Keynote - Richard Stallman

Presented at HOPE Number Six (2006), July 21, 2006, 4 p.m. (120 minutes)

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  • Richard Stallman
    Richard Stallman is the founder of the GNU Project, launched in 1984 to develop the free software operating system GNU. The name "GNU" is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not Unix." He graduated from Harvard in 1974 with a BA in physics. During his college years he also worked as a staff hacker at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, learning operating system development by doing it. He wrote the first extensible Emacs text editor there in 1975. He also developed the AI technique of dependency-directed backtracking, also known as truth maintenance. In January 1984 he resigned from MIT to start the GNU project.

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