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Attended the University of California, Berkeley
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Participated in the Free Speech Movement and was one of 768 arrested in the climactic "Sproul Hall Sit-In" of December 2–3, 1964. He also wrote for the Berkeley Barb, one of the leading underground newspapers.
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wrote for the Berkeley Barb, one of the leading underground newspapers -
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He received a B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley
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An original member of the Homebrew Computer Club
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Got a job at Osborne Computer Corporation, he was the designer of the Osborne 1, the first mass-produced portable computer -
joined Interval Research Corporation, where he worked until 2000 -
Was named a "Pioneer of the Electronic Frontier" in 1994 by the Electronic Frontier Foundation
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founded the Free Speech Movement Archives as an online repository of historical information relating to that event, its antecedents and successors
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named a Laureate of The Tech Museum of Innovation (San Jose, California) for this work.
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while working with the Jhai Foundation of San Francisco, he designed an open-source telecommunications and computer system for installation in remote villages in the developing world
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was given the Editor's Choice Award for Creative Excellence by EE Times magazine
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Founding Sensei of the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, California, and was featured on a Fox News segment in late 2009 covering the non-profit facility -
made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum, "for his influence on the technical and social environment of the early personal computing era."