Gavin James Wood (born 1980) is an English computer scientist, a founder of Ethereum and creator of Polkadot and Kusama.[1][2]
Gavin Wood | |
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 Wood in 2017 | |
| Born | Gavin James Wood April 1980 (age 42) |
| 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) |
| Website | www |