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Aaron Swartz
me@aaronsw.com
349 Marshman
Highland Park, IL 60035
(847) 432-8857 (Google PhoneBook)

currently:
265 Elm St. #4
Somerville, MA 02144-2949
(warning: no doorbell)

Awards

Summer Founders Program
Funding and assistance to run a startup for the summer of 2005.
Technorati Developers Contest
Free iPod mini (2005)
Apple WWDC Student Scholarship
Free pass to the Worldwide Developers Conference and special exception made for age (2001)
ArsDigita Prize
$1000, Web Server (2000)
Scholarship For Excellence
Four year scholarship to North Shore Country Day School (2000)

Projects

Zpedia
Free, online radical encyclopedia

Work

Infogami, Founder
Summer 2005
Creative Commons, RDF Advisor
January 2002
RDF Core Working Group, Member
April 2001
DCMI Architecture Working Group, Member
January 2001
Semantic Web Agreement Group
January 2001
RSS-DEV Working Group, Member
August 2000

Press

I've been in the news several times, but the links broke: Boston Herald, USA Today, Eight-Forty-Eight (RealAudio)

Chicago Tribune: Highland Park teen is finalist in Web competition (23 June 2000)
AP: Teens spin Web of future (24 June 2000)
Mass High Tech: ArsDigita Foundation awards Net design prize to under-18 crowd [JPG] (10 July 2000)
Metafilter: Boy Genius (26 February 2001) ∞
Sunday Times: Teenager in a million (29 April 2001)
Ask Tim: Books for a Younger Audience (December 2001) ∞
San Jose Mercury News: Dan Gillmor: The technology behind Napster is far from dead (14 May 2002) ∞
BBC NewsHour: Warchalking: the new phone phreaking? (1.8MB Ogg, 3.2MB MP3) (19 September 2003)
NPR Weekend Edition: Wireless Tagging (1.7MB Ogg, 2.7MB MP3, streaming RealAudio) (21 September 2003)
Day to Day: Hacker Culture and Computer Viruses (21 August 2003)
Digital Citizen: Alternative Compensation Systems interview (15 December 2003) #
under the iron: [Interview with] Aaron Swartz (23 January 2004) ∞ #
San Jose Mercury News: What about the [Google] IPO? (21 April 2004) ∞ #
Wired News: Searching for The New York Times (14 July 2004) ∞ #
Wired News: We Don't Need No Stinkin' Login (20 July 2004) ∞ #
Wired Magazine: Undergraduate Overachiever (24 August 2004) #
CNET News.com: Site seeks to spur political ad swaps (19 October 2004) ∞ #
Newsweek: What Your College Kid is Really Up To (13 December 2004) ∞
Hi International: Faces: Aaron Swartz, Computer Prodigy (December 2004) ∞
Hack!: Tonårshacker med imponerande meritlista (22 June 2005) ∞/translation
Wired News: Stars Rise at Startup Summer Camp (13 September 2005) ∞ # (Korean edition)
Hartford Courant: Keeping It Really Simple: RSS News Feeds Via E-Mail: A Technology That Actually Delivers (15 September 2005) ∞ #
Salon.com: The Fix: Will Vinnifer usurp Brangelina? Paris -- canceled! Plus: Comparing O'Reilly with McCarthy. (13 October 2005) ∞
Techsploitation: Won't Somebody Think of the Pings? (15 November 2005) ∞
Boston Globe: The idealists, the optimists, and the world they share (13 February 2006) ∞
    additional story | front-page photo | additional photo ∞
Boston Globe: The Ladder Isn't The Only Way Up (accompanying photo) (19 February 2006) ∞
New York Observer: When Intellectuals Had a Real Magazine: Viva Lingua Franca! (24 April 2006) ∞
PBS MediaShift: Should Community-Edited News Sites Pay Top Editors? (25 July 2006)
Boston Phoenix: Anyone can edit (11 August 2006)
Future Tense: Who writes Wikipedia? (6 September 2006) ∞
SFGate: Isn't Your Kid a CEO?: These days, middle schoolers are launching startups. What's next? Second graders with IPOs? (6 September 2007)
amNewYork: G-Phone: Cracking the Google mystery (7 September 2007)
Boston Globe: Ever-younger entreprenuers: Internet, low costs lead to early-in-life startups (7 September 2007)

