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Birth
Richard Stallman (RMS) is born. -
Attended Harvard
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Worked at MIT AI Lab
He was "learning operating system development by doing it, except for the year he was a graduate student." (A Serious Bio) -
Graduated Harvard
"Graduated with a Bachelor's of Arts in physics." (A Serious Bio) -
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Graduate Student
During this time period, Stallman was a graduate student in physics at MIT (A Serious Bio). -
Wrote the first Emacs text editor
"He wrote the first extensible Emacs text editor there in 1976, and developed the AI technique of dependency-directed backtracking, also known as truth maintenance." (A Serious Bio) -
Resigns from MIT
Begins work on GNU operating system, "a Unix-like operating system meant to be entirely free software" (A Serious Bio) -
Formed Free Software Foundation
At this time "he started the Free Software Foundation, of which he is president as a full-time volunteer." (A Serious Bio) -
Calls for online Encyclopedia
Stallman called for development of a free on-line encyclopedia through the means of inviting the public to contribute articles.
