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Richard Greenblatt

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an American computer programmer, along with [[Bill Gosper]] considered the co-founder of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture hacker] community <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Computer_Revolution Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution]</ref> . At [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], working for the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MAC%7CProject Project MAC] (Machine-Aided Cognition), he was the main implementor of [[Lisp#Maclist|Maclisp]] on the [[PDP-6]] and co-developer of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incompatible_Timesharing_System ITS] (Incompatible Timesharing System), the operating system on which MacLisp was developed.
Richard Greenblatt was primary author of [[Mac Hack]] (The Greenblatt Chess Program) in 1966 and [[Timeline#1967|1967]], and along with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Knight_%28scientist%29 [Mathematician#TKnight|Tom Knight]] main designer of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine MIT Lisp machine]. In 1978 Mac Hack got adapted to the Chess-orientated Processing System [[CHEOPS]], one of the first dedicated hardware approaches in computer chess.
In 1979, Greenblatt founded [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_Machines Lisp Machines, Inc.] to build and sell [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_Machines Lisp machines], competing with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolics Symbolics], a company founded by his former [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_Lab MIT AI Lab] fellows around [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Noftsker Russell Noftsker], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Knight_%28scientist%29 [Mathematician#TKnight|Tom Knight]] and [[Jack Holloway]]. Lisp Machines, Inc. went bankrupt in 1987.
=Photos=
[[File:2-4.Greenblatt-Richard_Knight.1978.L02645385.MIT.lg.jpg|none|border|text-bottom]]
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Knight_%28scientist%29 [Mathematician#TKnight|Tom Knight]] and Richard Greenblatt (right) <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-431614f64ea3e Richard Greenblatt and Thomas Knight with the CADR LISP Machine at MIT], Courtesy of [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], hosted by [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref> <ref>[http://ljkrakauer.com/LJK/60s/moby.htm Moby Memory] by [[Lawrence J. Krakauer]]</ref>
=Selected Publications=
* [[Richard Greenblatt]], [[Donald Eastlake]], [[Stephen D. Crocker]] ('''1967'''). ''The Greenblatt Chess Program''. Proceedings of the AfiPs Fall Joint Computer Conference, Vol. 31, reprinted ('''1988''') in [[Computer Chess Compendium]], [http://archive.computerhistory.org/projects/chess/related_materials/text/2-4.Greenblatt_Chess_Program/The_Greenblatt_Chess_Program.Greenblatt_Eastlake_Crocker.1967.Fall_Joint_Computer_Conference.062303060.sm.pdf pdf] from [[The Computer History Museum]] or as [http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6176 pdf or ps] from [http://libraries.mit.edu/dspace-mit/ DSpace] at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]* [[Donald Eastlake]], [[Richard Greenblatt]], [[Jack Holloway]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Knight_%28scientist%29 [Mathematician#TKnight|Tom Knight]], Stuart Nelson ('''1969'''). ''ITS 1.5 Reference Manual''. [httphttps://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/6165/AIM-161AITS 1.pdf pdf5 Reference Manual]''. * [[Hans Berliner]], [[Richard Greenblatt]], [[Jacques Pitrat]], [[Arthur Samuel]], [[David Slate]] ('''1977'''). ''Panel on Computer Game Playing''. [[Conferences#IJCAI1977|IJCAI 1977]], [http://ijcai.org/Past%20Proceedings/IJCAI-77-VOL2/PDF/087.pdf pdf]* [[Mathematician#ABawden|Alan Bawden]], [[Richard Greenblatt]], [[Jack Holloway]], [[Mathematician#TKnight|Tom Knight]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Moon David Moon], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Weinreb Daniel Weinreb] ('''1977'''). ''[https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5751?show=full Lisp Machine Progress Report]''. AI memo 444* [[John Moussouris]], [[Jack Holloway]], [[Richard Greenblatt ]] ('''1979'''). ''[httphttps://portaldl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=61701.67028 CHEOPS: A Chess-orientated Processing System]''. [http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~shm%7Eshm/MI/mi9.html Machine Intelligence 9] ([[Jean Hayes Michie]], [[Donald Michie]] and L.I. Mikulich editors) Ellis Horwood, Chichester, 1979, reprinted ('''1988''') in [[Computer Chess Compendium]]* [[Richard Greenblatt ]] ('''1992'''). ''Wedgitude''. [[ICGA Journal#15_4|ICCA Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4]] » [[WCCC 1992#Workshop|WCCC 1992 Workshop]] <ref>Richard Greenblatt: "[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wedgitude Wedgitude] is not an accepted English word. It is a bit of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_%28term%29 hacker] jargon, coined, I believe, by the famous hacker [[Bill Gosper]]. We say a system is [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wedge wedged] if there exists a binding, a clashing deep within its bowels, that prevents progress you would otherwise expect. Wedgitude, then, by a well-known English transformation, is the state of being wedged".</ref>
* [[Jaap van den Herik]] ('''1992'''). ''An Interview with Richard D. Greenblatt''. [[ICGA Journal#15_4|ICCA Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4]], [https://pure.uvt.nl/portal/files/1241899/Inter_ICCA_newsletter_vol_15_no_4.pdf pdf]

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