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[[File:Bill_Gosper_2006.jpg|border|right|thumb|240px|Bill Gosper 2006 <ref>Mathematician Bill Gosper in March, 2006 at the [http://www.ifp.illinois.edu/~sdickson/G4G7/G4G7_Trip_Report.html Seventh Gathering for Gardner] (G4G7) in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta Atlanta], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_%28U.S._state%29 Georgia], March 16, 2006, Photographer [http://www.flickr.com/people/thane/ Thane Plambeck]</ref>]]

an American mathematician and computer scientist, along with [[Richard Greenblatt]] 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>. In the 60s, affiliated with [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], he worked for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MAC%7CProject Project MAC] (Machine-Aided Cognition), where his contributions to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_mathematics computational mathematics] and [[Bit-Twiddling]] include [[#HAKMEM|HAKMEM]] and [[Lisp#Maclisp|Maclisp]]. He helped Greenblatt with his chess program [[Mac Hack|Mac Hack VI]], and operated the [[PDP-6]] when [[Mac Hack#RobertQ|Robert Q]] played its first tournament game versus Carl Wagner.

* Bill Gosper ('''1974'''). ''[https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6088 Acceleration of Series], Memo 304''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Computer_Science_and_Artificial_Intelligence_Laboratory CSAIL], [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]

* Bill Gosper ('''1977'''). ''Decision procedure for indefinite hypergeometric summation''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proceedings_of_the_National_Academy_of_Sciences_of_the_United_States_of_America PNAS USA], Vol. 75, No. 1, [http://www.pnas.org/content/75/1/40.full.pdf pdf] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosper%27s_algorithm Gosper's algorithm from Wikipedia]</ref>

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