Brewster Kahle

Biography

Brewster Lurton Kahle is a digital librarian, computer engineer, and internet entrepreneur born in New York City in 1960. He graduated from MIT in 1982 with a degree in computer science and engineering, studying artificial intelligence under Marvin Minsky and W. Daniel Hillis. As the founder of the Internet Archive and co-founder of Alexa Internet, Kahle has been a pioneering figure in web archiving and digital information access, receiving numerous awards for his work.