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[Nagarjuna G.]

JNU Event

JNU SCIENCE FORUM



Invites All to 
A Public Meeting on



FREE SOFTWARE MOVEMENT:
A PERSPECTIVE




Speaker

RICHARD STALLMAN
	Chairperson, Free Software Foundation






13th February 2003
(Thursday)
9.30 P.M.
Ganga Hostel Mess





Richard Stallman is the founder of the gnu project, launched in 1984
to develop the free operating system GNU or more popularly known as
Linux. Principal author of the GNU compiler collection designed to
support diverse architectures and multiple languages, which now
supports over 30 different architectures and 7 programming
languages. Stallman also wrote the GNU Symbolic Debugger (GDB), GNU
emacs, and various other GNU programs.

Stallman graduated in physics from Harvard in 1974. 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 extensive emacs text editor there in 1975. 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 1996 he was awarded 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.