Authorized Personal Name:
Cross Reference Format:
Personal Name
Cross Reference Use For:
| Swartz, Aaron H., 1986-2013 |
| Schwartz, Aaron, 1986-2013 |
Cross Reference Field of Activity:
Freedom of informationRSS feeds
Internet and activism
Open access publishing
Cross Reference Occupation:
Computer programmers
Cross Reference Associated Group:
Electronic Frontier FoundationInternet Archive (Firm)
Creative Commons (Organization)
Students for Free Culture
Cross Reference Gender:
male
Cross Reference Biographical or Historical Information:
| At 14, Mr. Swartz helped create RSS, the nearly ubiquitous tool that allows users to subscribe to online information. He later became an Internet folk hero, pushing to make many Web files free and open to the public. Swartz crusaded for open access to data. His projects include a range of influential efforts like the Internet Archive, Creative Commons, Wikipedia and the Recap collection of legal documents. |
