Greg Bryant is a computer scientist and community organizer,[1] best known as the founder of Workspot in downtown Palo Alto during the dotcom boom,[2][3][4][5] and editor of RAIN Magazine since 1989.
[7][8] In computing, he was an early promoter of virtual machines,[9] which led to work promoting UNIX and software tools at Intel headquarters during the 80386 project, and the creation of several production domain-specific languages.
[10] He built languages and authoring tools for the first consumer in-car navigation systems, and the first mobile traffic app,[11] and built the first fullscreen mobile apps for Google,[12] and for eBay .
[15] He writes about foundation problems in computing philosophy,[16] and presents on the application of software to urban issues.
[17][18] His community organizing closely follows his research and writing for RAIN Magazine.