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  Richard M. Stallman - List of Achievements and Awards

   * 1953 Born in New York City

   * 1970 Graduates from High School, enters Harvard University.

   * 1971 Is hired by MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab as a researcher.

   * 1974 Graduates from Harvard University with a BA in Physics.

   * 1975 Writes first version of Emacs, the first text editor able to display text interactively
   as it is being edited.

   * 1984 Resigns from MIT's AI Lab in protest of its growing restrictive policy on copyrights
   and launches the GNU Project to develop a freely distributable operating system.

   * 1985 Co-founds the non-profit Free Software Foundation to manage the GNU Project.

   * 1985 Begins the GNU Compiler Collection, now the most popular compiler in the world.

   * 1990 Receives a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in Computer Science.

   * 1991 Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery for development
   of the first Emacs editor in the 1970s.

   * 1996 Honorary doctorate from the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

   * 1998 Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award for founding the GNU Project.

   * 1999 Yuri Rubinsky Award, presented by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

   * 2001 Honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow.

   * 2001 Receives Takeda Award 2001 Techno-Entrepreneurial Achievements for Social/Economic
   Well-Being. Shared with Ken Sakamura and Linus Torvalds.

   * 2002 Elected to the US National Academy of Engineering.

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