Editing Richard Greenblatt (programmer) (section)

{{short description|American computer programmer (born 1944)}}
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| birth_place               = [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]], [[Oregon]], United States
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| relatives = [[Aliza Greenblatt]] (paternal grandmother)<br>[[Marjorie Guthrie]] (aunt)
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*MIT
*[[Lisp Machines]]}}
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| education                 = [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT)
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*[[Maclisp]]
*[[Transposition table]]
*[[Incompatible Timesharing System]]}}
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'''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 (programmer subculture)|hacker]] community,<ref name="Hackers">{{cite book |last=Levy |first=Steven |author-link=Steven Levy |url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/ |title=Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution |date=1984 |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=0-262-51087-1 |location=Massachusetts}}</ref> and holds a place of distinction in the [[Community of practice|communities]] of the programming language [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]] and of the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) [[MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|Artificial Intelligence Laboratory]].