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John T. (Jack) Holloway, an American computer scientist and LISP pioneer. As undergraduate at MIT, along with Richard Greenblatt, Tom Knight and Donald Eastlake et al., he worked for the Project MAC (Machine-Aided Cognition) on Maclisp and the ITS (Incompatible Timesharing System), the operating system on which MacLisp was developed. In 1981, Jack Holloway was one of the founders of the Lisp machine company Symbolics. He founded Epigram after Symbolics.

=CHEOPS= At the end of the 70s, while affiliated with the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, along with John Moussouris and Richard Greenblatt, Jack Holloway was involved in the development of a dedicated chess processor, the Chess-orientated Processing System CHEOPS.

=Selected Publications=
 * Donald Eastlake, Richard Greenblatt, Jack Holloway, Tom Knight, Stuart Nelson (1969). ITS 1.5 Reference Manual.
 * Alan Bawden, Richard Greenblatt, Jack Holloway, Tom Knight, David Moon, Daniel Weinreb (1977). Lisp Machine Progress Report. AI memo 444
 * John Moussouris, Jack Holloway, Richard Greenblatt (1979). CHEOPS: A Chess-orientated Processing System. Machine Intelligence 9, reprinted (1988) in Computer Chess Compendium
 * Tom Knight, David Moon, Jack Holloway, Guy L. Steele (1979). CADR. AI memo 528
 * Jack Holloway, Guy L. Steele, Gerald Jay Sussman, Alan Bell (1980). The SCHEME-79 Chip. AI memo 559
 * Corey Ziegler Hunts, Julian Ziegler Hunts, Bill Gosper, Jack Holloway (2010). Minskys & Trinskys. 3rd edition, Minsky files by Bill Gosper

=External Links=
 * Jack Holloway | LinkedIn

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