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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Australian computer programmers, Australian computer scientists, Greg Egan, Andrew Tridgell, Andrew Morton, Julian Assange, Neil J. Gunther, Gernot Heiser, Rodney Brooks, Charles Leonard Hamblin, Paul Justin Compton, Jeff Waugh, Jonathan Oxer, A. Richard Newton, Vaughan Pratt, Pia Waugh, Rick Jelliffe, John Makepeace Bennett, Martin Dougiamas, Anthony Towns, Chris Wallace, Con Kolivas, Brian Henderson-Sellers, Paul Voermans, Richard P. Brent, Rusty Russell, Adam Kennedy, Peter Bernus, Terry Halpin, John Lions, Michael Georgeff, James Turnbull, Damian Conway, Tim Hartnell, Alex Fraser, Ross Williams, Ori Allon, Allan Bromley, Claude Sammut, Zoltan Somogyi, Brendan McKay, Don Syme, Carlo Kopp, Kenny Sabir, Lawrie Brown, Mark Delany, Trevor Pearcey, Willy Susilo, Carroll Morgan, Esmond Pitt, Leon Sterling, Nathan Hurst. Excerpt: Julian Paul Assange (; born 3 July 1971) is an Australian publisher, journalist, computer programmer and Internet activist. He is the editor in chief of WikiLeaks, a whistleblower website and conduit for worldwide news leaks, with the stated purpose of creating open governments. Assange was a hacker in his youth, before becoming a computer programmer. He has lived in several countries and has made public appearances in many parts of the world to speak about freedom of the press, censorship and investigative journalism. Assange serves on the WikiLeaks advisory board. WikiLeaks has published material about extrajudicial killings in Kenya, toxic waste dumping in Cote d'Ivoire, Church of Scientology manuals, Guantanamo Bay procedures, and banks such as Kaupthing and Julius Baer. In 2010, WikiLeaks published Iraq War documents and Afghan War documents about American involvement in the wars, some of which was classified material. On 28 November 2010, WikiLeaks and its five international print media ...
