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Aaron Swartz

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Aaron Swartz

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Also known as Aaron H. Swartz, AaronSw, Aaron Hillel Swartz, Aaron Hillel George Swartz

American computer programmer and internet-political activist (1986-2013)

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Aaron Swartz (1986–2013) was a male author from the United States. His published works include *The Boy Who Could Change the World*, *A Programmable Web*, *Raw Thought*, *Raw Nerve*, and the *Guerilla Open Access Manifesto*. Open Library records four works by him, while Crossref lists five. He maintained an official website and blog.

Swartz was born on November 8, 1986, and died on January 11, 2013. He is referenced by 481 other encyclopedia articles. MusicBrainz identifies him as a person from the United States. Last.fm data indicates he had 25 listeners and 54 playcounts. He had 23,560 social media followers.

Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
11/8/1986
Died
1/11/2013
Works
4

Top works

  • The Boy Who Could Change the World
  • A Programmable Web
  • Raw Thought, Raw Nerve
  • Guerilla Open Access Manifesto

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1986-11-08
Active to
2013-01-11
Discogs

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
25
Total plays
54

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Aaron+Swartz">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. BEDTools: a flexible suite of utilities for comparing genomic features

    · 2010 · cited 27,547x

  2. The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data

    · 2010 · cited 26,052x

  3. MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

    · 2012 · cited 24,617x

  4. Integrated analysis of multimodal single-cell data

    · 2021 · cited 15,035x

  5. Generative adversarial networks

    · 2020 · cited 13,852x

via Crossref · CC0

Quotes

  • “I’m a teenage kid who’s interested in improving the world (mostly through law, politics, and technology). This year, I’m going to try to update my weblog daily with interesting thoughts, program some interesting new website software, and work on some website projects that help people better understand what’s going on in American politics.”
  • “On the one hand, I want to be very open about everything, On the other, I heavily defend people’s right to privacy. Of course, as you point out, keeping your privacy is hard because if you slip once, it’s out there forever. I’m not sure what to say to people who want to protect their privacy except, be careful when you give out private information and think about where it could end up.”
  • “Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

~40 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Aaron Hillel Swartz (November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013), also known as AaronSw, was an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, writer, political organizer, and Internet hacktivist. As a programmer, Swartz helped develop the web feed format RSS; the technical architecture for Creative Commons, an organization dedicated to creating copyright licenses; and the Python website framework web.py. Swartz helped define the syntax of the lightweight markup language format Markdown, and was a co-owner of the social news aggregation website Reddit and contributed to its development until he left the company in 2007. He is often credited as a martyr and a prodigy, and much of his work focused on civic awareness and progressive activism.

After Reddit was sold to Condé Nast Publications in 2006, Swartz became more involved in activism, helping launch the Progressive Change Campaign Committee in 2009. In 2010, he became a research fellow at Harvard University's Safra Research Lab on Institutional Corruption, directed by Lawrence Lessig. He founded the online group Demand Progress, known for its campaign against the Stop Online Piracy Act.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aaron Swartz” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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