Gavin Wood Explained

Gavin Wood
Birth Name:Gavin James Wood
Birth Place:Lancaster, England
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
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Thesis Year:2005
Thesis Title:Content-based visualisation to aid common navigation of musical audio
Thesis Url:https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/9955/1/488752.pdf

Gavin James Wood is an English computer scientist, a co-founder of Ethereum, and creator of Polkadot and Kusama.[1] [2]

Early life

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]

Career

Before working on Ethereum, Wood was a research scientist at Microsoft. 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.

He founded the Web3 Foundation, a nonprofit organization focusing on decentralized internet infrastructure and technology, starting with the Polkadot network.

Support for Ukraine

Amid the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Wood donated $5.8 million in cryptocurrency to support Ukraine.[11]

Publications

Notes and References

  1. News: British coder revealed as brains behind bitcoin rival. Francisco. Danny Fortson in San. 25 June 2017. The Sunday Times. 9 January 2020. 0956-1382.
  2. Web site: Ethereum Blockchain Killer Goes By Unassuming Name of Polkadot . Bloomberg.com . en . 17 October 2020.
  3. Content-based visualiszation to aid common navigation of musical audio . 2005 . University of York . Ph.D . Wood . Gavin James . 11 July 2022 . 11 July 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220711173118/https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.488752 . dead .
  4. Web site: Ethereum: the competitor to Bitcoin which could transform entire industries. New Statesman. 12 April 2016 . 9 January 2020.
  5. Web site: Ethereum Regains Title as Second Most Valuable Cryptocurrency Behind Bitcoin . Fortune . en . 2021-12-31 . 2018-01-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180108225210/https://fortune.com/2018/01/08/ethereum-price-ripple-price-bitcoin-xrp/ . live .
  6. News: Vitalik Buterin: The cryptocurrency prophet Financial Post. Post. Claire Brownell Financial. Financial Post . 27 June 2017. 9 January 2020.
  7. News: The Prophets of Cryptocurrency Survey the Boom and Bust. Paumgarten. Nick. The New Yorker. 15 October 2018. 9 January 2020. 0028-792X.
  8. News: The future of Blockchain infrastructure, with Gavin Wood and Jutta Steiner. Shieber. Jonathan. 1 November 2017. TechCrunch. 9 January 2020.
  9. News: Founders' Fork: The Ethereum Architects Now Locked in Battle . Jain . Aman . Entrepreneur . 17 August 2021 . 19 August 2021 . 18 August 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210818211950/https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/380431 . dead .
  10. Web site: Wood . Gavin . The last Blog Post . Ethereum.org . Ethereum Foundation . 15 March 2022.
  11. Book: MacKenzie Sigalos . en . Ukraine has raised more than $54 million as bitcoin donations pour in to support the war against Russia . . 2022-03-03 . 2022-02-09.
  12. https://ethereum.github.io/yellowpaper/paper.pdf Ethereum Yellow Paper
  13. https://polkadot.network/PolkaDotPaper.pdf Polkadot White Paper

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