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'''Richard D. Greenblatt''',
an American computer programmer, along with [[Bill Gosper]] 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> . At [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], working for the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MAC%7CProject Project MAC] (Machine-Aided Cognition), he was the main implementor of [[ListLisp#Maclist|Maclisp]] on the [[PDP-6]] and co-developer of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incompatible_Timesharing_System ITS] (Incompatible Timesharing System), the operating system on which MacLisp was developed.
Richard Greenblatt was primary author of [[Mac Hack]] (The Greenblatt Chess Program) in 1966 and [[Timeline#1967|1967]], and along with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Knight_%28scientist%29 Tom Knight] main designer of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine MIT Lisp machine]. In 1978 Mac Hack got adapted to the Chess-orientated Processing System [[CHEOPS]], one of the first dedicated hardware approaches in computer chess.
