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[[FILE:Truscott.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=http://www.heimo.de/jpool/articles/Geschichte.html|Tom Truscott <ref>[http://www.heimo.de/jpool/articles/Geschichte.html Die Geschichte des Internet] by [http://www.heimo.de/jpool/index.html Heimo Ponnath] (German)</ref> ]]

an American computer scientist, best known for creating the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet Usenet] along with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Ellis_%28computing%29 Jim Ellis] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Truscott Tom Truscott from Wikipedia]</ref> and [[Steven M. Bellovin]] <ref>[https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/informal-bio.html Steven M. Bellovin - Bio]</ref>. As graduate student at the [[Duke University]] in the 70s, Truscott was early [[Checkers]] and chess programmer. The ''Duke program'' was a Checkers player written along with his fellow [[Eric Jensen]] and advisor [[Alan Biermann]], which defeated [[Arthur Samuel|Samuel's]] program in a 2-game match <ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1928&dat=19770512&id=hr4gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xmkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4778,1673986 The Lewiston Daily Sun - Google News Archive], May 12, 1977</ref> <ref>[http://www.fierz.ch/history.htm A brief history of computer checkers] by [[Martin Fierz]]</ref> <ref>[http://checkersbackground.com/samuel-s-and-the.html Samuel's and The Duke Checkers Programs]</ref>. Along with Eric Jensen and [[Bruce Wright]], Tom Truscott wrote the chess program [[Duchess]], which competed at [[ACM North American Computer Chess Championship|ACM North American Computer Chess Championships]] from 1974 to 1979 and 1981, and the 2nd and 3rd [[World Computer Chess Championship]] in [[WCCC 1977|Toronto 1977]] and [[WCCC 1980|Linz 1980]] <ref>[https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=435 Tom Truscott's ICGA Tournaments]</ref>. Tom Truscott now works for SAS <ref>[http://www.sas.com/ SAS | Business Analytics and Business Intelligence Software]</ref>, an analytics software company <ref>[http://www.giganews.com/usenet-history/truscott.html Interview with Tom Truscott] from [http://www.giganews.com/ giganews.com] April 18, 2007</ref> .