Academia and Early Career
Kuhn attended Loyola Blakefield, followed by Loyola College in Maryland, graduating in May 1995 with a summa cum laude Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
Kuhn attended graduate school in Computer Science at the University of Cincinnati. His graduate adviser was John Franco. Kuhn received a USENIX student grant scholarship for his thesis work., which focused on dynamic interoperability of free software languages, using a port of Perl to the Java Virtual Machine as an example. Larry Wall served on Kuhn's thesis committee. Kuhn's thesis showed various problems regarding the use of stack-based virtual machines for Perl, and this discovery became part of the justification for the launch of the Parrot project.
Kuhn was an active participant in the Perl6 RFC Process, and headed the perl6-licensing committee during the process. He authored all RFCs submitted to the process on licensing.
Kuhn taught AP Computer Science at Walnut Hills High School for the 1998-1999 academic year, using a GNU/Linux-based lab built by the students themselves.
Kuhn volunteered for the Free Software Foundation throughout graduate school, and was hired part time as Richard Stallman's assistant in January 2000. Kuhn is seen posting to lists in his professional capacity around this time. During his early employment at the FSF, Kuhn suggested the creation of and maintained the FSF license list page, and argued against license proliferation.
Kuhn was also an early and active member of the Cincinnati Linux User Group during this period, serving on its Board of Directors in 1998 and giving numerous presentations.
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