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Richard D Greenblatt was born in Portland, Oregon.
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This timeline displays major points in the life of Richard D Greenblatt, an American computer programmer.
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In the fall of 1962, Greenblatt enrolled in MIT as a undergraduate student.
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The second term of his freshman year, he joined the MIT Tech Model Railroad Club and met Peter Samson. They are both important contibuters to the programming accomplishments of this time.
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During this time Richard and Peter wrote a complier, that was originally written for the Model Railroad called the Fortran. The Fortran complier was applied to a machine known as the PDP-1.
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Greenblatt was a junior partner in designing the PDP-6 computer and was described in the book Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy as a "hacker's hacker".
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He is known for writing the program known as Maclisp and developer of the original codebase of the PDP-6.
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He was the first to write a chess program that can play respectively as a computer player.
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He advanced his work and gave the chess program the ability to play at the high school level.
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Bobby Fischer, ubeaten chess champion played 3 games against Greenblatt's Mac Hack program and beat it every time.
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Greenblatt, Tom Knight and Stewart Nelson co-wrote a program that was used in the PDP-10, known as the Imcompatable Timesharing System.
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Greenblatt founded a company in 1979 known as Lisp machines.
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Richard Greenblatt's accomplishments were greatly recognized in the book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy.
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Lisp machines was later became Gigamose Systems, Greenblatt'shacker friendly computer.
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Richard Greenblatt and Bill Gosper are recognised for founding the hacker community.
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Today Greenblatt is 70 years old
