Richard Stallman: Awards, Accomplishments, and Major Publications

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    Worked at MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab

  • Graduated from Harvard

  • Developed dependency-directed backtracking AI techniques

  • Developed Emacs

  • Published EMACS: The Extensible, Customizable, Self-Documenting Display Editor

  • Launched the Free Software Movement and announced the development of the GNU Operating System

  • Began working on GNU

  • Established the Free Software Foundation

  • Became honorary life time membership in the Chalmers Computer Society

  • Received the Association for Computing's Grace Murray Hopper Award "For pioneering work in the development of the extensible editor EMACS (Editing Macros)."

  • Received MacArthur Foundation Fellowship

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    Visiting scientist at MIT

  • Received doctorate honoris causa from Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology

  • Received Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award

  • Called for the development of a free online encyclopedia, inspiring the development of Wikipedia

  • Received Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award

  • Received the Takeda Techno-Entrepreneurship Award for Social/Economic Well-Being

  • Received doctorate honoris causa from the University of Glasgow

  • Received United States National Academy of Engineering membership

  • Published GNU Emacs Manual

  • Received doctorate honoris causa from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel

  • Received honorary professorship from the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería del Perú

  • Received honorary professorship from the Universidad Tecnológica del Perú

  • Received doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad Nacional de Salta, in Argentina

  • Co-published GNU Make: A Program for Directed Compilation

  • Received Fondazione Pistoletto prize

  • Received doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad de Los Angeles de Chimbote, in Peru

  • Received honorary professorship from the Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, in Peru

  • Received First Premio Internacional Extremadura al Conocimiento Libre

  • Received doctorate honoris causa from the University of Pavia

  • Received doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, in Peru

  • Received Doctor of Science honoris causa from Lakehead University in Canada

  • Received doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, in Argentina

  • Received honorary professorship from the Universidad César Vallejo de Trujillo, in Peru

  • Received doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad José Faustino Sanchez Carrión, in Peru

  • Received doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad Latinoamericana Cima de Tacna, in Peru

  • Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame

  • Received doctorate honoris causa from Concordia University in Canada

  • Received doctorate honoris causa from Universidad las Américas in Peru

  • Published Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman (Third Ed.)

  • Received the Association for Computing's Software and Systems Award for development of GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection

  • Received doctorate honoris causa from Université Pierre et Marie Curie in France

  • Received doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad Nacional de Jujuy in Argentina

  • Received honorary professorship from the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional in Mendoza, in Argentina

  • Received doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad de Tucumán, in Argentina