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born in Portland, Oregon
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Admitted into MIT during fall
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joined the Tech Model Railroad Club
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began devising implementations of different LISP SUBRs.
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implemented a Fortran compiler for the PDP-1.
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failed out of MIT as a first-term junior and started to work for Charles Adams Associates.
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Re-hired into MIT’s AI lab 6 months after failing out of MIT
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created the use of shallow binding for Lisp.
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co-wrote the Incompatible Timesharing Systems also known as ITS alongside Tom Knight and Steward Nelson. The ITS was an operating system for the PDP-6 and PDP-10 that was used at MIT.
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Started the MIT Lisp Machine project
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implemented Maclisp on the PDP-6
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designed a chess computer program called Mac Hack which played against Bobby Fischer, an undefeated chess champion. His program loss all 3 games.
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Mac Hack got adapted to one of the first chess dedicated computer hardware called CHEOPS, known as Chess Oriented Processing System.
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became one of the main designers along with Tom Knight, for the MIT Lisp machine and founded the company Lisp Machines, Inc.
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Accomplishments were mentioned in the book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy.
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Lisp Machines, Inc. went bankrupt
