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Defunct philanthropy portal, founded 2001 as a project of Visions of a Better World Foundation, absorbed 2005 into Uplift Academy.

Founding Date:
2001

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
David Brin
Novelist
6-Oct-1950   The Uplift War
Doug Engelbart
Computer Programmer
30-Jan-1925 2-Jul-2013 Pioneer of human-computer interaction
Murray Gell-Mann
Physicist
15-Sep-1929   Quarks and strangeness
Richard Stallman
Computer Programmer
16-Mar-1953   Founder, GNU software project


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