John Pasta

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John R. Pasta, (1918 – June 5, 1981) was an American computer scientist, known for his participation in the Manhattan Project and the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou experiment. In 1952, at Los Alamos National Laboratory, working under Nicholas Metropolis on the MANIAC I, John Pasta aided in the construction of an early computer that specialized in calculations around weapons design. John Pasta was head of the department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1964 to 1970.

=MANIAC I= According to John McCarthy's quote, Pasta is considered as early chess programmer, co-developing the MANIAC I chess program.

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=See also=
 * History of Computer Chess

=Selected Publications=
 * Kent K. Curtis, Nicholas C. Metropolis, William G. Rosen, Yoshio Shimamoto, James N. Snyder (1983). John R. Pasta, 1918-1981-An Unusual Path Toward Computer Science. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 5, No. 3

=External Links=
 * John Pasta from Wikipedia
 * Computer Pioneers - John R. Pasta - IEEE Computer Society
 * Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem from Wikipedia

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