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Aaron Swartz was born in Highland Park, 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Chicago, [2] [23] into a Jewish family. [24] He was the eldest child of Susan and Robert Swartz and brother to Noah and Ben Swartz. [1] [25] He was an atheist. [26] His father founded the software firm Mark Williams Company.
- January 11, 2013 (aged 26), New York City, U.S.
- Suicide by hanging
- Aaron Hillel Swartz, November 8, 1986, Highland Park, Illinois, U.S.
The Brilliant Life and Tragic Death of Aaron Swartz. He was a child prodigy, an Internet pioneer and an activist who refused to back down - even when the feds tried to break him. I n the ...
Jan 13, 2013 · On Friday January 11, 2013, well-known online activist and hacker Aaron Swartz committed suicide in New York at the age of 26. An internet legend, Swartz had been active since he was in his early ...
Jan 20, 2023 · “For me, Aaron Swartz is an icon. He embraced the hacker culture, using technology as an element of people’s liberation, to make knowledge available to others,” says Spanish engineer Jaime Gómez-Obregón, who has developed various digital tools to promote transparency in public sector contracting. The Swartz legacy lives on.
Jan 14, 2013 · Remembering internet activist Aaron Swartz. On Friday, Aaron Swartz — the 26-year-old internet innovator who helped create RSS and had a hand in the building of Reddit — was found dead in his apartment in an apparent suicide. Swartz, who suffered from depression, had reportedly found out just days before that a plea bargain deal with ...
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Jan 12, 2013 · Internet Activist, a Creator of RSS, Is Dead at 26, Apparently a Suicide. Aaron Swartz in 2009. One person remembered him as “a complicated prodigy.”. Michael Francis McElroy/The New York ...
2013 Inductee. Aaron Swartz. Internet Hall of Fame Innovator, Posthumous Recipient. Aaron Swartz was a computer programming prodigy and activist who played an instrumental role in the campaign for a free and open Internet and used technology to fight social, corporate and political injustices. In 2000, at the age of 14, he co-authored RSS ...
