Brewster Kahle

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Brewster Kahle is an American computer engineer, internet entrepreneur, and digital librarian best known as the founder of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving and providing universal access to knowledge.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf computer engineer
digital librarian
human
internet entrepreneur
philanthropist
advocatesFor digital preservation
open access to information
universal access to all knowledge
basedIn San Francisco Bay Area
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
educatedAt Massachusetts Institute of Technology
employer Internet Archive
familyName Kahle
fieldOfWork computer science
digital libraries
internet technology
web archiving
founded Internet Archive
gender male
givenName Brewster
hasAffiliation Internet Archive
Open Library project
digital preservation community
hasAward National Humanities Medal
hasFounded Alexa Internet
hasRole internet pioneer
leader in digital archiving
hasWebsite https://brewster.kahle.org/
knownFor advocacy for universal access to knowledge
co-founding Alexa Internet
digital preservation initiatives
founding the Internet Archive
languageSpoken English
movement free culture movement
open access movement
name Brewster Kahle
notableIdea building a digital library of all published works
long-term preservation of the web
notableProject Open Library
notableWork Wayback Machine
occupation businessperson
computer engineer
digital librarian
internet entrepreneur
positionHeld digital librarian at the Internet Archive
founder of the Internet Archive
worksAt Internet Archive


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