Abelson became codirector of the MIT Center for Mobile Learning to continue development of App Inventor
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Hal Abelson
Harold Abelson is an American mathematician and computer scientist. He is a professor of computer science and engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a founding director of both Creative Commons and the Free Software Foundation, creator of the MIT App Inventor platform, and co-author of the widely used textboo…
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science · American mathematician (born 1947) · mathematician · computer scientist · artificial intelligence researcher · electrical engineer · also Hal Abelson, Harold Abelson, Abelson
Born 29 April 1947 · Q770584
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1992· 1 entry
In recognition of his significant and sustained contributions to teaching and undergraduate education
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1987· 8 entries
“It is not that there is some magic technology. It is what are you going to do with it?”
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“Giving it away helps defuse complex intellectual property issues of ownership and control that can distract the universities from their missions to disseminate knowledge." - commmenting on MIT's Open Courseware program”
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“In the Middle Ages people built cathedrals, where the whole town would get together and make a thing that's greater than any individual person could do and the society would kind of revel in that. We don't do that as much anymore, but in a sense this is kind of like building a cathedral.”
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“Anything which uses science as part of its name isn't: political science, creation science, computer science.”
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“What’s important is not just to develop the technology; it’s to develop the processes.”
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“Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.”
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“If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.”
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“Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement”
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1981· 1 entry
Presented a computational approach to geometry which has been cited as "the first step in a revolutionary change in the entire teaching/learning process
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1973· 2 entries
After completing his research on Topologically distinct conjugate varieties with finite fundamental group supervised by Dennis Sullivan
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Studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, doctorate (1973).
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1969· 1 entry
After completing a senior thesis on Actions with fixed-point set: a homology sphere, supervised by William Browder
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1947· 1 entry
Born 1947-04-29.
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