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Date of Birth
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MIT Enrollment
Greenblatt enrolls at MIT in the Fall of 1962. -
The Tech Model Railroad Club
Greenblatt joins the Tech Model Railroad Club in his second term at MIT -
Writes the first FORTRAN for PDP-1
Greenblatt decides to write a program that would enable you to write in FORTRAN. It allowed you to write and compile code into machine language. -
Flunk's out of MIT
After Greenblatt 'zorched' his classes he exits from MIT. -
MacLISP
Although no longer attending MIT, Richard did not give up programming and began with some work on the LISP Compiler which was written for the PDP-1. Richard altered it to work for the PDP-6. -
The MacHack
Having a love for Chess, Richard was disappointed in the creation of the Kotok Program thinking it was 'crap' so he decided on creating his own AI for competing in Chess Matches. -
MacHack VI Competing
In February 1967, the MacHack program competers in a U.S. Chess Federation Tournament. It draws one game and loses four. “Machack VI.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., https://www.britannica.com/topic/MacHack-VI. -
Charles Adam Associates
After no longer being in school, continuing his work as a hacker Richard takes a position at the firm Charles Adam Associates. -
Hired as Fulltime Hacker
Noftsker Officially hires Greenblatt, Nelson and Gosper as full-time hackers. He begins work at AI Lab. -
Agreement on Time-Sharing
While working at AI Lab, Fredkin had worked on Greenblatt for weeks and Richard finally agreed that time sharing should be implemented on the PDP-6.
This allowed for a push in an experiment with time sharing, which had the hacker ethic in its soul. -
Bobby Fischer Plays MacHack
In 1977 the MacHack played three games against the world chess champion Bobby Fischer. -
Greenblatt's LISP machine
In his mid 30's Greenblatt decides that he wants an all out hacking computer. He realizes that the LISP Machine was an ultimately flexible world-builder, the embodiment of the hacker. -
Founding of Symbolics
Given a year to establish his own company, the backers of the LISP machine Incorporation formed the heavily capitalized company called Symbolics. -
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
The book Hackers: Heoes of the Computer Revolution is published recognizing the accomplishments and life of Richard Greenblatt as a Hacker's hacker -
Death of LISP Machine Era
With the rapid growth of the microprocessor the LISP machine era had ended.