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His first experience with actual computers was at the IBM New York Scientific Center when he was in high school. He was hired for the summer in 1970, following his senior year of high school, to write a numerical analysis program in Fortran. [11] .
Born in 1953, Stallman graduated Harvard in 1974 in physics. He worked at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab from 1971 to 1984, developing system software including the first extensible text editor Emacs (1976), plus the AI technique of dependency-directed backtracking, also known as truth maintenance (1975).
Jul 4, 2024 · Richard Stallman (born March 16, 1953, New York, New York, U.S.) is an American computer programmer and free-software advocate who founded (1985) the Free Software Foundation. Stallman earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvard University in 1974.
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Stallman was born to Daniel Stallman and Alice Lippman in 1953 in New York City, New York. Hired by the IBM New York Scientific Center, Stallman spent the summer after his high-school graduation writing his first program, a preprocessor for the PL/I programming language on the IBM 360.
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Aug 17, 2015 · School of Information Science - Hall of Fame. Richard M. Stallman. Born: March 16, 1953. Field: Computer science; free software. Focus: Started the Free Software movement. Founder of the GNU project, the Free Software Foundation, and the League for Programming Freedom. Country: United States. Era: 1990 to present.
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Stallman was born March 16, 1953, [citation needed] in New York City, to a family of Jewish heritage, though Stallman is an atheist. His parents are Alice Lippman, a school teacher, and Daniel Stallman, a printing press broker.
