By Brewster Kahle, founder and digital librarian of the Internet Archive
Tuesday, October 13
10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Level 0 lecture hall between
Al-Jazri and Al-Kindi (bldgs. 4 and 5)
(Reception to follow)
A passionate advocate for public Internet access and a successful entrepreneur, Brewster Kahle has spent his career intent on a singular focus: providing “universal access to all knowledge”.
He is the founder and digital librarian of the Internet Archive, one of the largest digital libraries in the world. Shortly after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he studied artificial intelligence, Kahle helped found the company Thinking Machines, a parallel supercomputer maker.
In 1989, Kahle created the Internet’s first publishing system called Wide Area Information Server (WAIS), later selling the company to AOL. In 1996, Kahle co-founded Alexa Internet, which helps catalog the Web, selling it to Amazon.com in 1999. The Internet Archive, which he founded in 1996, now preserves 20 petabytes of data—the books, Web pages, music, television and software of our cultural heritage, working with more than 400 library and university partners to create a digital library, accessible to all.
Please join us to hear how Kahle and the Internet Archive pursue the quest for “universal access to all knowledge”. For more information on this event and other KAUST Open Access Week events, please click here.