Why Aaron Swartz's Ideas Matter

Why Aaron Swartz's Ideas Matter
Will Knight, MIT technology Review, January 14, 2013.
I don't want to write a long post about Aaron Swartz, because that's been done already by a bunch of people who actually knew him, but his career and mine intersected one or twice and I always recognized him as a brilliant and generous contributor to our field. His suicide is a tragedy and a loss and touches close to home to many of us. More...