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In August 1908, a white mob attacked Springfield, Illinois’s Black community, destroying homes and businesses and lynching two Black men. National outrage over the violence helped spur the movement that created the NAACP the following year.
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This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
Andrew Keith Paul Morton | |
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 Andrew Morton speaking at Interop, Moscow, 2008 | |
| Born | July 15, 1959 |
| Other name | akpm |
| Education | Electrical engineering |
| Occupation | Programmer |
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| Known for | -mm tree |
| Spouse | Kathryn Morton |
| Children | Victoria Morton, Michael Morton, Matthew Morton |
| Parent | Prof. David Morton (deceased) |
Andrew Keith Paul Morton (born 1959) is an Australian software engineer. He is one of the lead developers of the Linux kernel, and a co-maintainer of the Ext3 file system, the journaling layer for block devices (JBD) and memory management.
In the late 1980s, he was one of the partners of a company in Sydney, Australia that produced a kit computer called the Applix 1616, as well as a hardware engineer for the now-defunct Australian gaming equipment manufacturer Keno Computer Systems. He holds an honours degree in electrical engineering from the University of New South Wales in Australia.
Morton maintains a Linux kernel patchset known as the mm tree, which contains work-in-progress patches that might later be accepted into the official Linux tree maintained by Linus Torvalds. "mm" as a primary testing ground became unmanageably large and busy, and in 2008 the "linux-next" tree was created to fill much of this role.
In 2001, Morton and his family moved from Wollongong, New South Wales to Palo Alto, California.[citation needed] In July 2003, he joined the Open Source Development Labs under an agreement with his then-employer Digeo Inc. (makers of the Moxi home entertainment media center), in which OSDL supported Morton's Linux kernel development work while he continued in his official role as principal engineer at Digeo.[1]
Since August 2006, Morton has been employed by Google and continues his current work in maintaining the kernel.[2][3]
Morton delivered the keynote speech at the 2004 Ottawa Linux Symposium. He was also a featured speaker at MontaVista Software's Vision 2007 Conference.[4] He was an expert witness in the SCO v. IBM lawsuit contesting UNIX copyrights.[5]
Morton is also known by his username akpm, as found in e-mail addresses and as part of the URL to his now-defunct webpage. On being asked what the initials KP stood for, he replied, "Some say 'Kernel Programmer.' My parents said 'Keith Paul.'"[6]
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Andrew Keith Paul Morton (born 1959) is an Australian software engineer. He is one of the lead developers of the Linux kernel, and a co-maintainer of the Ext3 file system, the journaling layer for block devices (JBD) and memory management.
Andrew Morton may refer to: Andrew Morton (computer programmer) (born 1959), Linux kernel programmer/coordinator Andrew Morton (painter) (1802–1845), English portrait artist Andrew Morton (writer) (born 1953), biographer of Diana, Princess of Wales, Angelina Jolie, Madonna, amongst others Andy Morton (1882–1950), Australian rugby league footballer for North Sydney Bears Andrew Morton (1812–1881), pioneering doctor and coroner of Weetangera, Australian Capital Territory
AKPM or akpm may refer to: Alaska Public Media, an American television and radio public broadcaster Andrew Morton (computer programmer), an Australian software engineer who goes by the user name akpm
The Applix 1616 was a kit computer with a Motorola 68000 CPU, produced by a small company called Applix in Sydney, Australia, from 1986 to the early 1990s. It ran a custom multitasking multiuser operating system that was resident in ROM. A version of Minix was also ported to the 1616, as was the MGR Window System. Andrew Morton, designer of the 1616 and one of the founders of Applix, later became the maintainer of the 2.6 version of the Linux kernel.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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