Gavin Wood | |
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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) |
Gavin James Wood is an English computer scientist, a co-founder of Ethereum, and creator of Polkadot and Kusama. [1] [2]
Wood was born in Lancaster, England, United Kingdom. He attended the Lancaster Royal Grammar School. He graduated from the University of York with a Master of Engineering (MEng) in Computer Systems and Software Engineering in 2002 and completed his PhD entitled "Content-based visualization to aid common navigation of musical audio" in 2005. [3]
Before working on Ethereum, Wood was a research scientist at Microsoft. [1] He was one of the founders of the Ethereum blockchain, which he has described as "one computer for the entire planet," [4] with Vitalik Buterin, Charles Hoskinson, Anthony Di Iorio, and Joseph Lubin during 2013–2014. [5] [6] He also served as the Ethereum Foundation's first chief technology officer. [7] [8] [9] Wood left the Ethereum Foundation in January 2016. [10]
Wood founded Parity Technologies (formerly Ethcore), which developed a client for the Ethereum network and creates software for companies using blockchain technology, with Jutta Steiner, who also previously worked at the Ethereum Foundation. [1] [8]
He founded the Web3 Foundation, a nonprofit organization focusing on decentralized internet infrastructure and technology, starting with the Polkadot network. [8]
Amid 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Wood donated $5.8 million in cryptocurrency to support Ukraine. [11]
Gavin Wood | |
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![]() Wood in 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) |
Gavin James Wood is an English computer scientist, a co-founder of Ethereum, and creator of Polkadot and Kusama. [1] [2]
Wood was born in Lancaster, England, United Kingdom. He attended the Lancaster Royal Grammar School. He graduated from the University of York with a Master of Engineering (MEng) in Computer Systems and Software Engineering in 2002 and completed his PhD entitled "Content-based visualization to aid common navigation of musical audio" in 2005. [3]
Before working on Ethereum, Wood was a research scientist at Microsoft. [1] He was one of the founders of the Ethereum blockchain, which he has described as "one computer for the entire planet," [4] with Vitalik Buterin, Charles Hoskinson, Anthony Di Iorio, and Joseph Lubin during 2013–2014. [5] [6] He also served as the Ethereum Foundation's first chief technology officer. [7] [8] [9] Wood left the Ethereum Foundation in January 2016. [10]
Wood founded Parity Technologies (formerly Ethcore), which developed a client for the Ethereum network and creates software for companies using blockchain technology, with Jutta Steiner, who also previously worked at the Ethereum Foundation. [1] [8]
He founded the Web3 Foundation, a nonprofit organization focusing on decentralized internet infrastructure and technology, starting with the Polkadot network. [8]
Amid 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Wood donated $5.8 million in cryptocurrency to support Ukraine. [11]