Polkadot

Gavin Wood is the founder of Polkadot, as well as the founder of Parity Technologies and Web3 Foundation.EducationGavin Wood got his master's and Ph.D. degrees from the University of New York. Master of Engineering, Computer Systems / Software Engineering, University of New York (1998-2002)Ph.D., Music Visualisation for Human-Computer Interfacing, University of New York (2002-2005)CareerGavin Wood was the co-founder and CTO of Ethereum. Before working on Ethereum, he was a research scientist at Microsoft. Gavin Wood proposed and helped develop Solidity, a programming language for writing smart contracts. He also released the paper defining the Ethereum Virtual Machine in 2014.Wood left the Ethereum Foundation and founded Parity Technologies in 2016. Parity Technologies (formerly Ethcore) is a blockchain infrastructure provider, which developed Parity Ethereum (an Ethereum client), Polkadot, and Kusama. Then, he founded the Web3 Foundation in 2017, a nonprofit organization focusing on decentralized internet infrastructure and technology, starting with the Polkadot network.

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