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Leonard H. Tower Jr. | |
|---|---|
 Len Tower wearing League for Programming Freedom and "No Smoking" badges (c. 1996) | |
| Born | June 17, 1949 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | MIT, Brentwood HS |
| Known for | GNU diff, gcc |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Software designer, biologist |
| Institutions | MIT, Free Software Foundation |
Leonard "Len" H. Tower Jr. (born June 17, 1949) is a computer programmer, most notable for being an original co-author of gcc and GNU diff. He is one of the founding board members of the Free Software Foundation.[1]
Academic career
[edit]In 1971, Tower received a B.S. in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2] During that time he was Business Manager at The Tech, the student newspaper.[3]
GNU project
[edit]As a member of the GNU project, Tower was a programmer who also did some administrative tasks;[4] he managed mailing lists, newsgroups, and requests for information.[5][6] For the GNU C compiler (now known as GNU Compiler Collection), he wrote register transfer language generator and definitions, and the VAX machine description.[7] Tower was also one of the five creators of GNU diff, a file comparison utility.[8] During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Tower spoke at USENIX conferences as the official representative of the FSF.[9]
League for Programming Freedom
[edit]Tower was an early member of the League for Programming Freedom. Through 1991, Tower was one of the organization's two most active speakers, along with Richard Stallman.[10]
See also
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Free software portalReferences
[edit]- ^ The first GNU's Bulletin ("GNU'S Bulletin, Volume 1, No.1". Free Software Foundation. 1986. Retrieved 2007-08-11.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help)), indicates this list of people as round[ing] out FSF's board of directors. - ^ "Award for free software kicks off 'One world, one net' conference". 28 October 1998. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ The Tech MIT student newspaper masthead, 15 February 1972, page 4.
- ^ Rubin, Paul (June 1987). "GNU's Who". GNU's Bulletin. 1 (1). Free Software Foundation. Retrieved 2006-09-24.
- ^ Tuttle, J. (February 1988). "GNU's Who". GNU's Bulletin. 1 (4). Free Software Foundation. Retrieved 2006-09-24.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ Goldstein, S. (January 1997). "GNU's Who". GNU's Bulletin. 1 (22). Free Software Foundation. Retrieved 2006-09-24.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ Stallman, Richard M. (2001) "Contributors to GCC," in Using and Porting the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for gcc version 2.95 (Cambridge, Mass.: Free Software Foundation)
- ^ Tower, Leonard H., et al. (2001) "AUTHORS" file, revision 1.3, GNU diff and patch utilities (Cambridge, Mass.: Free Software Foundation)
- ^ Smallwood, Kevin C. (30 December 1991) "Updated BOF Schedule for San Francisco USENIX Conference," comp.org.usenix USENET posting;
- ^ MacPhee, Spike R. (November 1991). "Speaking Volunteers". Programming Freedom. 1 (1). League for Programming Freedom. Archived from the original on 2007-03-10. Retrieved 2006-09-24.
External links
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