Richard Stallman By TrevorR Mar 16, 1953 Born 1971 Started working at the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT 1974 Earned Bachelor's Degree in Physics from Harvard Period: 1974 to 1975 Graduate Student in Physics at MIT 1976 Wrote First Extensible Emacs Text Editor 1983 Began working on the GNU Project 1985 GNU Manifesto Written 1985 Created the Free Software Foundation 1986 Honorary Lifetime Membership in Chalmers Computer Society 1990 Awarded a MacArthur Fellowship 1998 Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award 1999 Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award 1999 Published "The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource" 2005 Fondazione Pistoletto prize 2013 Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame