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3 unusual facts about Brewster Kahle


Internet Memory Foundation

An announcement at the opening of the Cross Media Week in Amsterdam during September 2006 included a quote from Brewster Kahle, who founded the Internet Archive.

Kahle

Brewster Kahle (born 1960), American internet entrepreneur and digital librarian

Kahle v. Gonzales

Four plaintiffs, the Internet Archive along with its founder, Brewster Kahle, and the Prelinger Archives and its founder Rick Prelinger, brought the suit against the government for changing the copyright regime.


Alexa Internet

Alexa Internet was founded in 1996 by American web entrepreneurs Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat.

Copyright Renewal Act of 1992

In 2007, four plaintiffs, the Internet Archive, its founder, Prelinger Archives, and its founder, filed a suit against the US Government for changing the copyright system in the Ninth Circuit (See Kahle v. Gonzales).

IOS

The closed and proprietary nature of iOS has garnered criticism, particularly by digital rights advocates such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, computer engineer and activist Brewster Kahle, Internet-law specialist Jonathan Zittrain, and the Free Software Foundation who protested the iPad's introductory event and have targeted the iPad with their "Defective by Design" campaign.

W. Daniel Hillis

At Thinking Machines Corporation, Hillis built a technical team with many people that would later become leaders in science and industry including Brewster Kahle, Guy Steele, Sydney Brenner, David Waltz, Jack Schwartz, and Eric Lander.

Wide area information server

Two of the developers of WAIS, Brewster Kahle and Harry Morris, left Thinking Machines to found WAIS Inc in Menlo Park, California with Bruce Gilliat.


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