An International Group of Computer Hackers Will Honor One of Their Own Tonight At The MIT Media Lab.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- WHAT: First Annual Free Software Award WHO: Presented by the Free Software Foundation WHEN: October 9th, 1998 Reception & Music 7-10 pm Presentation 8pm (By invitation only) WHERE: MIT Media Lab This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. , The Wiesner Building The Wiesner Building houses the MIT Media Lab, the Center for Bits and Atoms (Neil Gershenfeld's lab) and the List Visual Arts Center. It was designed by Ieoh Ming Pei & Partners. , 20 Ames Street, Cambridge Two hundred computer and other professionals will gather tonight at the MIT Media Lab for a presentation of the first Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software The Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software is annually presented by the Free Software Foundation to a person who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of free software, through activities that accord with the spirit of free . Afterward, see the citation of the winner, and more, at http://www.gnu.org/gnu/award.html. The Free Software Foundation was founded about fifteen years ago by Richard Stallman (person) Richard Stallman - Richard M. Stallman. Founder of the GNU project. He resigned from the AI lab at MIT so he would be free to produce free software which he could then distribute on his own terms. , recipient of the MacArthur "genius" award and internationally reknowned hacker. The Award will be given to a person who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of free software, through activities that accord with the spirit of free software: "free" as in freedom to copy, to modify, and to redistribute. Finalists --------- The Apache Project is a collaborative effort that created and maintains Apache, the most popular HTTP server, or server of web pages. Donald J. Becker was nominated for his network device drivers for the GNU/Linux system and for the Beowulf project. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web and now directs the W3 Consortium, whose mission is to realize the full potential of the Web. L. Peter Deutsch L. Peter Deutsch is the founder of Aladdin Enterprises and creator of Ghostscript, a free software PostScript interpreter. Deutsch's other work includes the definitive Smalltalk implementation that, among other innovations, inspired Java just-in-time technology 15 or-so was nominated for Ghostscript, an interpreter for the PostScript(TM) language and the cornerstone of most free software printing systems. Jordan Hubbard is one founder of the FreeBSD Project, which maintains an advanced BSD UNIX operating system for PC-compatible computers. Donald Knuth, one of the acknowledged fathers of computer science, was nominated for his TeX typesetting typesetting: see printing. typesetting Setting of type for use in any of various printing processes. Type for printing, using woodblocks, was invented in China in the 11th century, and movable type using metal molds had appeared in Korea by the 13th system and for his technique of literate programming. Ted Lemon was nominated for his work with the Internet Software Consortium, a nonprofit corporation nonprofit corporation n. an organization incorporated under state laws and approved by both the state's Secretary of State and its taxing authority as operating for educational, charitable, social, religious, civic or humanitarian purposes. that develops publicly-available code for key portions of the Internet infrastructure. Brian Paul is the author of the Mesa 3D Graphics library. Eric S. Raymond (person) Eric S. Raymond - One of the authors of the Hacker's Jargon File. Eric was involved in the JOLT project and GNU Emacs as well as maintaining several FAQ lists. He is a keen advocate of open source. http://ccil.org/~esr. E-mail: <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> was nominated for his writings, especially "The Cathedral and the Bazaar," the essay Netscape Communications cited as a major factor in its decision to release its browser as "open source." Henry Spencer was nominated for his writings and for his many works as a UNIX systems programmer, especially tools for subtle handling of expressions and strings. Larry Wall is the author of several classic programs and of Perl, now the most popular language for processing text such as forms submitted via the Web. |
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