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Interview: Brewster Kahle

THE DIGITAL AGE I magine—all the world’s information at your service with just a few clicks of the mouse. It’s a dream that Brewster Kahle has held onto for the past 20 years and is now seeing through to reality in his role at the Internet Archive, where he serves as chairman of the board. The Internet Archive was founded in 1996 to build an “Internet library” that will offer permanent access for researchers and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Kahle is the force behind that effort. Prior to his work with the Internet Archive, Kahle pioneered the Internet’s first publishing system, known as WAIS (Wide Area Information Server), which was sold to AOL in 1995. He then cofounded Alexa Internet, which was sold to Amazon.com in 1999. Kahle earned a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982. He studied artificial intelligence with Marvin Minsky and W. Daniel Hillis. In 1983, he helped start Thinking Machines, a parallel supercomputer maker, serving as a lead engineer for six years. Discussing the potential of the Internet Archive with Kahle is Stuart Feldman, vice president of Internet technology for IBM. Before that, he was director of the IBM Institute for Advanced Commerce and head of computer science research. Prior to coming to IBM in 1995, Feldman spent 11 years at Bellcore, where he held several research management positions. He spent 10 years before that as a computer science researcher at Bell Labs. Feldman was a member of the original Unix research team and is best known as the creator of the Make configuration management system, as well as the author of the first Fortran-77 compiler. Feldman received an A.B. in astrophysical sciences from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.