Rich Skrenta
Rich Skrenta (* 1967 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ) is an American computer scientist , entrepreneur, and inventor .
Life
Skrenta is considered to be the inventor of the first computer virus . In 1982, at the age of 15, when he attended Mt. Lebanon High School, he wrote the world's first Elk Cloner computer virus . After leaving school, he studied computer science at Northwestern University . Skrenta is the founder of the Open Directory Project . In 2007 he founded Blekko, which operated the Blekko search engine .
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Skrenta, Rich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania |