Philip Greenspun

Quick Facts

Full Name	Philip Greenspun
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Sep 28, 1963(1963-09-28)
Age	61
Birthplace	Bethesda
Country	United States
Birth City	Bethesda
Horoscope	Capricorn

Philip Greenspun Biography

Philip Greenspun is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on September 28, 1963 in Bethesda, Bethesda, United States. Greenspun was born on September 28, 1963, grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, and received an S.B. in Mathematics from MIT in 1982. After working for Hewlett Packard Research Labs in Palo Alto and Symbolics, he became a founder of ICAD, Inc. Greenspun returned to MIT to study electrical engineering and computer science, eventually receiving a Ph.D.

In 2007, Greenspun donated $20,000 to Wikimedia Foundation to start a project fund for the payment of illustrators to supply illustrations for use on Wikimedia Foundation projects.

Greenspun is a volunteer for Angel Flight and, on December 6, 2010, assisted in the first nationally arranged kidney paired-donation in which kidneys were flown from Lebanon, New Hampshire to St. Louis and vice versa.

In January 2011 and again in January 2012, Greenspun taught an intensive RDBMS/SQL programming course at MIT using Google Docs to coordinate classroom instruction.

Greenspun has taught electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. One of Greenspun’s most famous students is Randal Pinkett, who built an online community for low-income housing residents in Greenspun’s 6.171 Software Engineering for Internet Applications course. Pinkett went on to win NBC TV show The Apprentice. In 2003, Greenspun helped teach a newly designed circuits and electronics course at MIT.

Philip Greenspun Net Worth

Philip Greenspun is one of the richest Photographer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Philip Greenspun 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 1993, Greenspun founded photo.net, an online community for people helping each other to improve their photographic skills. He seeded the community with “Travels with Samantha”, a photo-illustrated account of a trip from Boston to Alaska and back. Photo.net became a business in 2000 with the help of some of his cofounders Rajeev Surati and Waikit Lau. Having grown to 600,000 registered users, was acquired by NameMedia in 2007 for $6 million, according to documents filed in connection with a planned public offering of NameMedia shares.

Greenspun was an early developer of database-backed Web sites, which became the dominant approach to engineering sites with user contributions, e.g., Amazon.com. Greenspun was a developer of one of the first Web-based electronic medical record systems. Greenspun’s Oracle-based community site LUSENET was an important early host of free forums. In 1995, Greenspun was hired to lead development of Hearst Corporation’s Internet services, which included some early e-commerce sites.

Greenspun was employed as a commercial pilot for Delta Air Lines subsidiary Comair from 2008 until it ceased operation in 2012. According to the FAA Airmen registry, Greenspun holds an Airline Transport Pilot License and Flight Instructor certificates for both airplanes and helicopters, as well as type ratings for two turbojet-powered airplanes. Greenspun is listed as an instructor at the East Coast Aero Club and was interviewed by NPR regarding the success of a Groupon helicopter lesson offer.

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Who is Philip Greenspun Dating?

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Philip Ranked on the list of most popular Photographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Philip Greenspun celebrates birthday on September 28 of every year.