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31: 194:'s Hugo and Nebula Anthology 1993, one of the largest early commercial e-Book projects. It offered 5 full novels still in hardback release, along with a wide array of short fiction and multimedia. In later years, it has become the norm for the administrators of the 201:
This was an adjunct of the "Library of Tomorrow" project, which offered a full library of fiction on an "all you can read" subscription basis. The library failed, but presaged many similar attempts to sell online content by subscription.
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since 1997, including being chairman from 2000 to 2010. His involvement in online civil rights also includes being the subject of one of the first major internet bans and being a plaintiff before the
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Inc. Bittorrent's software was the largest driver of internet bandwidth use during the early 21st century. He is also the author of several well known internet essays on copyright and
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reported rec.humor.funny as the most widely read online publication starting in 1989, continuing in that position into the mid-1990s, with an estimated 440,000 readers.
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Chile (also Buenos Aires, Christchurch, Budapest, Seville, Johannesburg, Milan, Amsterdam, Berlin and Copenhagen) and Innotown Norway.
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project (now known as Waymo) where he consulted on strategy and technology. He has also served as a consulting advisor for
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Templeton's strongest efforts have been in the areas of free speech, computer security, privacy and intellectual property.
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the first spreadsheet and personal computing productivity tool. He also developed the IBM-PC version of the
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Communications, the first company founded to engage in commercial activity over the early Internet.
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companion before release of the PC. He was CEO and Founder of Looking Glass Software Ltd. in
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site and others. Templeton is inventor on 21 patents in self-driving cars and telephony.
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for IBM PC, Atari ST and QNX (Looking Glass Software / Software Channels, 1985)
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Templeton has been a keynote speaker at many conferences and events, including
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programming tools for Commodore (Professional Software, Pro-Line) 1981
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Protect Your Digital Privacy: Survival Skills for the Information Age
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structure editor and IDE for QNX (Looking Glass Software 1986)
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creating installations based on photography and telephony.
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programming tool for Lotus 1-2-2 (Frontline Systems, 1988)
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to produce an annual digital anthology of award nominees.
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Most notably, Templeton was founder and CEO in 1989 of
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Since 2004, Templeton has been a board member of the
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Templeton has been an active writer in the field of
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Index


Toronto
Ontario
Software architect
entrepreneur
Charles Templeton
Sylvia Murphy
Toronto
self-driving car
University of Waterloo
ClariNet
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Supreme Court of the United States
Reno v. ACLU
Usenet
Brian Reid
VisiCorp
Visicalc
VisiPlot
Ontario
ClariNet
Hugo Award
Foresight Institute
nanotechnology
Singularity University
Robocars
Robocars.com
Brad Ideas
Google self-driving car
Starship Technologies

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