Richard Greenblatt (programmer)

Richard D. Greenblatt
Richard Greenblatt in 2009
Born	(1944-12-25) December 25, 1944 (age 79) Portland, Oregon, United States
Education	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Known for	Mac Hack chess computer Maclisp Transposition table Incompatible Timesharing System
Relatives	Aliza Greenblatt (paternal grandmother) Marjorie Guthrie (aunt)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer programming
Institutions	MIT Lisp Machines

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.