Richard(Ricky) D. Greenblatt By mschristopher Dec 25, 1944 Born December 25, 1994 1954 Went with his dad to the visit Memorial Student Union at the University of Missouri 1954 Played chess at 9 years old against college students at University of Missouri 1962 Enrolled in MIT 1962 Designed MIT Lisp Machine with Tom Knight 1963 Joined the Tech Model Railroad Club 1964 PDP - 1 1964 FORTRAN 1964 Partnered with Bill Gosper to create hacker community 1965 Failed out MIT, Perfected hacker ethic 1966 Work on MacLISP Compiler: PDP-6 1967 AI Lab 1967 MacHack 1967 The defense of time-sharing, incompatible timesharing system 1969 the spread of MacHack 1979 Designed MIT Lisp Machine with Tom Knight 1984 Hackers: Heroes of the Computer