Department of Computer Science
San Jose State University
Special Talk: The Free Software
Movement
By Richard
Stallman
Founder of the Free Software Foundation
and the GNU Project and author of the GNU General Public Licence
Tuesday, September 11, 2007, 3 p.m.
Umunhum Room, 2nd Floor, Student Union,
San Jose State University
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. This speech will be accessible to all
audiences and the public is encouraged to attend. For more information
call the SJSU CS Department at (408) 924-5060.
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''. He graduated from Harvard in
1974 with a BA in physics. He 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. In 1998 he
received the Electronic Frontier Foundation's pioneer award along with
Linus Torvalds. In 2002 he was elected to the US National Academy of
Engineering, and in 2003 to the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences.He is also the recipient of several honorary doctorates from
universities around the world.
Personal Web Site: http://www.stallman.org/
Free Software Foundation Web Site:
http://www.fsf.org/