- Free Software in Ethics and in Practice
Speaker: Dr. Richard M. Stallman, Free Software Foundation
Date: Saturday, 7/31/2010
Time: 2:00-4:30PM
Location: Room 312, NPU South Building, 47655-B Warm Springs Blvd., Fremont, CA 94539
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Abstract:
The Free Software Movement campaigns for computer users' freedom to cooperate and control their own computing. The Free Software Movement developed the GNU operating system, typically used together with the kernel Linux, specifically to make these freedoms possible.
Richard Stallman will speak about the goals and philosophy of the Free Software Movement, and the status and history of the GNU operating system, which in combination with the kernel Linux is now used by tens of millions of users world-wide.
Introduction to the speaker:
Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating system (see www.gnu.org) in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award, and the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates.
Richard is a software developer and software freedom activist. In 1983 he announced the project to develop the GNU operating system, a Unix-like operating system meant to be entirely free software, and has been the project's leader ever since. With that announcement Richard also launched the Free Software Movement. In October 1985 he started the Free Software Foundation.
Since the mid-1990s, Richard has spent most of his time in political advocacy for free software, and spreading the ethical ideas of the movement, as well as campaigning against both software patents and dangerous extension of copyright laws. Before that, Richard developed a number of widely used software components of the GNU system, including the original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU symbolic debugger (gdb), GNU Emacs, and various other programs for the GNU operating system.
Richard pioneered the concept of copyleft, and is the main author of the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license.
Richard 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, learning operating system development by doing it. He wrote the first extensible Emacs text editor there in 1975. He also developed the AI technique of dependency-directed backtracking, also known as truth maintenance. In January 1984 he resigned from MIT to start the GNU project.
To learn more information about Richard Stallman, please visit http://stallman.org/.
To check out previous seminar details, please visit http://www.npu.edu/seminars.
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An Invitation to Beijing Zhongguancun Science Park's 2008 Year-end Tour Event
(December 21st—24th, 2008)
Who Should Participate?
If you were born in China, and were educated in abroad, and you have been thinking about starting up your business in Beijing, or even just want to know about today’s Beijing Zhongguancun Science Park, you should go and take a look at it.
What is the Agenda of the Event?
Dec 21, Sunday, 15:00—21:00 Check-in at Beijing Ziyu Hotel (55 Zengguang Road, Haidian, Beijing, Tel: 6841-1188, www.ziyuhotel.cn
Dec 22, Monday, Tour to the Park and Tsinghua University
Dec 23, Tuesday, A lecture by the Park’s officer, and tour to the Park
Dec 24, Wednesday, Check out
12月21日（周日）15：00---21：00报到（地点：北京市紫玉饭店,地址：海淀区增光路55号，电话：010－68411188,网址： http://www.ziyuhotel.cn
12月22日（周一）参观园区（北清路、生命科学园、软件园、永丰产业基地、海淀创业园、清华大学留学人员创业园等）
12月23日（周二）中关村管委会领导《创业中关村》报告会（国际孵化器），参观园区。
12月24日（周三）考察结束，代表团中午12：00前退房。
What Will We Provide?
Beijing Zhongguancun Science Park will provide to the participants 3 nights of hotel room (double occupancy) and meals for free during the event.
What Should You do?
1) Contact me (see below) to get the application form
2) Fill in the form and send it back to me
3) When get approved, make your traveling plan (the participants are responsible for their own air tickets)
4) Show up there at the hotel on time on Dec 21, 2008, you will be all set!
Whom to Contact?
For application forms and questions, please feel free to contact Mr. Frank Tan, Chief Representative of Beijing Zhongguancun Science Park in Silicon Valley at:
(Mobile) 408-406-3118, or email: ftan@zgc-usa.com
We also welcome those who are traveling to China during that period of time for whatever reasons, and those who have already been settled down in China with their start-up businesses, to apply for participation.
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AAMA Connect 2008 Conference
Time: Friday, October 3, 2008
Venue: Hyatt Regency Santa Clara Hotel, 5101 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA
Highlight:
The AAMA annual Connect conference brings together professionals in Internet, digital media, enterprise software, semiconductors, electronics, mobile wireless, telecommunications, venture capital, law, banking, consulting, and public relations to exchange thoughts and ideas related to conducting business in Asia and the Pacific Rim.
To attend: http://www.aamasv.com/connect2008/
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Wuxi Venture and Innovation Entrepreneurship Forum
Date: Oct.9 ~ 10, 2008
Place: Wuxi, China
Registration: Please download the form here and register earlier.
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