Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and internet-political activist
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- Bachelors Computer Science Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Aaron Hillel Swartz was an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, writer, political organizer, and Internet hacktivist. As a programmer, Swartz helped develop the web feed format RSS; the technical architecture for Creative Commons, an organization dedicated to creating copyright licenses; the website framework web.py; and Markdown, a lightweight markup language format. Swartz was involved in the development of the social news aggregation website Reddit until he departed from the company in 2007. He is often credited as a martyr and a prodigy, and his work focused on civic awareness and activism.
Aaron Swartz's Published Works
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- MusicBrainz: A Semantic Web Service (2002) (137)
- application/rdf+xml Media Type Registration (2004) (17)
- Guerilla Open Access Manifesto (2008) (15)
- The Semantic Web: A Network of Content for the Digital City (2007) (14)
- Aaron Swartz's The Programmable Web: An Unfinished Work (2013) (11)
- UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW REVIEW AND AMERICAN LAW REGISTER (2017) (4)
- Day 12 (2020) (1)
- Salmon Morphological Matrix (project) (2014) (0)
- Building Progammable Web Sites (2012) (0)
- Salmon Morphological Matrix [X1379] (matrix) (2014) (0)
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