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Tim O'Reilly (born June 6, 1954) is the founder of O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates). He popularized the terms open source and Web 2.0. ==Life and career== Born in County Cork, Ireland, O'Reilly moved to San Francisco with his family when he was a baby.〔 He has three brothers and three sisters. As a teenager, encouraged by his older brother Sean, O'Reilly became a follower of George Simon, a writer and adherent of the general semantics program.〔〔 Through Simon, O'Reilly became acquainted with the work of Alfred Korzybski,〔 which he has cited as a formative experience. In 1973, O'Reilly went to Harvard College to study Classics and graduated ''cum laude'' with a B.A. in 1975. During O'Reilly's freshman year at Harvard, George Simon died in an accident.〔〔 After graduating, O'Reilly completed an edition of Simon's ''Notebooks, 1965-1973''. He also wrote a well-received book on the science fiction writer Frank Herbert and edited a collection of Herbert's essays and interviews. After graduating, O'Reilly married his first wife, Christina, with whom he moved to the Boston area. The couple raised two daughters.〔 O'Reilly got started as a technical writer in 1977. He started publishing computer manuals in 1983, setting up his business in a converted barn in Newton, Massachusetts, where about a dozen employees worked in a single open room.〔 In 1989, O'Reilly moved his company to Sebastopol, California, and published the ''Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog'' best-seller in 1992.〔 O'Reilly's business, then known as O'Reilly & Associates, steadily grew through the '90s, during which period it expanded from print to web publishing. In 1993, the company's catalog became an early web portal, the Global Network Navigator, which in 1995 was sold to America Online for $11 million. The company suffered in the dotcom crash of 2000. As book sales decreased, O'Reilly had to lay off about seventy people, about a quarter of the staff,〔 but thereafter successfully rebuilt the company around ebook publishing, events, and online learning. The company has about 500 employees worldwide. O'Reilly serves on the board of directors of three companies, Safari Books Online, Maker Media, and PeerJ. He served on the board of Macromedia until its 2005 merger with Adobe Systems, and on the board of MySQL AB until its sale to Sun Microsystems. He also serves on the board of directors for the advocacy group Code for America. In February 2012, he joined the UC Berkeley School of Information Advisory Board.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/news/20120216timoreilly )〕 As a venture capitalist, O'Reilly has invested in companies such as Blogger, Delicious,〔 Foursquare, Bitly, and Chumby. On 11 April 2015 O'Reilly married Jennifer Pahlka, a former collaborator on his company's Web 2.0 events,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.web2expo.com/webexsf2011/public/schedule/speaker/360 )〕 former Deputy CTO of the USA, and currently Founder and Executive Director of Code for America. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tim O'Reilly」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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