Richard Stallman By: Savannah Hughes

By SavannahHughes

  • Born

    New York City, NY
    Known as "RMS"
  • Grad School at MIT

    Grad School at MIT

  • Graduated from Harvard

    Graduated from Harvard

    Bachelor of Arts in Physics

  • Published Paper: "Dependency-directed backtracking"

    Stallman and Gerry Susan published this paper regarding the AI truth maintenance system.
  • Started GNU Project

    Started GNU Project

    Richard Stallman created the free-software, mass-collaboration project. (Stands for Gnu's Not Unix)
    https://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.en.html
  • Wrote GNU Manifesto

    Wrote GNU Manifesto

  • Started Free Software Foundation

    Started Free Software Foundation

  • Called for Apple Boycott

    Called for Apple Boycott

  • Co-Founded League for Programming Freedom

    Co-Founded League for Programming Freedom

  • First program-independent GNU General Public License (GPL) was released

  • Created GNUpedia

    Created GNUpedia

  • United States National Academy of Engineering membership

    United States National Academy of Engineering membership

  • Honorary Doctorate From The Vrije Universiteit

  • Persuaded officials to discard proprietary software in Kerala

  • Honorary of Doctor of Science from Lakehead University- Canada

  • Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame

    Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame

  • Spoke on Ted Talks

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1AKIl_2GM&vl=en