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Jul 30, 2013 · Compilation of the report, “MIT and the Prosecution of Aaron Swartz,” was led by Hal Abelson, the Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, at the request of MIT President L. Rafael Reif in January. In conducting his review, Abelson was joined by MIT economist and Institute Professor emeritus Peter Diamond; attorney ...
Jan 15, 2013 · Aaron Swartz, the 26-year-old Internet genius, was eulogized on Tuesday as a person who wanted to make the world better but was hounded into killing himself by harsh government policies.
Jan 12, 2013 · Aaron Swartz committed suicide Friday in New York. He was 26 years old. When he was 14 years old, Aaron helped develop the RSS standard; he went on to found Infogami, which became part of Reddit.
Jan 15, 2013 · Aaron Swartz, young Internet innovator, committed suicide Friday . Swartz helped create RSS, founded company that later merged with Reddit. Analyst: Swartz's biggest impact may have been his ...
In United States of America v.Aaron Swartz, Aaron Swartz, an American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist, was prosecuted for multiple violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (CFAA), after downloading academic journal articles through the MIT computer network from a source for which he had an account as a Harvard research fellow.
Jul 30, 2013 · MIT and the Prosecution of Aaron Swartz. In January 2013, MIT President L. Rafael Reif asked Professor Hal Abelson to lead a thorough analysis of MIT's involvement in the Aaron Swartz matter, from the time that MIT first perceived unusual activity on its network in fall 2010 up to the time of Aaron Swartz's suicide on January 11, 2013. On July ...
