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<TITLE>Linus Award Issue 14</TITLE>
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"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more lovable!</I>"
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<H2>Linus Torvalds to Receive Annual UniForum Award</H2>
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<H4>By Richard Shippee,
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<a href="mailto:"dick@uniforum.org>dick@uniforum.org</a></H4>
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Fri, 31 Jan 1997 <BR>
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Linus Torvalds, considered the "Father of the LINUX Operating System",
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has been selected by the UniForum Board of Directors to receive The UniForum
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Award. The Award will be presented to Torvalds on Thursday, March 13th, as
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part of the morning Keynote Session at UniForum '97, being held at the Moscone
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Convention Center in San Francisco.
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The UniForum Award, presented annually since 1983, goes to individuals or
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groups whose work has significantly advanced the cause of open systems over
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time, or has had an immediate and positive impact on the industry with long
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term ramifications. The UniForum Board of Directors considered a number of
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nominees for this year's awards, and voted unanimously in their selection of
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Linus Torvalds for his breakthrough work on the LINUX kernel and for his
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pioneering efforts in making his work available at little or no cost to anyone
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wishing to develop on it.
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Linus Torvalds is the creator and chief architect of the Linux operating
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system. At the University of Helsinki in the spring of 1991, frustrated
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with the price of
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Unix operating systems, Torvalds began writing some software code to handle
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certain computing chores on the 386.
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"I noticed that this was starting to be an operating system," he
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says.
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Since then, he has traveled all over the world promoting Linux.
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Although developing Linux has been almost a full-time job for him,
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he recently accepted a job at Transmeta in Santa Clara, California.
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He and Tovi Monni recently celebrated the birth of their baby daughter,
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Patricia Miranda Torvalds.
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The UniForum Board also selected a second Award winner this year: James
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Gosling of JavaSoft, and his development team, for their work on Java. Gosling
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will receive his Award at the Wednesday, March 12th Keynote session at
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UniForum '97.
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The Award presentation to Linus Torvalds, at the Thursday Keynote session, is
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open to all free of charge but requires attendees to register for UniForum
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'97. Registrants may also visit the exhibits floor which features booths from
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a number of LINUX vendors including Comtrol, LINUX International; SSC,
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publishers of Linux Journal; Red Hat Software and Work Group Solutions. To
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view the entire UniForum '97 Conference and Trade Show brochure, and to
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register on-line, please go to <A HREF="http://www.uniforum97.com/">
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http://www.uniforum97.com/</A>.
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For additional information contact:<BR>
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Richard Shippee, Director of Communications, UniForum
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408-986-8840, ext 17, <A HREF="mailto:dick@uniforum.org">dick@uniforum.org</A>
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<center><H5>Copyright © 1997, Richard Shippee <BR>
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Published in Issue 14 of the Linux Gazette</H5></center>
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