Gregory B. Newby

Gregory B. Newby (February 9, 1965 – October 21, 2025) was an American and Canadian information scientist who worked on supercomputing projects and increasing access to information using the Internet. He was the volunteer CEO of the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the organization supporting the Project Gutenberg library of digitized ebooks, and was a longtime volunteer for the conference Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE). In the 1990s and 2000s, he taught in the library and information science departments at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Provided by Wikipedia