Jaan Tallinn is an Estonia

Estonia

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n programmer who participated in the development of Skype

Skype

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 and KaZaa

Kazaa

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.

Jaan Tallinn is partner and co-founder of the development company Bluemoon which created the game SkyRoads. He graduated from the University of Tartu

University of Tartu

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 in 1996 with a BSc

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 in Theoretical Physics

Theoretical physics

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 with a thesis that involved traveling interstellar distances using warps in space-time.

Jaan is a member of the advisory board at Lifeboat Foundation and member of Estonian President's Academic Advisory Board

External links

• http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A19821-2002Dec20
• http://www.detnews.com/2003/technology/0309/25/technology-280510.htm
• http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/02/07/why.estonia.ap/'
• http://asi.ee/team/jaan-tallinn
• http://www.bluemoon.ee/team/jaan/
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,7369,1193516,00.html