Biography
Russell Noftsker was born February 1942 and went through his education to high school in Carlsbad, New Mexico. Steven Levy described Noftsker as "A compactly built blond with pursed features and blue eyes". Noftsker earned a degree in engineering from New Mexico State University and was hired in 1965 by Marvin Minsky to replace MIT's administrator of the AI Lab, Dan Edwards, who had recently left that post. He would later hire Richard Stallman as a systems programmer for the lab.
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