Red Burns, ‘Godmother of Silicon Alley,' Dies at 88
Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times Red Burns, founder of the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University.
Red Burns, an educator who gained wide recognition for pushing for more creative uses of modern communications, helping to lead the movement for public access to cable television and starting a celebrated New York University program to foster Internet wizards, died on Friday at her Manhattan home. She was 88.
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