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Brewster Kahle (pronounced like ' Kale ') was an early member of the Thinking Machines team, where he invented the WAIS system. He later started WAIS, Inc. (sold to AOL ), the nonprofit Internet Archive , and the related for-profit Alexa Internet (sold to Amazon.com ). He continues to run the Internet Archive As Of 2005 . He is also a key supporter of the Open Content Alliance . His goal is "Universal Access to all Knowledge". Kahle was a plaintiff, along with film archivist and fellow Internet Archive contributor Rick Prelinger , in '' Kahle V. Ashcroft ''. The plaintiffs in that case asserted that the striking of the renewal requirement on Copyright ed works (in the Berne Convention Implementation Act and Copyright Term Extension Act ) stands in violation of the First Amendment by preventing orphaned works from entering the Public Domain . In 2005, Kahle was elected to the American Academy Of Arts And Sciences . Kahle is a member of the board of directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation . Kahle and his wife created the Kahle/Austin Foundation , a US$45 million trust which in 2003 gave US$1,787,175 to Internet Archive. Kahle holds an SB Degree in Computer Science & Engineering from MIT . EXTERNAL LINKS
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