Biography:Steve Kirsch
Steven T. Kirsch | |
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| Born | December 24, 1956 Los Angeles County, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Inventing the optical mouse, FrameMaker, founder of Infoseek |
| Net worth | US$230 million (2007)[1] |
Steven Todd Kirsch (born December 24, 1956) is an American serial entrepreneur. He has started several companies, including Mouse Systems, Frame Technology Corp., Infoseek and OneID. He was one of two people who coincidentally invented the optical mouse.[2] In 2007, his personal fortune was estimated at $230 million, the majority earned from the IPO of Infoseek and the acquisition of Frame Technology.[1]
Career
Kirsch has a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[3]
In 2005 he founded Abaca, which made a spam filter (99.99% accurate according to two reviews).[4][5]
In September 2011, he started OneID[6] which is creating a user-centric Internet-scale digital identity system that uses public key cryptography to replace usernames and passwords with a single, stable, secure, digital identity that preserves privacy and is compatible with the NSTIC[7] goals.[8]
In Mid-2020, Kirsch founded the Covid-19 Treatment Fund (CETF) to fund research into off-label treatments for Covid-19 [9]. In May 2021, Kirsch posted an article online making an unfounded claim that COVID-19 vaccines affect fertility, while also underplaying the vaccines' ability to prevent illness and death.[10] The following month, Kirsch appeared in a YouTube video posted with Bret Weinstein and Robert W. Malone to discuss COVID-19 vaccines. In the video, Kirsch makes several false claims, including that spike proteins used in COVID-19 vaccines are "very dangerous".[11][12]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Markoff, John (December 3, 2007). "Spam's End? Maybe, if Time Allows". Nytimes.com. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/03/technology/03kirsch.html.
- ↑ Sherr, Sol (2 December 2012). Input Devices. Elsevier Science. p. 221. ISBN 978-0-323-15643-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=vzQb4zaWWl4C&pg=PA221.
- ↑ "Kirsch Foundation: About The Founders". Kirschfoundation.org. http://www.kirschfoundation.org/who/about.html.
- ↑ "Tolly Group Review of Abaca". Tolly Group. http://www.abaca.com/downloads/Tolly_Abaca%20Email%20Protection%20Gateway.pdf.
- ↑ "Spam Star". Network Computing. http://www.abaca.com/downloads/networkcomputing_aug09.pdf.
- ↑ "oneid.com". oneid.com. 2012-06-14. http://www.oneid.com.
- ↑ "National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace". Nist.gov. https://www.nist.gov/nstic/.
- ↑ Hardy, Quentin (2011-11-03). "OneID Aims to Unite Devices to Fight Hackers". The New York Times. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/oneid-aims-to-unite-devices-to-fight-hackers/.
- ↑ "This tech millionaire went from covid trial funder to misinformation superspreader". MIT Technology Review. https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/10/05/1036408/silicon-valley-millionaire-steve-kirsch-covid-vaccine-misinformation/.
- ↑ Teoh, Flora (June 24, 2021). "COVID-19 vaccines don’t affect ovaries or fertility in general; the vaccines are highly effective at preventing illness and death". https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/covid-19-vaccines-dont-affect-ovaries-or-fertility-in-general-the-vaccines-are-highly-effective-at-preventing-illness-and-death/. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
- ↑ Reuters Fact Check (June 18, 2021). "Fact Check-COVID-19 vaccines are not ‘cytotoxic’". Reuters. Thomson Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-vaccine-cytotoxic-idUSL2N2O01XP.
- ↑ "No sign that the COVID-19 vaccines’ spike protein is toxic or ‘cytotoxic’". June 16, 2021. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jun/16/youtube-videos/no-sign-covid-19-vaccines-spike-protein-toxic-or-c/. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
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