[UFO Chicago] ANN: Richard Stallman Distinguished Lecture

[Brian Sobolak]

Forwarding on from LUNI...  I'll probably go to this if anyone from UFO is
interested in joining me.  (Of course, we have a meeting the night before
in case we want to make signs that say "HURD RULEZ" or "SING THE GNU SONG
PLEASE RITCHIE".)

brian

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Subject: [LUNI] ANN: Richard Stallman Distinguished Lecture
From:    "Samir Faci" <samir at esamir.com>
Date:    Wed, April 5, 2006 15:30
To:      luni-announce at luni.org
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This is open to the public, everyone is welcome to attend, just passing
the info for anyone interested.

Samir Faci



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Dear all,

    Please find information about Richard Stallman's talk on Apr 28 below.

--venkat
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April 28, 2006: *Seminar: * The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux
Operating System*


    The University of Illinois at Chicago


    Department of Computer Science


    2005-2006 Distinguished Lecturer Seminar Series


      The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System


        Richard M. Stallman
        GNU project and Free Software Foundation
        Friday, April 28, 2006
        11:00 a.m., Lecture Center B1


*Abstract:*

Richard Stallman will speak about the purpose, goals, philosophy,
methods, status, and future prospects of the GNU operating system,  "GNU''
is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not Unix''. GNU is free
software <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html>: everyone is free to
copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or
small. Today, Linux-based variants of the GNU system, based on the kernel
Linux developed by Linus Torvalds, are in widespread use. There are
estimated to be some 20 million users of GNU/Linux systems
<http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html> today.

*Brief Bio:*

Richard Stallman is the founder of the GNU Project
<http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html>, launched in 1984 to develop
the free software operating system GNU <http://www.gnu.org/gnu>. Richard
Stallman is the principal author of the GNU Compiler Collection
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html>, a portable optimizing
compiler which was designed to support diverse architectures and
multiple languages. The compiler now supports over 30 different
architectures and 7 programming languages. Stallman also wrote the GNU
symbolic debugger (gdb) <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/gdb.html>, GNU
Emacs <http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html>, and various other
programs for the GNU operating system.

Stallman 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 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, and in 1996 an
honorary doctorate from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. In
1998 he received the Electronic Frontier Foundation's pioneer award  along
with Linus Torvalds. In 1999 he received the Yuri Rubinski award.  In 2001
he received a second honorary doctorate, from the University of  Glasgow,
and shared the Takeda award for social/economic betterment with  Torvalds
and Ken Sakamura. In 2002 he was elected to the US National  Academy of
Engineering, and in 2003 to the American Academy of Arts and  Sciences. In
2003 he was named an honorary professor of the Universidad  Nacional de
Ingenieria in Peru, and received an honorary doctorate from  the Free
University of Brussels. In 2004 he received an honorary
doctorate from the Universidad Nacional de Salta, in Argentina.

*Note:*

Richard Stallman's lecture on the Free Software Movement is scheduled to
last one and half hours with questions following, somewhat longer than the
usual CS Distinguished Lecture. This is a unique opportunity to  learn the
history behind a significant philosophical movement in modern
computer systems. Please arrange your schedule so you can participate
fully in this event.

*Host: Professor Venkat Venkatakrishnan*


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