Event

Richard Stallman "Freeing Science - From Software to Medicine" Lecture

Friday, May 12, 2017 13:00to17:30
New Residence Hall Ballroom, 3625 avenue du Parc, Montreal, QC, H2X 3P8, CA


Freeing Science - From Software to Medicine


With special guest speaker

Dr. Richard Stallman
Father of the Free Software Movement
Founder and President of the Free Software Foundation
Developer of the GNU Operating System Founder of the League for Programming Freedom
Recipient of the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, the ACM Software System Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award, the Takeda Techno Entrepreneurship Award for Social/Economic Well-Being
Internet Hall of Fame Inductee



Featuring talks by
Dr. Aled Edwards, Director and CEO, Structural Genomics Consortium
and Dr. Guy Rouleau, Director, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital

Friday, May 12, 2017, 1:00 – 5:30 p.m.
New Residence Hall
3625 Parc Avenue

Dr. 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 a 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. 

To register, click here.

For more info, contact rsvpevents [dot] medicine [at] mcgill [dot] ca.

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