Developed dependency-directed backtracking AI techniques
Developed Emacs
Published EMACS: The Extensible, Customizable, Self-Documenting Display Editor
Launched the Free Software Movement and announced the development of the GNU Operating System
Began working on GNU
Established the Free Software Foundation
Became honorary life time membership in the Chalmers Computer Society
Received the Association for Computing's Grace Murray Hopper Award "For pioneering work in the development of the extensible editor EMACS (Editing Macros)."
Received MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
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Visiting scientist at MIT
Received doctorate honoris causa from Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology
Received Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award
Called for the development of a free online encyclopedia, inspiring the development of Wikipedia
Received Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award
Received the Takeda Techno-Entrepreneurship Award for Social/Economic Well-Being
Received doctorate honoris causa from the University of Glasgow
Received United States National Academy of Engineering membership
Published GNU Emacs Manual
Received doctorate honoris causa from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Received honorary professorship from the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería del Perú
Received honorary professorship from the Universidad Tecnológica del Perú
Received doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad Nacional de Salta, in Argentina
Co-published GNU Make: A Program for Directed Compilation
Received Fondazione Pistoletto prize
Received doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad de Los Angeles de Chimbote, in Peru
Received honorary professorship from the Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, in Peru
Received First Premio Internacional Extremadura al Conocimiento Libre
Received doctorate honoris causa from the University of Pavia
Received doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, in Peru
Received Doctor of Science honoris causa from Lakehead University in Canada
Received doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, in Argentina
Received honorary professorship from the Universidad César Vallejo de Trujillo, in Peru
Received doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad José Faustino Sanchez Carrión, in Peru
Received doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad Latinoamericana Cima de Tacna, in Peru
Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame
Received doctorate honoris causa from Concordia University in Canada
Received doctorate honoris causa from Universidad las Américas in Peru
Published Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman (Third Ed.)
Received the Association for Computing's Software and Systems Award for development of GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection
Received doctorate honoris causa from Université Pierre et Marie Curie in France
Received doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad Nacional de Jujuy in Argentina
Received honorary professorship from the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional in Mendoza, in Argentina
Received doctorate honoris causa from the Universidad de Tucumán, in Argentina