Brewster Kahle

Brewster Kahle [ keɪl ] ( born October 22, 1960 in New York) is an American computer scientist. He became known as one of the architects of the Thinking Machines - parallel computer, and as a programmer innovative Internet applications. He is also the driving force and main financier and founder of the Internet Archive in 1996, which has set itself the goal of creating an all -access library of all ever available on the Internet gewesenen content ( Wayback Machine).

Life

Brewster Kahle studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Marvin Minsky and W. Daniel Hillis, with major field of study Artificial Intelligence. After graduating in 1982 he worked for six years as a senior developer at Thinking Machines, where the first massively parallel supercomputer was built.

He developed one of the early applications and search engine indexing software, consisting of hundreds of newspaper and magazine archives, available electronically made ​​the whole of the Dow Jones News Service.

Later, he developed the first Internet publication system, WAIS, which was bought in 1995 by AOL. He then founded the Internet service Alexa, who was sold to Amazon in 1999.

In 1996, he began to realize a long-cherished dream and founded the Internet Archive project.

In March 2004, he complained to the lifting of the current regime, expire after the copyrights after a certain time, if no extension is requested. A perpetual copyright ( Berne Convention Implementation Act as the de facto and the Copyright Term Extension Act provided ) contradicts his legal opinion that " abandoned " works are to be regarded as public domain by the authors for a long time.

Started in 2007 with Kahle Open Library project a "world library".