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Brewster Kahle, 2015
Brewster Kahle shows digitization technology from the Internet Archive, March 29, 2013.

Brewster Kahle [ ˈkeɪl ] (born October 22, 1960 in New York ) is an American computer scientist , entrepreneur and activist . He heads the Internet Archive he founded in 1996 .

Kahle studied computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and became known as one of the architects of the supercomputer Connection Machine . Today he is the driving force and main financier of the Internet Archive, which has set itself the goal of creating a library of all content that has ever been accessible on the Internet.

Life

Kahle grew up in the New York suburb of Scarsdale , where he attended Scarsdale High School . His father was a mechanical engineer . Kahle studied computer science and technical computer science with a major in artificial intelligence at MIT with Marvin Minsky and W. Daniel Hillis .

After graduating, Kahle worked for the supercomputer manufacturer Thinking Machines , where he headed the development of the Connection Machine from 1983 to 1989. Also for Thinking Machines, he was involved in setting up the early Internet search service WAIS , and he also developed an early search engine and indexing software that made the entire inventory of the Dow Jones News Service, consisting of hundreds of newspaper and magazine archives, electronically available. In 1992, together with Harry Morris, Kahle founded his first company, WAIS Inc. In 1995, AOL bought WAIS Inc. for an estimated $ 15 million and in 1996, Kahle founded Alexa Internet, which was sold in 1999 for $ 250 million by Amazon.com was bought. At the same time as Alexa, Kahle founded the Internet Archive, which he still manages today.

In March 2004 he sued against the repeal of the previous regulation, according to which copyrights expire after a certain period of time if no extension is requested. A temporally unlimited copyright (as provided for in the Berne Convention Implementation Act and de facto in the Copyright Term Extension Act ) contradicts his legal opinion that works that have been "abandoned" by the authors for a long time are to be regarded as public domain .

In 2007 Kahle started the project of a “world library” with Open Library . He was also elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005 .

Web links

Commons : Brewster Kahle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A Library as Big as the World , in: Bloomberg Businessweek , accessed January 6, 2015.
  2. ↑ Brewster Kahle: About ( August 12, 2011 memento in the Internet Archive ), in: Brewster Kahle's Blog , accessed January 6, 2015.
  3. ^ Archiving every book ever published , in: Los Angeles Times , accessed January 6, 2015.
  4. ↑ Torsten Kleinz: "The New World Library" . In: Zeit Online , August 15, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Bald, Brewster
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and activist
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH new York