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abelson in 2007 dennis sullivan 1973 topologically distinct conjugate-varieties with finite fundamental-group 200px computer amorphous computing science , ethics , law , methodology , massachusetts institute of technology 26 april 1947 creative , structure and interpretation of computer programs commons , public knowledge , free software foundation elizabeth margaret fleck , radhika nagpal , mitchel resnick , luis bradley rodriguez , jr. , guillermo rozas , latanya sweeney , , kurt vanlehn , ron weiss , kenneth yip , feng daniel zhao coore , michael eisenberg , bose -rrb- taylor l. booth education award -lrb- ieee-cs , 1995 award -rrb- sigcse 2012 outstanding contribution to computer science education -lrb- -lrb- acm , 2012 -rrb- mit school of engineering , 1992 halabelsonji1.jpg hal abelson
 hal abelson princeton university mit
hal abelson

harold `` hal '' abelson -lrb- born april 26 , 1947 -rrb- is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at mit , a fellow of the ieee , and a founding director of both creative commons and the free software foundation .
