Brewster Kahle

Actor

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Brewster Kahle is an American digital librarian, computer engineer, internet entrepreneur, and advocate for universal access to all knowledge. He is the founder of the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library with the stated mission of 'universal access to all knowledge.' Kahle has also founded several for-profit companies, including Thinking Machines Corporation, Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS), and Alexa Internet. He is a strong advocate for open access and digital preservation. He studied computer science at MIT, where he worked on artificial intelligence. His work focuses on providing free access to archived information for researchers, historians, and the general public.

Films on Sooner

  • All Creatures Welcome

    2018

    87 mins

    Documentary, Independent

    All Creatures Welcome explores the world of hackers and nerds and sketches a utopian image of society in the digital era.