Michael S. Hart
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American author, founder of Project Gutenberg (1947–2011)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1947
- Died
- 2011
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Brief History of the Internet
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2
· 2014 · cited 88,486x
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 48,826x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 44,823x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,565x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,536x
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Key facts
- Born
- Michael Stern Hart , ( 1947-03-08 ) March 8, 1947, Tacoma, Washington , U.S.
- Died
- September 6, 2011 (2011-09-06) (aged 64), Urbana, Illinois , U.S.
- Alma mater
- University of Illinois
- Occupation
- Author
- Known for
- Project Gutenberg
- Website
- hart .pglaf .org
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Michael
- Family name
- Hart
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Tacoma
- Place of death
- Urbana
- Occupation
- inventor
- Educated at
- University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
- Official website
- pglaf.org/hart
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- Commons category
- Michael S. Hart
- date of birth
- 1947-03-08
- date of death
- 2011-09-06
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
Michael Stern Hart (March 8, 1947 – September 6, 2011) was an American author credited with the invention of the e-book, and who founded Project Gutenberg (PG), the first project to make e-books freely available via the Internet. He published e-books via ARPANET years before the Internet existed, and later on BBS networks and Gopher servers.
Hart devoted his life after founding PG in 1971 to digitizing and distributing literature from works in the public domain with free and expired copyrights. The first e-books were typed in plain text format and published as text files; other formats were made available later. Hart typed most of the early e-books himself; later, volunteers expanded the project.
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