[Chicago-talk] Fwd: Stallman lecture Room -- in room **302** SCE (CCC)

[Joshua McAdams]

I'm not sure if I've seen this message pass by the Chicago.pm list or
not, but it looks like Richard Stallman will be at UIC this Friday at
11 am.  I don't think that I'll make it, but if someone from
Chicago.pm does, be sure to mention YAPC to a couple of folks ;)

>  >> *The University of Illinois at Chicago
>  >> Department of Computer Science
>  >>
>  >> **2005-2006 Distinguished Lecturer Series
>  >> *
>  >> *Title: 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.*
>  >> * _302 Student Center East (a.k.a. CCC)
>  >> _
>  >> ** 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.
>  >> *
>  >>  *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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