Noteworthy members of the League for Programming Freedom: John McCarthy, Professor at Stanford. Inventor of Lisp. Marvin Minsky, Professor at MIT. One of the founders of artificial intelligence. Rod Brooks, Professor at MIT. Known for work on microrobots. Robert Boyer, Professor at University of Texas. Known for Boyer-Moore string search. Co-founder of Computational Logic, Inc. Patrick Winston, Director, MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab. Also associated with Ascent Technology. Gerry Sussman, Professor at MIT. Author of "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs". Harold Abelson, Professor at MIT. Author of "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs". Richard Stallman, President, Free Software Foundation. William A. Wulf, Professor at University of Virginia. Former assistant director of NSF. IEEE and AAAS Fellow. Stan Kugell, founder of Javelin Software. Javelin received Product of the Year awards from InfoWorld and European Business Software. (Currently President of Fairfield Software Corp.) Les Earnest, founder and first president of Imagen, and author of the first spelling checker. Richard P. Gabriel, founder and first president of Lucid. (Currently Chief Technical Officer.) Peter Deutsch, formerly Chief Scientist, Parc Place Systems (Currently with Sun.) Walter Bright, Co-owner of Symantech. Author of first ever native code C++ compiler. Guy Steele, Senior Scientist, Thinking Machines Corp. David Korn, AT&T Bell Labs Fellow. Author of the Korn Shell. Dave Anderson, Director of Applications R&D Borland International. Philip Zimmerman, Boulder Software Engineering. Author of PGP. David Pollak, owner of Athena Design.