<sbp> wow, how have you been in the news that many times? it's obscene

Publications

Aaron Swartz, "MusicBrainz: A Semantic Web Service", IEEE Intelligent Systems, Jan/Feb 2002, pp. 76-77. (PDF, old HTML)

Swartz, A. and Hendler, J. "The Semantic Web: A Network of Content for the Digital City", Proceedings Second Annual Digital Cities Workshop, Kyoto, Japan, October, 2001. (HTML, based on The Semantic Web in Breadth)

A short correction letter to Extra! (February 2005):

At Stanford,
Not of Stanford

In your most recent issue (9-10/04), you quoted someone saying that Stanley Kurtz was a Stanford professor who had done research on the harms of gay marriage. Stanley Kurtz is not a professor at Stanford, but instead a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, a right-wing think tank located on the Stanford campus.

Aaron Swartz
Stanford, Calif.

Contributor

Lerone D. Wilson, Aarvark'd: 12 Weeks With Geeks (Boondoggle Films, 2005) [screenshot]

Tara Calishan & Rael Dornfest, Google Hacks (O'Reilly, 2ed, 2004)

Joel Spolsky (ed.), The Best Software Writing I (Apress, 2005) (working title: //comment)

Tech editor

Sarah Milstein and Rael Dornfest, Google: The Missing Manual (O'Reilly, 2004)

Mentioned

Ben Hammersley, Content Syndication with RSS (O'Reilly, 2003)

Hacks

sanitize
bringing sanitiy to world of messed-up data
atomstream
Get updates more quickly.
feedfinder
Find the Web feed for a Web page
arcget
Retrieve sites from the Internet Archive
Aaron's Do The Right Thing
CGI to aid in web searching
HTML Display (source)
CGI to display HTML snippets
HTML Diff (source)
creates an HTML page highlighting the differences between two other HTML pages
Aaron Text Converter (source)
converts structured ASCII into HTML
Stock Quotes in RDF (source)
converts Yahoo! Quote information into RDF
HTML2Text Converter (source)
converts HTML into plain ASCII text
TRAMP: Makes RDF more Pythonic
Makes an RDF document look like a bunch of nest Python dictionaries and lists.
New York Times as a Weblog (source)
Grabs the latest news from the New York Times website and displays it in chronological order.
rss2email aggregator
Grabs your favorite RSS feeds and breaks them up into story-sized email chunks which are delivered to your mailbox.
secroll
Securely roll an n-sided die between two parties.
xmltramp
Easily access XML documents in Python.

Websites

web.resource.org
Hosts important Internet specifications, including RSS 1.0 and Creative Commons
Google Weblog
Tracking updates and changes to the Google search engine (Started 17 March 2002)
Swhack
Technology news and chat (Started 25 July 2001)
check.theinfo.org
Standards validation service
Schoolyard Subversion
Web journal on reforming the educational system (Started 14 August 2000)
LogicError
Hypertextual database of interesting people, projects and programs
RSS Info
News and reference on the RSS format
Not A Bug
Personal projects website
Swartzfam.com
Family website

Places

Experience

Web: AOLserver, Apache, Zope, ACS, Python, PyWX, WebWare, Skunkweb
Databases: Oracle, PostgreSQL, BerkeleyDB
Languages: C, JavaScript, Tcl, Python, bash, Java
Operating Systems: MacOS Classic, Mac OS X, Red Hat GNU/Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, Windows, DOS, OS/2

Interests

Math, Crypto, Semantic Web, World Wide Web, Hypertext, Emergent (P2P) Networks, Agoric Networks, Syndication, Education, Freedoms, Free Software

Aaron Swartz (me@aaronsw.com)
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