Colin Percival

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Colin Percival

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Colin Percival's Degrees

• Bachelors Computer Science University of Victoria

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Why Is Colin Percival Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Colin A. Percival is a Canadian computer scientist and computer security researcher. He completed his undergraduate education at Simon Fraser University and a doctorate at the University of Oxford. While at university he joined the FreeBSD project, and achieved some notoriety for discovering a security weakness in Intel's hyper-threading technology. Besides his work in delta compression and the introduction of memory-hard functions, he is also known for developing the Tarsnap online backup service, which became his full-time job.

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Colin Percival?

Colin Percival is affiliated with the following schools:

• Simon Fraser University
• University of Oxford
• University of Victoria