Defcon Keeps Hackers Hooked (English) ( Memento from February 9, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
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| SURNAME | Cohen, Bram |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American programmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1975 |