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Patrick Collison
CEO and co-founder, Stripe

Website | @patrickc

Patrick is an Irish Lisp, Smalltalk and C hacker. He won the Irish Young Scientist of the Year award in 2005, for work on a new dialect of Lisp. Later in 2005, he came second in the European Union Contest for Young Scientists. He started college at MIT in 2006, but deferred to cofound Auctomatic in early 2007. Ten months later, Auctomatic was acquired by Live Current Media for circa $5 million. He’s currently working on his second start-up.

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5:20pm Wednesday, 07/22/2009

Wikipedia for the iPhone/OLPC: storing the sum of human knowledge in 2GB

Mobile
Location: Meeting Room J3

Patrick Collison (Stripe)

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Released in early 2008 under the GPL, and downloaded over 100,000 times, the offline Wikipedia reader for the iPhone was one of the most popular pre-SDK apps. Now available in 17 languages for the iPhone/OLPC, it's the main means of browsing Wikipedia for those without internet access. This talk explains the techniques and challenges involved in efficiently storing Wikipedia on a mobile device. Read more.

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Patrick Collison CEO and co-founder, Stripe