Richard Stallman

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  • Birth

    Richard Stallman was born on March 16, 1953

  • Harvard University

    Started school at Harvard University
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    Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT

    Worked in the AI lab learning OS development

  • Graduated from Harvard

    Stallman graduated from Harvard in 1974 with a Bachelors of Arts in physics
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    Graduate Student at MIT

    Worked as a graduate student in physics at MIT

  • Created Emacs Text Editor

  • Announced the Project Development of the GNU OS

  • Stallman's Biography

    Richard Stallman wrote a biography and released it under a creative commons license

  • GNU OS Project Began

    On this day, Stallman began the project

  • Started the Free Software Foundation

    Stallman began the Free Software Foundation. A nonprofit focused on user freedoms

  • Founded League for Programming Freedom

    Organization to unite free software developers

  • Awarded: The Association for Computing Machinery's Grace Murray Hopper Award

    This award is for, ""For pioneering work in the development of the extensible editor EMACS"

  • Award: Doctorate honoris causa from Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology

  • Free On-line Encyclopedia

    Stallman called for the development of an online encyclopedia with inviting the public to share articles

  • Award: Fondazione Pistoletto Prize

    The Visible Award is the first European award system to sustain socially committed artistic practices and projects with a participatory and interdisciplinary approach going beyond art’s conventional confines to address the complexities of our globalized society and make a direct impact on the world. (http://www.fondazionezegna.org/en/news_fondazione/18809/)