Aaron Swartz, late hacker and Internet activist, has been inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame.  The announcement of the 32 inductees for 2013 was made last week in both Washington, D.C. and Geneva, Switzerland.  When the ceremony is live streamed on August 3 in Berlin, Germany, Aaron Swartz will posthumously receive an honor also held […]

Aaron Swartz, famed hacker and Internet activist, passed on at the age of 26 on Friday, January 11.  Hacker News has at least fifty discussion threads related to Aaron’s passing.  Aaron worked on Reddit in YC’s original batch in summer 2005.  He also co-authored the RSS 1.0 specification, created the original web.py framework for Python, and co-founded the online group Demand Progress.

Robert T. Morris is a professor at M.I.T. and founding partner of Y Combinator.  Prior to those, he co-founded Viaweb and created the RTML markup language used by Yahoo! Store.  Robert T. Morris was also the first person held accountable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986.  In 1988, at the age of 23, […]