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For Paul Graham the artist photographer, see Paul Graham (photographer) .

For Paul Graham the genealogist, see Paul Graham (genealogist) .


Paul Graham (b. 1964 ) is a Lisp Programmer and Essayist . He is the Author of ''On Lisp'' ( 1993 ), ''ANSI Common Lisp'' ( 1995 ), and ''Hackers & Painters'' ( 2004 ).

In 1995 Graham and Robert Morris founded Viaweb , the first Application Service Provider . Viaweb's software (written largely in Common Lisp ) let users make their own Internet Store s. In the summer of 1998 Viaweb was sold to Yahoo! for 455,000 shares of Yahoo! stock, valued at $49.6 million. {Link without Title} At Yahoo! the product became Yahoo! Store.

He has since begun writing essays for his popular website paulgraham.com. They range from " Beating the Averages ", which compares Lisp to other '' (ISBN 0596006624) by O'Reilly .

He is also working on Arc , a new Lisp dialect. It is discussed in his essay The Hundred-Year Language , among others. As part of his work on Arc, he began developing an email client and decided it needed a good Spam Filter . The simplified Naive Bayes Classifier he described in " A Plan for Spam " inspired the current generation of probabilistic spam filters.

In , Jessica Livingston and Robert Morris started Y Combinator to provide Seed Funding to Startups , particularly those started by younger, more technically-oriented founders. Among the teams accepted into the first year's program was one including Aaron Swartz , a Stanford University student and noted teenage programmer.

Graham has an A.B. from Cornell and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard , and studied painting at Rhode Island School Of Design and the Accademia Di Belle Arti in Florence .


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