ColloquiaRichard M. Stallman talk - October 31, 2001

[Margery Ishmael]

LECTURE BY RICHARD M. STALLMAN

"Free Software Movement and GNU/Linux"

Date: Wednesday, October 31,  2001
Time: 	4:30 p.m.
Place: Max Palevsky Theater, Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 East 59th Street

Richard Stallman will speak about the purpose, goals, philosophy, methods, 
status, and future prospects of the GNU operating system, which in 
combination with the Linux kernel is now used by an estimated 17 to 20 
million users world wide.

Richard Stallman graduated from Harvard in 1974 with a BA in 
physics.  During his college years, he also worked as a staff hacker at the 
MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab.  In January 1984 he resigned from MIT to 
start the GNU Project, an endeavor to develop a free operating system.

Sponsored by The University of Chicago Computer Science Department, the 
Computation Institute, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, and the 
Student ACM Chapter