Biographies of League Officers and Directors
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Jack Larsen (president, and director ex officio) was the first employee of the telemetry project at Princeton University in 1943 as an offshoot of a student project in nuclear physics.  Digital and analogue data processing was a large part of his fifteen-year engineering career in avionics.  Interests in the public policy of science led to two law degrees, and a career in patent law.  While representing MIT he began teaching patent and trade- mark law at Suffolk University Law school, and continued for fifteen years, became Professor and Director of the Center for the Law of New Technology at the new Lewis University College of Law, then returned to a practice which includes litigation, copyright and licensing of software products and other intellectual property.  His firm is Otto and Blumenthal of Park Ridge, IL, near O'Hare Field.

Christian D. Hofstader (clerk and director) was one of the founding members of the LPF and has served as the League's clerk since the beginning.  He has performed the following tasks for the League: getting stickers printed, opening mail, answering the voice mail, attending trade shows, organizing the SD 90 effort as well as many others.  This year Chris will continue with many of those tasks as well as take on speaking engagements.

Chris is a former professional political activist and now works as a software engineer specializing in assembly language programming.

Stephen G. Sisak (treasurer and director) became the League's treasurer when Denis Filipetti resigned the position in August 1990.  Before becoming treasurer Steve was one of the League's most active volunteers. He was instrumental is getting the supplies and labor necessary for us to be successful at AAAI as well as performing numerous smaller tasks.

Professionally Steve works as a software engineer specializing in Macintosh programming.

Guy L. Steele Jr. is a Senior Scientist at Thinking Machines Corporation.  He received his A.B. in applied mathematics from Harvard College (1975), and his S.M. and Ph.D. in computer science and artificial intelligence from MIT (1977 and 1980).  He has been an assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie-Mellon University and a member of technical staff at Tartan Laboratories.

He is author or co-author of three books: Common Lisp: The Language; C: A Reference Manual; and The Hacker's Dictionary.  He has served on the ANSI standards committee X3J11 (C language), and is currently vice-chairman of X3J13 (Common Lisp).  The ACM awarded him the 1988 Grace Murray Hopper Award.

Richard M. Stallman (director ex oficio) was the first president of the League.  Before that, he organized the first protest rally at Lotus, and the initial production of the Fanged Apple buttons.  Professionally, he is best known for his work with the Free Software Foundation on the free operating system GNU.  He received a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in 1990, and was recently awarded the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award.