Virgil Griffith
Programmer, Website Owner
1983 –
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Who is Virgil Griffith?
Virgil Griffith, also known as Romanpoet, is an American software application writer, known for his creation of WikiScanner and the lawsuits filed against him by Blackboard Inc. in 2003. He has published papers on artificial life and integrated information theory. In developing WikiScanner Griffith described his mission as "to create minor public-relations disasters for companies and organizations I dislike." In 2013, he appeared on King of the Nerds, a competition series airing on TBS.
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- Born
- Mar 6, 1983
Birmingham - Also known as
- Romanpoet
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Alabama School of Mathematics and Science
( - 2002/06) - Bachelor of Arts, University of Alabama
Cognitive science
( - 2007) - California Institute of Technology
- Alabama School of Mathematics and Science
- Lived in
- Mobile
- Tuscaloosa
- Pasadena
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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