In 1999, at age 12, he created the website The Info Network, a user-generated encyclopedia.
He attended North Shore Country Day School, a small private school near Chicago, until 9th grade, when he left high school and enrolled in courses at Lake Forest College. At an early age, Swartz immersed himself in the study of computers, programming, the Internet, and Internet culture.
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His father founded the software firm Mark Williams Company. He was the eldest child of Susan and Robert Swartz and brother to Noah and Ben Swartz. San Francisco, April 2007 (9:29)Īaron Swartz was born in Highland Park, 25 miles North of Chicago, the child of a Jewish family. Swartz describes the nature of the shift from centralized one-to-many systems to the decentralized many-to-many topology of network communication.
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In 2011, Swartz was arrested by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police on state breaking-and-entering charges, after connecting a computer to the MIT network in an unmarked and unlocked closet, and setting it to download academic journal articles systematically from JSTOR using a guest user account issued to him by MIT.
He founded the online group Demand Progress, known for its campaign against the Stop Online Piracy Act. In 2010, he became a research fellow at Harvard University's Safra Research Lab on Institutional Corruption, directed by Lawrence Lessig. He helped launch the Progressive Change Campaign Committee in 2009 to learn more about effective online activism. Swartz's work also focused on civic awareness and activism. (a merger of Swartz's project Infogami and Redbrick Solutions, a company run by Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman). He was given the title of co-founder of Reddit by Y Combinator owner Paul Graham after the formation of Not a Bug, Inc. He was involved in the development of the web feed format RSS, the Markdown publishing format, the organization Creative Commons, the website framework web.py, and joined the social news site Reddit six months after its founding.
Internet Hall of Fame 2013 (posthumously)Īaron Hillel Swartz (November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013) was an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, writer, political organizer, and Internet hacktivist. Safra Center for EthicsĪmerican Library Association's James Madison Award (posthumously) Software developer, writer, internet activistĬreative Commons (development), Reddit (co-founder),, Open Library, DeadDrop, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Demand Progress (co-founder), ThoughtWorks, Tor2webįellow, Harvard University Edmond J.