Bram Cohen is an American

United States

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 computer programmer, best known as the author of the peer-to-peer

Peer-to-peer

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 (P2P) BitTorrent protocol, as well as the first file sharing

File sharing

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 program to use the protocol, also known as BitTorrent. He is also the co-founder of CodeCon

CodeCon

CodeCon was an annual conference for hackers and technology enthusiasts, held every year between 2002 and 2009. CodeCon was not intended to be a computer security conference, but a conference with a focus on developers doing presentations of technologies, rather than products.-History:Bram Cohen...

, organizer of the San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

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 P2P-hackers meeting, and the co-author of Codeville

Codeville

Codeville is a distributed revision control system. It was written by Ross Cohen using Python, with some design work done by Bram Cohen. It uses an innovative merging algorithm called the "Codeville merge". A new merge algorithm called "Precise Codeville" or "pcvd" merge was under development...

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He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

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 with his wife Jenna and their three children.
Cohen grew up in the Upper West Side

Upper West Side

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 of Manhattan

Manhattan

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, New York City

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, New York

New York

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