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==Education and early life== Bray was born on June 21, 1955<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bray | first1=Tim | title=The New 40 |url=https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2015/06/24/The-new-40 |website=Ongoing |access-date=15 September 2019}}</ref> in [[Alberta]], Canada where his father worked for the Dominion Experimental Farm Service in [[Fort Vermilion]]. He grew up in [[Beirut]], Lebanon, and returned to Canada to attend school at the [[University of Guelph]] in [[Guelph]], [[Ontario]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Weise |first1=Karen |title=The Amazon Critic Who Saw Its Power From the Inside |work=The New York Times |date=22 July 2020 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/technology/amazon-critic-tim-bray.html |access-date=4 March 2021}}</ref> He graduated in 1981 with a [[Bachelor of Science]], [[Double majors in the United States|double majoring]] in mathematics and computer Science. In 2009, he would return to Guelph to receive an honorary doctorate.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uoguelph.ca/news/2009/06/eight_to_receiv.html|title=Eight to Receive Honorary Degrees|date=June 1, 2009}}</ref> Tim described his switch of focus from math to computer science this way: <blockquote>"In math Iโd worked like a dog for my Cs, but in CS I worked much less for Asโand learned that you got paid well for doing it."<ref name=apple>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040404093431/http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/bray/|archive-date=2004-04-04|url=https://www.apple.com/science/profiles/bray/|title=Tim Bray: Biomedical Visualization|author=Joe Cellini|publisher=Apple Inc.}}</ref></blockquote>
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