Brad Templeton
Canadian software pioneer; founded ClariNet, chaired the EFF and writes on robocars.
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- Brad Templeton is a Canadian software developer, internet entrepreneur and futurist, born in June 1960 near Toronto.
- He founded ClariNet Communications in 1989, called the first company founded to do business over the early internet.
- He chaired the Electronic Frontier Foundation from 2000 to 2010.
- He has written about self-driving cars from 2007 and consulted for Google's self-driving car project from 2010.
Key facts
- Born
- June 1960, near Toronto1
- Founded
- ClariNet Communications (1989), founder and CEO1
- EFF
- Involved from 1997; chairman, 2000 to 20101
- Usenet
- Created and moderated rec.humor.funny1
- Robocars
- Writes at Brad Ideas and robocars.com from 2007; consulted for Google's self-driving car project (now Waymo) from 20101
- Also
- Board of the Foresight Institute from 2004; founding faculty of Singularity University1
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