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Colloquium d’Informatique de Sorbonne Université

Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation

Tuesday, October 11, 2016 17:30
Amphi 44, Sorbonne University - Faculté des Sciences

What Makes Digital Inclusion Good Or Bad?

Richard Stallman launched the free software movement in 1983 and started the development of the GNU operating system (see www.gnu.org) in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, with or without changes. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award, and the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several doctorates honoris causa, and has been inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame.

There are many threats to freedom in the digital society. They include massive surveillance, censorship, digital handcuffs, nonfree software that controls users, and the War on Sharing. Computers for voting make election results untrustworthy. Other threats come from use of web services. Finally, we have no assured right to make any particular use of the Internet; every activity is precarious, permitted only as long as companies are willing to cooperate with our doing it.

Electronic access

Richard Stallman

About

Launched in 2012, the Colloquium d’Informatique de Sorbonne Université is a recurring event that invites major figures of the computer science field to give special lectures on the campus of Sorbonne University’s Science and Engineering Faculty. It targets a diverse yet technically-informed audience, and especially computer science researchers from all specialities, PhD students, and computer science students at master level.

The Colloquium’s main event is the invited speaker’s lecture, a 45-minute talk followed by questions and interactions with the audience. Generally, this lecture is associated with a masterclass reserved for PhD students from LIP6 and/or other labs.

As the main driving force behind to the steering committee, LIP6 oversees the Colloquium’s organisation, with occasional support from ISIR.

Steering committee


Contact: Bertrand Granado

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