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English computer scientist, essayist, entrepreneur, investor, and author. Known for his work on the programming language Lisp, co-founding Viaweb (later Yahoo! Store), and co-founding Y Combinator.
Gennady Samorodnitsky received his B.S. in 1978 from the Moscow Steel and Alloys Institute, USSR, his M.S. and his D. Sc. 1986 from Technion, Israel in 1983. He joined the School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering in 1988. After completing his doctorate, Samorodnitsky spent two years as a visiting professor, first at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Received MA in mathematics from the University of Amsterdam in 1966 and PhD in mathematics in 1970 under Johannes Runnenburg. Research focus on regular variation and sample extremes.