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Richard Stallman was born in New York City
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Stalllman worked at a MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab for 12 years, only taking a break while attending graduate school in 1974.
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Stallman attended Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he studied physics
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Stallman further studied physics in grad school at MIT.
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Stallman wrote the first extensible Emacs text editor at the MIT in 1976.
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In 1983 Stallman announced his idea for a GNU Operating System that is entirely free
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Stallman resigned from MIT to continue pursuing his GNU Operating System
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In October of 1985, Stallman created the Free Software Foundation
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Stallman received the National Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award
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Stallman was the recipient of the Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award in 1999
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In late 1999 Stallman advocated for the creation of a free online encyclopedia in which the public can contribute to articles
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Stallman comprised a book together based off short essays on writings of his in the past
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Stallman collaborated with author Sam Williams to create a autobiography of his life
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Stallman received the Fondazione Pistoletto prize in the year 2005
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In the year 2013, Stallman was Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame
