Paul Graham

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Paul Graham

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

Graham studied at Cornell University , where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. He later earned a doctorate in computer science from Harvard . He also studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence . He worked as a consultant for the US Department of Energy , DuPont and Interleaf .

In 1995 Graham and Robert Tappan Morris founded Viaweb , whose main product - largely written in LISP - enabled users to create their own online shop . In the summer of 1998 he sold Viaweb to Yahoo , where the Viaweb draft horse to the Yahoo! Store was. Graham has been working on the Arc programming language , a LISP dialect, since 2001 . He also writes essays such as Why Nerds are Unpopular , Great Hackers and A Plan for Spam . In the latter, he made the simple Bayesian classification ( Naive Bayesian Classification ) known as a means of preventing spam . A number of his essays have been published in book form under the title Hackers and Painters: Essays on the Art of Programming (O'Reilly Media, 2004).

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

Conflict escalation model

Graham's "Hierarchy of Disagreement" model

In his essay “How to disagree” in 2008, Graham analyzed how people get involved in discussions, especially on the Internet . He classified arguments in different stages of their effect and wanted to provide help for de-escalation in conflicts. Similar to the model of conflict escalation according to Friedrich Glasl , it offers the possibility of resolving conflicts using analytical methods.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Why Nerds are Unpopular
  2. ↑ Great Hackers
  3. ^ A Plan for Spam
  4. ↑ http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
personal data
SURNAME Graham, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British computer scientist and LISP programmer
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Weymouth , Dorset , England