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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> ]]
'''Thomas R. (Tom) Truscott''',<br/>
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> .
=Photos=
[[FILE:Chaos_vs_Duchess.ACM_1979.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|640px|link=http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbe2be7f]]
[[CHAOS]] vs. [[Duchess]] at the [[ACM 1979]] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbe2be7f Chaos vs. Duchess] at the [[ACM 1979|10th ACM North American Computer Chess Championship]], 1979 Gift of [[Monroe Newborn]] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref> [[David Cahlander]], [[William Toikka]], [[Fred Swartz]] and Tom Truscott
[[FILE:Chess_Pioneers_Mittman_Newborn_Marsland_Slate_Levy_Shannon_Thompson_Truscott.c1980.102665753.lg.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|640px|link=http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102665753]]
Chess pioneers in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Sacher Sacher Hotel Vienna], Austria 1980: [[Ben Mittman]], [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]], [[Tony Marsland]],<br/>[[David Slate|Dave Slate]], [[David Levy]], [[Claude Shannon]], [[Ken Thompson]], Betty Shannon, [[Tom Truscott]] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102665753 Chess pioneers in Sacher Hotel Vienna, Austria], Gift of [[Ben Mittman|Benjamin Mittman]], [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>
=Quotes=
From [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hauben Michael] and Ronda Hauben's netbook ''[http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/project_book.html Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet]'' <ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ch106.x10 Chapter 10 - On the early days of Usenet: The Roots of the cooperative Online Culture] a draft chapter from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hauben Michael Hauben], Ronda Hauben ('''1997'''). ''[http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/project_book.html Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet].'' [http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0818677066.html Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press], ISBN: 978-0-8186-7706-9</ref>:
[[Tom Truscott|Truscott]] and [[Bruce Wright|Wright]] continued to participate in the Chess Tournaments and in 1980 they competed in the 3rd world Computer Chess Championship held in Linz, Austria. [[Ken Thompson|Thompson]] and [[Joe Condon]], who was a researcher at [[Bell Laboratories|Bell Labs]], were also in the competition. Truscott notes that Thompson and Condon "had completed their hardware chess machine and snagged first place. [[Duchess]] came in third. And [[Claude Shannon]] was in attendance, and even handed out the trophies at the awards ceremony. Afterwards we all went over to a TV studio to watch a West German TV special on computer chess and the championship. Claude Shannon and his wife were very engaging people. Someone took a photo of all of us, I have a copy buried somewhere".
=Publications=
* [[Tom Truscott]] ('''1978'''). ''Computer-Checkers''. [[Personal Computing#2_9|Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 9]], pp. 86
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hauben Michael Hauben], Ronda Hauben ('''1997'''). ''[http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/project_book.html Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet].'' [http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0818677066.html Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press], ISBN: 978-0-8186-7706-9 <ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ch106.x10 Chapter 10 - On the early days of Usenet: The Roots of the cooperative Online Culture] a draft chapter</ref>
=Usenet Posts=
* [http://quux.org:70/Archives/usenet-a-news/NET.chess/82.01.07_duke.1593_net.chess.txt compact representation of chess positions] by [[Tom Truscott]], net.chess, January 7, 1982 » [[Zobrist Hashing]] <ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.computer/browse_frm/thread/a0a82ffbb59b7ced Re: Hashing function for board positions] post 4 by [[James Gillogly|Jim Gillogly]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], May 12, 1997</ref>
=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Truscott Tom Truscott from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Duke_University_people List of Duke University people from Wikipedia]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=435 Tom Truscott's ICGA Tournaments]
* [http://www.newsdemon.com/tom-truscott-usenet-founder.php Newsdemon - Tom Truscott Biography]
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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> ]]
'''Thomas R. (Tom) Truscott''',<br/>
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> .
=Photos=
[[FILE:Chaos_vs_Duchess.ACM_1979.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|640px|link=http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbe2be7f]]
[[CHAOS]] vs. [[Duchess]] at the [[ACM 1979]] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbe2be7f Chaos vs. Duchess] at the [[ACM 1979|10th ACM North American Computer Chess Championship]], 1979 Gift of [[Monroe Newborn]] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref> [[David Cahlander]], [[William Toikka]], [[Fred Swartz]] and Tom Truscott
[[FILE:Chess_Pioneers_Mittman_Newborn_Marsland_Slate_Levy_Shannon_Thompson_Truscott.c1980.102665753.lg.jpg|none|border|text-bottom|640px|link=http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102665753]]
Chess pioneers in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Sacher Sacher Hotel Vienna], Austria 1980: [[Ben Mittman]], [[Monroe Newborn|Monty Newborn]], [[Tony Marsland]],<br/>[[David Slate|Dave Slate]], [[David Levy]], [[Claude Shannon]], [[Ken Thompson]], Betty Shannon, [[Tom Truscott]] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102665753 Chess pioneers in Sacher Hotel Vienna, Austria], Gift of [[Ben Mittman|Benjamin Mittman]], [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref>
=Quotes=
From [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hauben Michael] and Ronda Hauben's netbook ''[http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/project_book.html Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet]'' <ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ch106.x10 Chapter 10 - On the early days of Usenet: The Roots of the cooperative Online Culture] a draft chapter from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hauben Michael Hauben], Ronda Hauben ('''1997'''). ''[http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/project_book.html Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet].'' [http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0818677066.html Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press], ISBN: 978-0-8186-7706-9</ref>:
[[Tom Truscott|Truscott]] and [[Bruce Wright|Wright]] continued to participate in the Chess Tournaments and in 1980 they competed in the 3rd world Computer Chess Championship held in Linz, Austria. [[Ken Thompson|Thompson]] and [[Joe Condon]], who was a researcher at [[Bell Laboratories|Bell Labs]], were also in the competition. Truscott notes that Thompson and Condon "had completed their hardware chess machine and snagged first place. [[Duchess]] came in third. And [[Claude Shannon]] was in attendance, and even handed out the trophies at the awards ceremony. Afterwards we all went over to a TV studio to watch a West German TV special on computer chess and the championship. Claude Shannon and his wife were very engaging people. Someone took a photo of all of us, I have a copy buried somewhere".
=Publications=
* [[Tom Truscott]] ('''1978'''). ''Computer-Checkers''. [[Personal Computing#2_9|Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 9]], pp. 86
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hauben Michael Hauben], Ronda Hauben ('''1997'''). ''[http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/project_book.html Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet].'' [http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0818677066.html Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press], ISBN: 978-0-8186-7706-9 <ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ch106.x10 Chapter 10 - On the early days of Usenet: The Roots of the cooperative Online Culture] a draft chapter</ref>
=Usenet Posts=
* [http://quux.org:70/Archives/usenet-a-news/NET.chess/82.01.07_duke.1593_net.chess.txt compact representation of chess positions] by [[Tom Truscott]], net.chess, January 7, 1982 » [[Zobrist Hashing]] <ref>[http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.chess.computer/browse_frm/thread/a0a82ffbb59b7ced Re: Hashing function for board positions] post 4 by [[James Gillogly|Jim Gillogly]], [[Computer Chess Forums|rgcc]], May 12, 1997</ref>
=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Truscott Tom Truscott from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Duke_University_people List of Duke University people from Wikipedia]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=435 Tom Truscott's ICGA Tournaments]
* [http://www.newsdemon.com/tom-truscott-usenet-founder.php Newsdemon - Tom Truscott Biography]
=References=
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