Richard Greenblatt

Richard Greenblatt is a pioneering American computer programmer and hacker who made significant contributions to the development of artificial intelligence and computer gaming in the 1960s and 1970s. As a key figure in the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Greenblatt's work on the MacLisp programming language and the development of the chess program Mac Hack influenced a generation of computer scientists and programmers, shaping the evolution of computer science research and informing the development of modern AI and gaming technologies.