15 Facts About Lee Felsenstein

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Lee Felsenstein was born on April 27,1945 and is an American computer engineer who played a central role in the development of the personal computer.

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Lee Felsenstein was one of the original members of the Homebrew Computer Club and the designer of the Osborne 1, the first mass-produced portable computer.

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Lee Felsenstein's work featured a concern for the social impact of technology and was influenced by the philosophy of Ivan Illich.

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Lee Felsenstein was the engineer for the Community Memory project, one of the earliest attempts to place networked computer terminals in public places to facilitate social interactions among individuals, in the era before the commercial Internet.

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Lee Felsenstein graduated from Central High School in Philadelphia as a member of class 219.

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Lee Felsenstein wrote for the Berkeley Barb, one of the leading underground newspapers.

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Lee Felsenstein had entered University of California, Berkeley first in 1963, joined the Co-operative Work-Study Program in Engineering in 1964 and dropped out at the end of 1967, working as a Junior Engineer at the Ampex Corporation from 1968 through 1971, when he re-enrolled at Berkeley.

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Lee Felsenstein's work featured a concern for the social impact of technology.

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Lee Felsenstein was influenced in his philosophy by the works of Ivan Illich, particularly Tools for Conviviality.

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Lee Felsenstein was one of the original members of the Homebrew Computer Club, which formed in 1975 in response to the appearance of the Altair 8800 computer kit.

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Lee Felsenstein was less a chair than a keeper of chaos.

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Lee Felsenstein was named a "Pioneer of the Electronic Frontier" in 1994 by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and in 2007, he was given the Editor's Choice Award for Creative Excellence by EE Times magazine.

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In 1998, Lee Felsenstein founded the Free Speech Movement Archives as an online repository of historical information relating to that event, its antecedents and successors.

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In 2003, Lee Felsenstein was named a Laureate of The Tech Museum of Innovation for this work.

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Lee Felsenstein is the Founding Sensei of the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, California, and was featured on a Fox News segment in late 2009 covering the non-profit facility.