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Aaron Swartz was born in Highland Park, 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Chicago, [2] [23] into a Jewish family. [24] He was the eldest child of Susan and Robert Swartz and brother to Noah and Ben Swartz. [1] [25] He was an atheist. [26] His father founded the software firm Mark Williams Company.
Feb 15, 2013 · The Brilliant Life and Tragic Death of Aaron Swartz. He was a child prodigy, an Internet pioneer and an activist who refused to back down - even when the feds tried to break him. I n the ...
Jan 12, 2013 · Internet Activist, a Creator of RSS, Is Dead at 26, Apparently a Suicide. Aaron Swartz in 2009. One person remembered him as “a complicated prodigy.”. Michael Francis McElroy/The New York ...
Jan 20, 2023 · “For me, Aaron Swartz is an icon. He embraced the hacker culture, using technology as an element of people’s liberation, to make knowledge available to others,” says Spanish engineer Jaime Gómez-Obregón, who has developed various digital tools to promote transparency in public sector contracting. The Swartz legacy lives on. His spiritual heir is Alexandra Elbakyan, known as the “Robin Hood of science.”
2013 Inductee. Aaron Swartz. Internet Hall of Fame Innovator, Posthumous Recipient. Aaron Swartz was a computer programming prodigy and activist who played an instrumental role in the campaign for a free and open Internet and used technology to fight social, corporate and political injustices. In 2000, at the age of 14, he co-authored RSS ...
Aaron Swartz is the founder of Demand Progress, which launched the campaign against the Internet censorship bills (SOPA/PIPA) and now has over a million members.He is also a Contributing Editor to The Baffler and on the Council of Advisors to The Rules.. He is a frequent television commentator and the author of numerous articles on a variety of topics, especially the corrupting influence of big money on institutions including nonprofits, the media, politics, and public opinion.From 2010-11 ...
Jan 13, 2013 · Aaron Swartz, a computer programmer and ardent internet activist who played a key role opposing 2011 anti-piracy legislation, was found dead on Friday at age 26. His family confirmed that he ...
Jan 13, 2013 · On Friday January 11, 2013, well-known online activist and hacker Aaron Swartz committed suicide in New York at the age of 26. An internet legend, Swartz had been active since he was in his early ...
Jan 14, 2013 · Aaron Swartz, the 26-year-old computer genius, activist, and technology innovator known as a hero of the open-access movement—which promotes use of the Internet to provide free and easy access to the world’s knowledge—committed suicide last Friday in New York City, according to authorities and various media outlets. He was a Safra fellow studying ethics at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society in July 2011 when a federal grand jury indicted him on charges of gaining illegal ...
Jul 6, 2014 · Aaron Swartz was a programmer, a hacker, a freedom of information activist — and a casualty of suicide. Before he turned 20, Swartz had made a fortune for his work on the social news website Reddit.
Sep 10, 2013 · When Aaron Swartz died in January 2013 at the age of 26, his ideals and his achievements had already put him in the company of Internet luminaries twice his age. For these achievements, he was inducted posthumously into the Internet Hall of Fame on Aug. 3 in Berlin. “His age didn’t matter,” Kahle said. “On the Internet, you’re judged by your contributions.” And these contributions were many.
Jan 14, 2013 · January 14, 2013. Tomorrow is the funeral for Aaron Swartz, the programmer and sometime activist who killed himself last Friday, while facing federal trial. No one knows, or will ever really know ...
Jan 12, 2013 · Aaron Swartz co-authored RSS and founded the company that later became the social media website Reddit. He was 14 when he co-authored RSS and later helped found the company that would become the ...
Jan 12, 2013 · Aaron Swartz committed suicide Friday in New York. He was 26 years old. When he was 14 years old, Aaron helped develop the RSS standard; he went on to found Infogami, which became part of Reddit.
Jan 12, 2013 · Aaron Swartz, 26, hanged himself in his Brooklyn apartment weeks before he was to go on trial on accusations that he stole millions of journal articles from an electronic archive in an attempt to ...
Jan 14, 2013 · Internet wizard Aaron Swartz has been found dead at his Brooklyn, N.Y., home. Authorities say Swartz, who helped create the web feed format RSS, committed suicide just weeks before going to trial ...
Mar 3, 2013 · Robert Swartz, Aaron Swartz’s father Aaron Swartz hanged himself in his apartment in Brooklyn on January 11th. He was twenty-six, but he had been well known as a computer programmer for many years.
Sep 25, 2014 · Opensource.com. A new documentary about the life of Aaron Swartz was released in June this year. It recounts the story of one of the most impactful young talents of the Internet age, and the tragic saga of his quest to make the world a better place. Directed by Brian Knappenberger, the film was funded through Kickstarter and backed by 1,531 ...
Kirkus Praise for Aaron Swartz: "What a bittersweet exhilaration you feel re-reading Swartz's impossibly brilliant, capacious writings all in one place. This volume makes clear what those of us who knew Aaron already grasped: when we lost Aaron, we lost one of the most exciting minds of our time." Chris Hayes "He was brilliant and funny. A kid genius Aaron was not just, or even primarily, a computer geek. His defining feature was a constant struggle for what he believed was right."
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Jan 13, 2013 · Aaron Swartz, who co-founded Reddit and became an Internet folk hero for fighting to make online content free to the public, committed suicide Friday. He was 26. Swartz hanged himself in his ...
Jun 27, 2014 · The most important quality in Aaron Swartz more than his technical ability was that he cared about people here and across the world who are living in misery under totalitarian capitalism. There are many who are tech wiz kids. But Aaron Swartz was the socially conscious IT wizard.
Jun 27, 2014 · The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz: Directed by Brian Knappenberger. With Tim Berners-Lee, Cindy Cohn, Gabriella Coleman, Cory Doctorow. The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz, who took his own life at the age of 26.
Aaron Swartz is a British actor and theatre and film director who has appeared in plays, movies, commercials and television series in the United States and Europe. His first film appearance was in The Lords of Discipline, a 1983 film adaptation of the Pat Conroy novel; Swartz played a senior at an American military academy. In 1994, he played Cutter, the lead role in the video game Burn:Cycle.
