Daniel Edwards

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Daniel J. Edwards, an American computer scientist with a long-term career as a computer security researcher at the National Security Agency (NSA). In 1972 he coined the term Trojan horse for malicious computer programs. In the 60s, while affiliated with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he was involved in the initial development of LISP within the group of John McCarthy. Along with Timothy Hart, Daniel Edwards wrote a memo on Alpha-Beta in December 1961, revised version in 1963. It also contains a Theorem by Michael Levin, the well known formula of the number of leaf nodes that need to be examined in Alpha-Beta.

=Quotes=

LISP
=See also=
 * History of Alpha-Beta
 * LISP

=Selected Publications=
 * Daniel Edwards (1960). LISP II Garbage Collector. AIM-19
 * Daniel Edwards, Timothy Hart (1961). The Alpha-Beta Heuristic. AIM-030
 * John McCarthy, Paul W. Abrahams, Daniel Edwards, Timothy Hart, Michael Levin (1962). LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual. The M.I.T. Press, second edition (1985) as pdf
 * Daniel Edwards, Jeffrey R. Yost (2013). Oral history interview with Daniel J. Edwards. Charles Babbage Institute

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