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Starts work at MIT
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Begins work on GNU liscence
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starts the Free Software Foundation
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Honorary life time membership in the Chalmers Computer Society
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MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Reward
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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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Doctorate honoris causa from Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology
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Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award
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The Takeda Techno-Entrepreneurship Award for Social/Economic Well-Being
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United States National Academy of Engineering membership
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Doctorate honoris causa from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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Honorary professorship from the Universidad Tecnológica del Perú
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Fondazione Pistoletto prize
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Releases version 3 of GNU
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Doctor of Science honoris causa from Lakehead University in Canada
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Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame