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	[ for those of you who haven't heard the news elsewhere -len 
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Date: Tue, 17 Jul 90 11:41:07 edt
From: hal@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Hal Abelson)

	[ slightly edited -len
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Richard Stallman has been named a MacArthur Fellow.  Many of you have
already seen the announcement of this award in the Boston Globe.
[Page 1 on Saturday, 14 July 1990 -len]

The MacArthur Fellows program, sponsored by the John D. and Catherine
T. MacArthur Foundation, awards unsolicited grants to exceptionally
talented persons from a wide range of disciplines.  Selection criteria
of Fellows is based on three criteria: the individual's potential for
future work, the sense that the award will be enabling to the
individual, and the expectation that the work will be significant and
important to society.

Since its inception in 1981, the program has named about 300 Fellows
worldwide.  Richard is the 10th member of the MIT community to be so
honored.  Previous MIT MacArthur Fellows are: John Harbison (Music
Department, 1989), Eric Lander (Whitehead Institute, 1987), Heather
Lechtman (Archaeology, 1984), Richard Mulligan (Whitehead Institute,
1981), David Page (Whitehead Institute, 1986), Michael Piore
(Economics, 1984), Charles Sabel (Social Science, 1982), Alar Toomre
(Mathematics, 1984), and Mark Wrighton (Chemistry, 1983)

Please join us on Friday to offer Richard our congratulations.
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Date: 17 Jul 1990 10:51:30 EST
From: Joe.Dempster@DOC.DSS.COM
To: tops-20@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil
Subject: PDP-10 hacker in the news again...

The Tuesday, July 17, 1990 issue of The New York Times, page A18
reports the awarding of 36 grants to "distinguished and gifted" by the
MacArthur Foundation of Chicago.  The grants range in size from
$150,000. to $375,000. and are distributed over 5 years.

Text from the 3rd column reports:

Richard Stallman, 37 (this is as it was reported, ed.), a computer
   programmer.  He is the founder of the Free Software Foundation,
   which advocates making software available to everyone.
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Date: 16 Jul 90 20:30:21 GMT
From: fkittred@bbn.com  (Fletcher Kittredge)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
Subject: Re: Congratulations !!!  rms
To: info-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu

In article <1990Jul16.141807.8429@forwiss.uni-passau.de> knight@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Alan Knight) writes:
>In article <1990Jul15.084437.16569@athena.mit.edu> adtaiwo@athena.mit.edu (Ademola Taiwo) writes:
>>In article <3350@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> bb@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Brent Byer) writes:
>>>
>>>		!!!  Congratulations to  Richard Stallman  !!!
>>>
>>>	rms will be a recipient of a MacArthur award.
>Congratulations, but on behalf of all of the ignorant people in the
>world I would like to ask what exactly this award is.
>
>   Alan Knight
>   knight@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de

A MacArthur grant is given to recognize creative excellence; it is for
roughly .5 million Deutsche Marks, and there are no strings attached.
The receipient can do whatever they please with the money, they are
not required to produce anything.

regards,
fletcher

Fletcher E. Kittredge  fkittred@bbn.com
Lead Programmer
Platforms and Tools Group
BBN Software Products Company
10 Fawcett St.
Cambridge, MA. 02138
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Date: 16 Jul 90 22:02:24 GMT
From: sunybcs!acsu.buffalo.edu@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu  (Paul Graham)
Subject: Re: Congratulations !!! rms
To: info-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu

knight@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Alan Knight) writes:

|Congratulations, but on behalf of all of the ignorant people in the
|world I would like to ask what exactly this award is.

"The John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced Monday
the names of 36 new fellows who will receive more than $10 million in
stipends, ranging from $150,000 to $375,000 over five years."

the grants are awarded without content restrictions to individuals
involved in creative pursuits.  the list includes some artists/dancers
but is primarily composed of academics.  receipients are nominated by
anonymous monitors who serve 1 year terms.  as well as the grant rms
will get health insurance.  he is listed as an independent programmer
and founder of the fsf.  other receipients include susan sonntag and
paul erhlich.

npr listeners are familiar with the philanthropy of the john d. and
catherine t.  foundation.

quoted material above is from the press release carried by upi.

i realize this doesn't belong in these groups but hey, rms has been
elected to some good company.  followups to g.m.d.
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enjoy -len