Samuel Jacob Klein
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 Samuel Klein in 2010 | |
| Born |
Samuel Jacob Klein January 25, 1978 Houston, United States |
| Residence | Cambridge, United States |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
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| Employer | One Laptop per Child |
| Known for | Trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation |
| Title | Director of Outreach |
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| blogs.law.harvard.edu/sj | |
Samuel Jacob Klein is an American physicist, programmer, speaker, technologist and knowledge curator. He is a Director of Outreach of the One Laptop per Child Foundation.[1] A contributor to Wikipedia since 2004, he was elected as a Trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation in 2009.[2] He is an affiliate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.[3]
On June 2013, Klein was re-elected to Wikimedia's Board of Trustees, a position which he has held since August 2009 and continues to serve in.[4]
Early life
Klein grew up in Houston, Texas, where he attended Bellaire High School. He is Jewish, and has said that he knows Hebrew as well as four additional languages at various levels.[5]
Klein later studied physics at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[6] Throughout his life, he lived in Kenya and Germany.[5]
Career
In the 2000s, Klein worked as a programmer and teacher, developing translation software at Idiom Technologies, a startup later acquired by SDL PLC. He also pursued education projects, and helped to plan ArsDigita University, a one-year school teaching computer science that was one of the first to publish its materials online under a free license.
In 2006, he joined One Laptop per Child as its Director of Content, curating the content that was sent around the world on the laptops, most of it developed by participating communities.[7]
Within Wikimedia, he developed translation networks and worked on the first Wikimania conferences, hosting the second conference in Boston.[8] He produced an early community newsletter, and edited the book How Wikipedia Works.[9]
He is also a puzzle hunter, and founded team Codex, which ran the 32nd MIT Mystery Hunt in 2012. He is currently co-chair of the technical stream of the Digital Public Library of America,[10] and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
As a fellow of Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University he researches "patterns of knowledge, leagues of extraordinary curators and annotators, and the rise of decentralized creation and education".[11]
References
- ↑ One Laptop per Child. "Samuel Klein Director of Outreach". Retrieved January 14, 2013.
- ↑ Wikimedia. "List of Wikimedia trustees". Retrieved January 14, 2013.
- ↑ Harvard University. "Berkman Center affiliates page". Retrieved January 14, 2013.
- ↑ "Wikimedia Foundation elections 2013/Results". 24 June 2013. Retrieved August 9, 2013.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Samuel Klein. "Candidate presentations". Retrieved August 9, 2013.
- ↑ Harvard University (March 26, 2008). "S J Klein, Director of Content for OLPC.". Retrieved January 14, 2013.
- ↑ OLPC News (July 22, 2006). "Samuel Klein joins OLPC.". Retrieved January 14, 2013.
- ↑ Wikimania 2006. "Main Page". Retrieved January 14, 2013.
- ↑ "WIkimedia User:Sj". Meta.wikimedia.org. 2013-07-07. Retrieved 2013-11-02.
- ↑ Digital Public Library of America. "Technical Aspects Co-Chairs Samuel Klein". Retrieved January 14, 2013.
- ↑ "Berkman Center Announces 2013-2014 Community". Berkman Center for Internet & Society. 8 July 2013. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
External links
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Media related to Samuel Klein at Wikimedia Commons - Website
- Samuel Jacob Klein on Twitter
- DIL San Francisco Gala 2010 a Rhythmic Success.
- «No me creen cuando hablo del Plan Ceibal» Entrevista Samuel Jacob Klein. (Spanish)
- Qué hicimos en el evento ceibalJAM4! (7 de septiembre de 2009) (Spanish)
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