Biography
Barton is the son of two environmental engineers. Officially homeschooled since third grade, Barton took part-time classes at Tufts University, in chemistry (5th grade), physics (6th grade), and subsequently Swedish, Finnish, French, and Chinese. Since eighth grade he worked part-time with MIT computer scientist Charles E. Leiserson on CilkChess, a computer chess program.
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