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Richard D Greenblatt was born in Portland, Oregon. -
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Richard D Greenblatt
This timeline displays major points in the life of Richard D Greenblatt, an American computer programmer. -
College
In the fall of 1962, Greenblatt enrolled in MIT as a undergraduate student. -
MIT Tech Model Railroad Club
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. -
PDP-1
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. -
PDP-6
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". -
Maclisp
He is known for writing the program known as Maclisp and developer of the original codebase of the PDP-6. -
Mac Hack
He was the first to write a chess program that can play respectively as a computer player. -
Programming
He advanced his work and gave the chess program the ability to play at the high school level. -
Chess
Bobby Fischer, ubeaten chess champion played 3 games against Greenblatt's Mac Hack program and beat it every time. -
Timesharing
Greenblatt, Tom Knight and Stewart Nelson co-wrote a program that was used in the PDP-10, known as the Imcompatable Timesharing System. -
Lisp Machines, Inc.
Greenblatt founded a company in 1979 known as Lisp machines. -
Hackers: Heoes of the Computer Revolution
Richard Greenblatt's accomplishments were greatly recognized in the book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy. -
Gigamose Systems
Lisp machines was later became Gigamose Systems, Greenblatt'shacker friendly computer. -
Accomplishments
Richard Greenblatt and Bill Gosper are recognised for founding the hacker community. -
Currently
Today Greenblatt is 70 years old
