Jesse Sheidlower (born August 5) is an
authorAn author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created...
and
editorThe term editor may refer to:As a person who does editing:* Editor in chief, having final responsibility for a publication's operations and policies* Copy editing, making formatting changes and other improvements to text...
specializing in
EnglishEnglish is a West Germanic language that developed in England during the Anglo-Saxon era. As a result of the military, economic, scientific, political, and cultural influence of the British Empire during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, and of the United States since the mid 20th century,...
linguisticsLinguistics is the scientific study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure and the study of meaning...
and
lexicographyLexicography is divided into two related disciplines:*Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries....
. From 1999 until 2005 he was Principal North American Editor at the
Oxford English DictionaryThe Oxford English Dictionary , published by the Oxford University Press , is a comprehensive dictionary of the English language...
; since 2005 he has been an editor-at-large, focusing on North American usage. He is a frequently cited expert on slang and changing usage in the U.S. His book,
The F-Word, was published by Random House in 1995.
Sheidlower received an undergraduate degree in English from the
University of ChicagoThe University of Chicago is a private, coeducational research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by oil magnate and benefactor John D...
and did graduate work at Cambridge University in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic.
Although not a computer programmer by training, Sheidlower introduced
PerlPerl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall, a linguist working as a systems administrator for NASA, in 1987, as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone...
to the North American offices of Oxford University Press and developed tools for data manipulation when no programmers were available.
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Jesse Sheidlower (born August 5) is an
authorAn author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created...
and
editorThe term editor may refer to:As a person who does editing:* Editor in chief, having final responsibility for a publication's operations and policies* Copy editing, making formatting changes and other improvements to text...
specializing in
EnglishEnglish is a West Germanic language that developed in England during the Anglo-Saxon era. As a result of the military, economic, scientific, political, and cultural influence of the British Empire during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, and of the United States since the mid 20th century,...
linguisticsLinguistics is the scientific study of natural language. Linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure and the study of meaning...
and
lexicographyLexicography is divided into two related disciplines:*Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries....
. From 1999 until 2005 he was Principal North American Editor at the
Oxford English DictionaryThe Oxford English Dictionary , published by the Oxford University Press , is a comprehensive dictionary of the English language...
; since 2005 he has been an editor-at-large, focusing on North American usage. He is a frequently cited expert on slang and changing usage in the U.S. His book,
The F-Word, was published by Random House in 1995.
Sheidlower received an undergraduate degree in English from the
University of ChicagoThe University of Chicago is a private, coeducational research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by oil magnate and benefactor John D...
and did graduate work at Cambridge University in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic.
Although not a computer programmer by training, Sheidlower introduced
PerlPerl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall, a linguist working as a systems administrator for NASA, in 1987, as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone...
to the North American offices of Oxford University Press and developed tools for data manipulation when no programmers were available. He is also one of the core developers of
Catalyst, a popular Perl web development framework.