Tuesday September 19, 2006 
The collected occasional commentary by Peter Korn, Accessibility Architect at Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Peter Korn's Weblog The collected occasional commentary by Peter Korn, Accessibility Architect at Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
Tuesday September 19, 2006 Congratulations Jim, MacArthur "genius"!Jim Fruchterman has been a force in the accessibility and assistive technology field for nearly two decades. He started Arkenstone in 1989, a nonprofit company producing reading machines for the disabled community. After having sold that to Freedom Scientific, he founded another nonprofit - Benetech - that continues to work on technologies for people with disabilities (such as their Bookshare.org on-line library for people with print impairments), but has expanded into Human Rights issues, and Landmine Detection among other work. Today Jim received today one of the MacArthur 'genius' awards - a "no strings attached" $500,000 "vote of confidence" in his work at Benetech. The San Francisco Chronicle has a nice article about it. Also, the MacArthur Foundation has a writeup of Jim's work Congratulations Jim! (2006-09-19 10:47:18.0) Permalink Comments [1] Post a Comment: Comments are closed for this entry. |
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Posted by studio 501c on September 19, 2006 at 11:08 PM PDT #