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As a 12 year old student, he became fascinated with a programmable calculator. An empathetic instructor at a Computer Learning Center introduced him to the IBM 360 , and within a year, the youngster wound up sneaking into a computer lab at UCLA , where Vinton Cerf and his team were working on the fledgling ARPANET , and welcomed him with open arms. Kirsch was soon programming an Email system and parts of an operating system. At the suggestion of Cerf , Kirsch matriculated at MIT , where he graduated with a S.B. in electrical engineering and and a S.M. in EECS in 1980 . He founded Mouse Systems Corporation in 1982 . After he left the company, he co-founded Frame Technology Corp. in 1986 to market the FrameMaker publishing software. After Frame was acquired by Adobe Systems , he founded a Web Portal company, Infoseek Corporation , in 1994 . After Infoseek was acquired by Disney , he founded Propel Software Corporation . He used part of his fortune to set up a $75M Charitable Fund and became an Philanthropist . He has also used some of his fortune to sue people who send Junk Fax es. His latest project is the eradication of Spam . The spam product that he designed regularly achieves 99.9% accuracy in the field. He's now working on a spam filter that he believes will be more than 99.99% accurate. EXTERNAL LINKS
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