Steve Russell
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| Born | 1937 |
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| Residence |  U.S. |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College |
| Known for | Spacewar! |
Steve "Slug" Russell is a programmer and computer scientist most famous for creating Spacewar!, one of the earliest videogames, in 1961 with the fellow members of the Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT working on a DEC Digital PDP-1.[1] While there is some debate over priority regarding the concept of computer-based games in general, Spacewar! was unquestionably the first to gain widespread recognition, and is generally recognized as the first of the "shoot-'em' up" genre.
Steve Russell wrote the first two implementations of Lisp for the IBM 704. It was Russell who realized that the concept of universal functions could be applied to the language; by implementing the Lisp universal evaluator in a lower-level language, it became possible to create the Lisp interpreter (previous development work on the language had focused on compiling the language). He invented the continuation to solve a double recursion problem for one of the users of his Lisp implementation.
Steve Russell was educated at Dartmouth College from 1954 to 1958.
References
- ^ Markoff, John (2002-02-28). "A Long Time Ago, in a Lab Far Away . . .". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/28/technology/a-long-time-ago-in-a-lab-far-away.html. Retrieved on 2009-04-27.
External links
- The Dot Eaters entry on Russell and the development of Spacewar
See also
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