1. Nicholas D'Aloisio was born on 1 November 1995 and is a British computer programmer and internet entrepreneur.
17 Facts About Nick D'Aloisio
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Nick D'Aloisio is the founder of Summly, a mobile app which automatically summarises news articles and other material, which was acquired by Yahoo for $30M, according to allthingsd.
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Nick D'Aloisio is the youngest person to receive a round of venture capital in technology, at the age of 16.
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Nick D'Aloisio is a student at Oxford University, where he graduated from the BPhil in Philosophy in July 2021 and now is undertaking the PhD course.
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Nick D'Aloisio was educated at King's College School, an independent school for boys in Wimbledon, south west London.
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From 2014, Nick D'Aloisio studied his undergraduate degree in philosophy and computer science at Hertford College, Oxford University.
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Since 2017, Nick D'Aloisio has published a number of academic papers in peer-reviewed journals.
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In March 2011, Nick D'Aloisio launched an iOS app named Trimit, which used an algorithm to condense text such as emails and blog posts into a summary of 1000,500, or 140-character text.
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Nick D'Aloisio hired a team from Israel, including a scientist named Inderjeet Mani, who specialised in natural language processing, to improve the app.
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In January 2014, Nick D'Aloisio announced the launch of Yahoo News Digest at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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In late 2015, Nick D'Aloisio co-founded a new startup called Sphere Knowledge with Tomas Halgas, who he met at Oxford.
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Nick D'Aloisio has been covered by major publications, including ReadWrite, Business Insider, Wired, Forbes, The Huffington Post and TechCrunch.
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Nick D'Aloisio was included in Time magazine's Time 100 as one of the world's most influential teenagers.
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Nick D'Aloisio appeared in the 30 Under 30, an annual list of top entrepreneurs by Forbes, and appeared in GQ magazine's 100 Most Connected Men of 2014.
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Nick D'Aloisio was placed No 30 on the 2014 Silicon Valley 100 by Business Insider.
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Nick D'Aloisio won a Spirit of London Award in December 2012 as Entrepreneur of the Year.
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Nick D'Aloisio received 2013's Entrepreneur of the Year by Spear's Wealth Management, as well as a Merton Business Award.