[Campus-uw-staff] Richard Stallman Talk - Monday Oct. 26 3:30-5pm

[Benj. Mako Hill]

Greetings!

I'm hosting a talk by Richard Stallman in the Communication Department
next Monday (October 26) at 3:30-5pm. Can you all forward this to
other lists, student groups, or departments that might be interested?

Here are the details:

Speaker: Richard M. Stallman
  Title: Free Software and Your Freedom
   When: Monday October 26, 2015 at 3:30-5pm
  Where: Communications Building (CMU) 120 at UW
Summary: Richard Stallman will introduce and discuss the free software
         movement. The free software movement campaigns for computer
         users' freedom to cooperate and control their own
         computing. The Free Software Movement developed the GNU
         operating system, typically used together with the kernel
         Linux, specifically to make these freedoms possible.

Biography:

Richard is a software developer and software freedom activist. In 1983
he announced the project to develop the GNU operating system, a
Unix-like operating system meant to be entirely free software, and has
been the project's leader ever since. With that announcement Richard
also launched the Free Software Movement. In October 1985 he started
the Free Software Foundation.

Since the mid-1990s, Richard has spent most of his time in political
advocacy for free software, and spreading the ethical ideas of the
movement, as well as campaigning against both software patents and
dangerous extension of copyright laws. Before that, Richard developed
a number of widely used software components of GNU, including the
original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU symbolic debugger
(gdb), GNU Emacs, and various other programs for the GNU operating
system. Richard pioneered the concept of copyleft, and is the main
author of the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free
software license.

Richard 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 has received many awards and accolades including a MacArthur
Foundation Fellowship, the ACM's Grace Murray Hopper award, and more
than a dozen honorary doctorates.

Regards,
Mako

-- 
Benjamin Mako Hill
http://mako.cc/academic/

Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far
as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto