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Richard D. Greenblatt is an American programmer. Along with Bill Gosper , he may be considered to have founded the Hacker community, and holds pride of place in the Lisp and the MIT AI Lab communities. BECOMING A HACKER Greenblatt enrolled in '' dubbed him. Indeed, he spent so much time programming the PDP machines there he failed out of MIT as a sophomore and had to take a job at the Charles Addams Associates firm until the AI Lab re-hired him. He was the main implementor of Maclisp on the PDP-6 . He wrote MacHack , in response to the claim by AI sceptic Hubert Dreyfus that computers would not be able to play chess. Dreyfus was beaten by the program, marking the beginning of Computer Chess . He also wrote, with Tom Knight and Stewart Nelson , the Incompatible Timesharing System , a highly influential Timesharing operating system for the PDP-6 and PDP-10 used at MIT . Later, he was the main designer of the MIT Lisp Machine along with Tom Knight . He founded Lisp Machines, Inc. (which later became Gigamos Systems ), according to his vision of an ideal hacker-friendly computer company, as opposed to the more commercial ideals of Symbolics . EXTERNAL LINKS
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