Richard Greenblatt (programmer)

Richard D. Greenblatt
Color photograph of older Caucasian man with grey hair wearing blue flannel shirt and glasses.
Richard Greenblatt in 2009
Born (1944-12-25) December 25, 1944 (age 79)
Portland, Oregon, United States
EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Known for
RelativesAliza Greenblatt (paternal grandmother)
Marjorie Guthrie (aunt)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer programming
Institutions

Richard D. Greenblatt (born December 25, 1944) is an American computer programmer. Along with Bill Gosper, he may be considered to have founded the hacker community,[1] and holds a place of distinction in the communities of the programming language Lisp and of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

  1. ^ Levy, Steven (1984). Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-51087-1.)