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In Oregon, the hacker/computer programmer is born.
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In the fall of 1962, Richard enrolls in MIT
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Around his second term as an undergraduate student, he found his way to this famous tech club.
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He wrote a complier with Peter, which was originally written for the Fortran. The Fortran complier was then applied to a machine known as the PDP-1.
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After helping design PDP-6, Richard was led to the Al Lab where he proceeded to become a "hackers hacker".
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Richard was a junior partner in designing the PDP-6 computer
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Richard is known for writing the program Maclisp
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He wrote Mac Hack, the first program to play tournament-level chess and the first to compete in a human chess tournament.
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Hubert Dreyfus, who famously made the claim that computers would not be able to play high quality chess, was beaten by the program. Marking the beginning of respectable computer chess performances.
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Greenblatt, Tom Knight, and Stewart Nelson co-wrote a program that was used in PDP-10, known as the Imcompatable Timesharing System.
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Richard and his colleague, work on a later project to build machines specialized for artifice intelligence work.
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Richard founded the company known as Lisp Machines.
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Richards accomplishments are recognized in the book, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy.
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Lisp Machines now become Gigamose Systems, Greenblatt's hacker friendly computer.
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Richard Greenblatt and Bill Gosper are recognised for founding the hacker community.
