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what="official announcement by Evan Korth's Computers and
Society course, NYU Free Culture Club, NYU ACM (Association for
Computing Machinery) chapter, WinC (Women in Computing), and
InfoLaw/NYU">
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:59:27 -0400
From: "Fred Benenson" <frederick@nyu.edu>
To: "Free Culture @ NYU's list serv" <free-culture@forums.nyu.edu>
Subject: [free-culture] Richard Stallman at NYU Wednesday, March 21st
Free Culture @ NYU,
Richard Stallman is coming to NYU as part of the speakers
series we've been organizing (previous speakers have been Cory
Doctorow of BoingBoing.net and Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia) for
Evan's Computers and Society undergrad class. Please please come
early if you want a seat, we had to turn people away from Jimmy's
talk and that wasn't fun.
Also, don't forget:
A Roundtable Discussion with Ray Beckerman
of Recording Industry v. The People
6:45pm on Thursday March 22nd 2007
Room 324 Furman Hall
More info on that event shortly...
Here's the info on RMS's talk:
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From: Evan Korth <korth@cs.nyu.edu>
Date: Mar 14, 2007 4:43 PM
Subject: [Computers_and_society_announcements] Richard Stallman at NYU
Wednesday, March 21st
To: Computers_and_society_announcements@cs.nyu.edu
On Wednesday, March 21st, as part of my Computers and Society
course and NYU's Free Culture series we will host a talk by
Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and the
GNU Project.
The talk is entitled "Free Software and Freedom: Free Software in Ethics
and in Practice."
Richard Stallman will speak about the goals and philosophy of the
Free Software Movement, and the status and history the GNU
operating system, which in combination with the kernel Linux is
now used by tens of millions of users world-wide.
We expect a full house, so please arrive early in order to ensure
you get a seat.
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Here are the details:
Free Software and Freedom: Free Software in Ethics and in Practice
A talk by Richard Stallman
Wednesday, March 21st @ 3:30pm - 4:45pm
Courant Institute,
251 Mercer Street, Room 109
Free and open to the public.
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Sponsored by Free Culture @ NYU, NYU's ACM (Association for Computing
Machinery) chapter, WinC (Women in Computing) and InfoLaw/NYU.
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Richard's bio:
Richard Stallman is the founder of the GNU Project, launched in
1984 to develop the free software operating system GNU. The name
``GNU'' is a recursive acronym for ``GNU's Not Unix''.
GNU is free software: everyone is free to copy it and
redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or
small. Non-free software keeps users divided and helpless,
forbidden to share it and unable to change it. A free operating
system is essential for people to be able to use computers in
freedom.
Today, Linux-based variants of the GNU system, based on the
kernel Linux developed by Linus Torvalds, are in widespread
use. There are estimated to be some 20 million users of GNU/Linux
systems today.
Richard Stallman is the principal author of the GNU Compiler
Collection, a portable optimizing compiler which was designed to
support diverse architectures and multiple languages. The
compiler now supports over 30 different architectures and 7
programming languages.
Stallman also wrote the GNU symbolic debugger (gdb), GNU Emacs,
and various other programs for the GNU operating system.
Stallman graduated from Harvard in 1974 with a BA in
physics. During his college years, he also worked as a staff
hacker at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, learning operating
system development by doing it. He wrote the first extensible
Emacs text editor there in 1975. He also developed the AI
technique of dependency-directed backtracking, also known as
truth maintenance. In January 1984 he resigned from MIT to start
the GNU project.
Stallman received the Grace Hopper award for 1991 from the
Association for Computing Machinery, for his development of the
first Emacs editor. In 1990 he was awarded a Macarthur foundation
fellowship, and in 1996 an honorary doctorate from the Royal
Institute of Technology in Sweden. In 1998 he received the
Electronic Frontier Foundation's pioneer award along with Linus
Torvalds. In 1999 he received the Yuri Rubinski award. In 2001 he
received a second honorary doctorate, from the University of
Glasgow, and shared the Takeda award for social/economic
betterment with Torvalds and Ken Sakamura. In 2002 he was elected
to the US National Academy of Engineering, and in 2003 to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2003 he was named an
honorary professor of the Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria in
Peru, and received an honorary doctorate from the Free University
of Brussels. In 2004 he received an honorary doctorate from the
Universidad Nacional de Salta, in Argentina.
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Evan Korth
Clinical Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department
New York University
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