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• Editor of the Cambridge Mathematical Journal

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• Gutenberg / History of Communication / History of Information Technologies / History of Misinformation

The British mathematician George Boole is best known for his work on Boolean logic which was named after him and is very important in computing and electronics. November 2nd 2015 is Boole's 200th birthday if such a thing makes any sense. We like to celebrate famous people from tech history so it's a good enough excuse for us!

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• Gutenberg 's Business Partner

Johannes Gutenberg (born Johannes Gensfleisch zum Gutenberg; circa 1400-February 3, 1468) was a German blacksmith and inventor who developed the world's first mechanical moveable type printing press. Regarded as a milestone in modern human history, the printing press played a key role in the advancement of the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, and the Age of Enlightenment. Making the knowledge contained in books and literature affordable and readily available for the first time, Gutenberg's press was used to create one of the Western world's first and most famous books, the Gutenberg Bible, also known as the "42-Line Bible." Johannes Gutenberg was born between 1394 and 1404 in the German city of Mainz. An "official birthday" of June 24, 1400, was chosen at the time of the 500th Anniversary Gutenberg Festival held in Mainz in 1900, but the date is purely symbolic. Johannes was the second of three children of patrician merchant Friele Gensfleisch zur Laden and his second wife, Else Wyrich, the daughter of a shopkeeper, whose family had once been members of the German noble classes. According to some historians, Friele Gensfleisch was a member of the aristocracy and worked as a goldsmith for the bishop at Mainz in the Catholic ecclesiastical mint. Like his exact date of birth, few details of Gutenberg's early life and education are known with any degree of certainty. It was common at the time for a person's surname to be taken from the house or property where they lived rather than their father. As a result, a person's legal surname as reflected in court documents could actually change over time as they moved about. It is known that as a young child and adult, Johannes lived in the Gutenberg house in Mainz. In 1411, an uprising by craftsmen against aristocrats in Mainz forced more than a hundred families like Guttenberg's to leave. It is believed that Gutenberg moved with his family to Eltville am Rhein (Altavilla), Germany, where they lived on an estate inherited by his mother. According to historian Heinrich Wallau, Gutenberg may have studied goldsmithing at the University of Erfurt, where records show the enrolment of a student named Johannes de Altavilla in 1418-Altavilla being the Latin form of Eltville am Rhein, Gutenberg's home at the time. It is also known that young Gutenberg had worked with his father in the ecclesiastical mint, perhaps as a goldsmith's apprentice. Wherever he received his formal education, Gutenberg learned to read and write in both German and Latin, the language of scholars and churchmen. For the next 15 years, Gutenberg's life remained a mystery, until a letter written by him in March 1434 indicated that he was living with his mother's relatives in Strasbourg, Germany, perhaps working as a goldsmith for the town's militia. While Gutenberg was never known to have married or fathered children, court records from 1436 and 1437 indicate that he may have broken a promise to marry a Strasbourg woman named Ennelin. No more is known of the relationship.

Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Prior to rejoining the Harvard faculty, Lessig was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school's Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. Lessig serves on the Board of the AXA Research Fund, and on the advisory boards of Creative Commons and the Sunlight Foundation. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Association, and has received numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation's Freedom Award, Fastcase 50 Award and being named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries. Lessig holds a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale.