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Aaron Swartz was born in Highland Park, 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Chicago, [2] [23] into a Jewish family. [24] He was the eldest child of Susan and Robert Swartz and brother to Noah and Ben Swartz. [1] [25] He was an atheist. [26] His father founded the software firm Mark Williams Company.
The Brilliant Life and Tragic Death of Aaron Swartz. He was a child prodigy, an Internet pioneer and an activist who refused to back down - even when the feds tried to break him. I n the ...
Jan 12, 2013 · Internet Activist, a Creator of RSS, Is Dead at 26, Apparently a Suicide. Aaron Swartz in 2009. One person remembered him as “a complicated prodigy.”. Michael Francis McElroy/The New York ...
Jan 20, 2023 · A decade after his suicide, the computer programmer and activist is remembered as a martyr of the Freedom of Information movement. He downloaded millions of scientific articles, hacked into judicial files and collaborated with WikiLeaks.
Jan 13, 2013 · Aaron Swartz, a celebrated internet freedom activist and early developer of the website Reddit, has died at 26. The activist and programmer took his life in his New York apartment, a relative and ...
Jul 6, 2014 · Aaron Swartz was a programmer, a hacker, a freedom of information activist — and a casualty of suicide. Before he turned 20, Swartz had made a fortune for his work on the social news website Reddit.
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Jan 14, 2013 · A suicide is always a tragedy, but that of 26-year-old Aaron Swartz on Friday has reverberated with particular force across the internet. That’s partly because of the enormous sense of waste ...