Stephenson, Peter

Peter Stephenson grew up in northeast England and studied physics at the University of Oxford, where he earned a bachelor's degree and a Ph.D. Stephenson spent nine years as a physics researcher, with an emphasis on computational physics, and resided in Liverpool, Swansea, Berlin, and Pisa.

Since 2000, Stephenson has been a software engineer with Cambridge Silicon Radio, where he works on the baseband firmware for short-range digital radio standards, such as Bluetooth. Stephenson has been involoved in the development of the Z shell since the 1990s, when he began writing the FAQs. The past s...