Aaron Swartz, Pencipta RSS 1.0 Tewas Bunuh Diri
Aaron Swartz, Author RSS 1.0 Found Dead Suicide
Editor : Heru S Winarno
Translator : Dhelia Gani
Minggu, 13 Januari 2013
Aaron Swartz (Foto: washingtonpost.com)

New York (B2B) - Bocah 'ajaib' di bidang komputer dan pegiat Internet Aaron Swartz, yang membantu menciptakan versi teranyar sistem "web feed" RSS dan menghadapi dakwaan pidana federal dalam kasus kontroversial penipuan, telah bunuh diri dalam usia 26 tahun, kata pihak berwenang.

Polisi menemukan mayat Swartz di apartemennya di Brooklyn, New York, Jumat, kata wanita Juru Bicara kepala pemeriksa medis di kota ini. Ia memutuskan kematian Swartz adalah bunuh diri dengan menggantung diri.

Swarts mendapat banyak pujian sebagai pencipta format Web feed RSS 1.0 yang ia kerjakan dalam usia 14 tahun, demikian isi satu posting blog temannya, penulis fiksi ilmiah Cory Doctorow.

RSS, kependekan dari Rich Site Summary, adalah format bagi pengiriman kepada pengguna isi dari laman yang berubah terus, seperti blog dan laman berita.

Selama bertahun-tahun, ia menjadi buah bibir daring karena membantu membuat segunung informasi maya secara gratis bagi masyarakat umum, termasuk 19 juta halaman dokumen pengadilan federal dari sistem hukum-kasus PACER.


New York - Internet activist and computer prodigy Aaron Swartz, who helped create an early version of the Web feed system RSS and was facing federal criminal charges in a controversial fraud case, has committed suicide at age 26, authorities said on Saturday.

Police found Swartz's body in his apartment in the New York City borough of Brooklyn on Friday, according to a spokeswoman for the city's chief medical examiner, which ruled the death a suicide by hanging.

Swartz is widely credited with being a co-author of the specifications for the Web feed format RSS 1.0, which he worked on at age 14, according to a blog post on Saturday from his friend, science fiction author Cory Doctorow.

RSS, which stands for Rich Site Summary, is a format for delivering to users content from sites that change constantly, such as news pages and blogs.

Over the years, he became an online icon for helping to make a virtual mountain of information freely available to the public, including an estimated 19 million pages of federal court documents from the PACER case-law system.
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