Richard Hipp

D. Richard Hipp
Born	April 9, 1961 (1961-04-09) (age 50)
Nationality	United States of America
Known for	SQLite, Fossil, Lemon Parser Generator
Awards	Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award
Website
hwaci.com/drh/

Dwayne Richard Hipp (born April 9, 1961) is the architect and primary author of SQLite as well as Fossil SCM. He and his wife, Ginger G. Wyrick, currently live and work in Charlotte, North Carolina. He also authored the Lemon Parser Generator and CVSTrac. CVSTrac became the inspiration for Trac. He is also a member of the Tcl core team. Hipp uses Richard as his first name, or D. Richard Hipp when using his whole name.^[1]

Biography

Richard was born in Charlotte on April 9, 1961 but grew up in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from Stone Mountain High School in 1979 and enrolled at Georgia Tech. Hipp graduated from Georgia Tech in 1984 with Master of Science in Electrical Engineering.

After graduating from Georgia Tech, Richard worked at AT&T for three years before returning to graduate school at Duke University to study under Alan W. Biermann in the Department of Computer Science. Richard took the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Duke in 1992 and finding the academic market for Ph.D.s saturated with what he believed to be better qualified candidates, started his own software development consulting company.^{[citation needed]}

He married Ginger G. Wyrick on April 16, 1994, changed the name of his company to Hipp, Wyrick & Company, Inc, and signed all stock over to his new bride. Ginger and Richard moved to their present home in Charlotte, North Carolina in August 1995.

External links

• D. Richard Hipp home page
• Brief convention speaker bio
• Introduction to SQLite at Google Videos (Adobe Flash video) | alternate YouTube link
• How SQL Database Engines Work on YouTube
• FLOSS Weekly 26: SQLite Guest: D. Richard Hipp, creator and lead developer of SQLite
• Anderson, Tim (2007-06-21). "Size isn't everything for the modest creator of SQLite". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/jun/21/it.guardianweeklytechnologysection. 

References

1. ^ The name Dwayne appears in his dissertation at Duke University

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