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'''John T. (Jack) Holloway''',<br/>
an American computer scientist and [[LISP]] pioneer. As undergraduate at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], along with [[Richard Greenblatt]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Knight_%28scientist%29 Tom Knight] and [[Donald Eastlake]] et al., he worked for the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Computer_Science_and_Artificial_Intelligence_Laboratory#Project_MAC Project MAC] (Machine-Aided Cognition) on [[LISP#Maclisp|Maclisp]] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incompatible_Timesharing_System ITS] (Incompatible Timesharing System), the operating system on which MacLisp was developed.
In 1981, Jack Holloway was one of the founders of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine Lisp machine] company [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolics Symbolics] <ref>[https://danluu.com/symbolics-lisp-machines/ History of Symbolics lisp machines]</ref> . He founded ''Epigram'' after Symbolics <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Russell_Noftsker User:Russell Noftsker from Wikipedia]</ref>.
=CHEOPS=
At the end of the 70s, while affiliated with the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Computer_Science_and_Artificial_Intelligence_Laboratory Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory], along with [[John Moussouris]] and [[Richard Greenblatt]], Jack Holloway was involved in developing the development of a dedicated chess processor, the ''Chess-orientated Processing System'' [[CHEOPS]] <ref>[[John Moussouris]], [[Jack Holloway]], [[Richard Greenblatt]] ('''1979'''). ''[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=61701.67028 CHEOPS: A Chess-orientated Processing System]''. [http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/%7Eshm/MI/mi9.html Machine Intelligence 9], reprinted ('''1988''') in [[Computer Chess Compendium]]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
* [[Mathematician#TKnight|Tom Knight]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Moon David Moon], [[Jack Holloway]], [[Mathematician#GSteele|Guy L. Steele]] ('''1979'''). ''[https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5718 CADR]''. AI memo 528 <ref>[http://www.unlambda.com/cadr/ Retrocomputing - MIT CADR Lisp Machines]</ref>
* [[Jack Holloway]], [[Mathematician#GSteele|Guy L. Steele]], [[Mathematician#Sussman|Gerald Jay Sussman]], Alan Bell ('''1980'''). ''[https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6334 The SCHEME-79 Chip]''. AI memo 559
* Corey Ziegler Hunts, Julian Ziegler Hunts, [[Bill Gosper]], [[Jack Holloway]] ('''2010'''). ''[http://www.blurb.com/b/2172660-minskys-trinskys-3rd-edition Minskys & Trinskys]''. 3rd edition, [http://gosper.org/Minskys/ Minsky files] by Bill Gosper <ref>[https://nbickford.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/the-minsky-circle-algorithm/ The Minsky Circle Algorithm – Random (Blog)] by [https://nbickford.wordpress.com/author/nbickford/ Neil Bickford], April 3, 2011</ref> » [[Marvin Minsky]]
=External Links=
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-holloway-2a458015a/ Jack Holloway | LinkedIn]
=References=
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