Richard Stallman

By Sadurn1
  • Birth

    Birth

    Richard Stallman (RMS) is born.

  • Attended Harvard

  • Period: to

    Worked at MIT AI Lab

    He was "learning operating system development by doing it, except for the year he was a graduate student." (A Serious Bio)

  • Graduated Harvard

    "Graduated with a Bachelor's of Arts in physics." (A Serious Bio)
  • Period: to

    Graduate Student

    During this time period, Stallman was a graduate student in physics at MIT (A Serious Bio).

  • Wrote the first Emacs text editor

    "He wrote the first extensible Emacs text editor there in 1976, and developed the AI technique of dependency-directed backtracking, also known as truth maintenance." (A Serious Bio)

  • Resigns from MIT

    Begins work on GNU operating system, "a Unix-like operating system meant to be entirely free software" (A Serious Bio)

  • Formed Free Software Foundation

    At this time "he started the Free Software Foundation, of which he is president as a full-time volunteer." (A Serious Bio)

  • Calls for online Encyclopedia

    Stallman called for development of a free on-line encyclopedia through the means of inviting the public to contribute articles.