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Born
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Worked at MIT artifical intelligence lab
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Graduated harvard with a Bachelors in physics
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Graduate student in physics at MIT
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He wrote the first extensible Emacs text editor
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Founded free software movement when he announced he was developing GNU operating system
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resigned from MIT to start the GNU project
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Honorary life time membership in the Chalmers Computer Society
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founded the League for Programming Freedom, which campaigned against software patents and interface copyrights
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Received MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
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The Association for Computing Machinery's Grace Murray Hopper Award "For pioneering work in the development of the extensible editor EMACS (Editing Macros)."
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Stallman called for development of a free on-line encyclopedia through the means of inviting the public to contribute articles
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United States National Academy of Engineering membership
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Inducted into internet hall of fame
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The Association for Computing Machinery's Software and Systems Award for development of GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection.