Richard Greenblatt

Updated: 12/31/2020 by Computer Hope
Richard Greenblatt

Name: Richard Greenblatt

Born: December 25, 1944, in Portland, Oregon USA

Computer-related contributions

  • American computer programmer.
  • One of the founders of the hacker community with Bill Gosper.
  • Main implementer of Maclisp on the PDP-6.
  • Wrote Mac Hack, the first computer program to play tournament-level chess and the first to compete in a human chess tournament.
  • One of the main designers of the MIT LISP machine.

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