Brewster Kahle (last name pronounced "kale", like the vegetable) was an early member of the Thinking Machines team and later went on to found WAIS (sold to AOL) and later Alexa Internet (sold to Amazon.com). He also founded and continues to run (as of 2005) the Internet Archive. His goal is "Universal Access to all Knowledge". Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Kale is the name of several things: Kale (the name has one syllable) is a kind of cabbage (Brassica oleracea) which is unusual in that the central leaves do not form a head. ... Thinking Machines Corporation was a supercomputer manufacturer founded in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1982 by W. Daniel Hillis and Sheryl Handler to turn Hilliss doctoral work at MIT on parallel computing architectures into a commercial product called the Connection Machine. ... WAIS: Acronym for Wide Area Information Servers. ... America Online, or AOL for short, is a corporate online service provider and Internet service provider (ISP). ... For the Genus Alaexa, see Alexa (genus) Alexa Internet, located in Building 37 of the Presidio of San Francisco, is a California-based subsidiary of Amazon. ... Amazon. ... Internet Archive, San Francisco The Internet Archive (archive. ...
As of March 2005 Kahle is a plaintiff, along with film archivist and fellow Internet Archive contributor Rick Prelinger, in Kahle v. Ashcroft. The plaintiffs in that case hold that the striking of the renewal requirement on copyrighted works (in the Berne Convention Implementation Act and Copyright Term Extension Act) stands in violation of the First Amendment by preventing orphaned works from entering the public domain. Rick Prelinger is an archivist, writer and filmmaker. ... The copyright symbol is used to give notice that a work is covered by copyright. ... The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works sometimes called the Berne Union or Berne Convention, adopted at Berne in 1886, first established the recognition of copyrights between sovereign nations. ... In the United States, the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 extended the duration of U.S. copyrights by 20 years. ... The first ten Amendments to the U.S. Constitution make up the Bill of Rights. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ...
IT Conversations - Universal Access to All Knowledge (http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail400.html) - Audio program featuring Brewster Kahle. 16 December 2004
Kahle believes that technology should be used to allow human creativity to flower, and he has managed to put this idea into practice for twenty years.
BrewsterKahle has long been part of the CNI community; he presented plenary addresses at Coalition meetings in 1992 and 1998.
Kahle will receive the Paul Evan Peters Award and deliver a plenary address at the Spring 2004 CNI Task Force Meeting, to be held April 15-16, in Alexandria, Virginia.
Feeds |
Contact