Richard Greenblatt

  • Greenblatt is born

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    Greenblatt learns to play chess during this timeframe

  • Greenblatt arrives at MIT--Fall 1962

  • Greenblatt begins hanging around TRMC near this time

  • Greenblatt implements Maclisp on the PDP-6 this year

  • Greenblatt flunks out of MIT around this time

  • Greenblat's MacHack beats Hubert Dreyfus around this time

  • Greenblatt gets Merton from the hospital, they become friends

  • Greenblatt and Nelson write ITS this year

  • Mac Hack chess program plays first tournament this month

  • Greenblatt one of the few hackers to stay at MIT

  • Designs the MIT Lisp machine with Tom Knight this year

  • Lisp Machine Lisp, decendant of Maclisp, near this year

  • Lisp Machines, Inc starts around this time

  • Common Lisp, improved successor of Maclisp made this year