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Peter Samson

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Alan Kotok

...the first course in programming that MIT offered to freshmen. Outside classes, Kotok, David Gross, Peter Samson, Robert A. Saunders and Robert A. Wagner, all friends from TMRC, reserved...

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Spacewar!

...200 hours of work to create the initial version. Additional features were developed by Dan Edwards, Peter Samson and Graetz. Steve Russell programmed the first version of Spacewar!

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

...railroad and trains models. The members were among the first hackers. Key figures of the club were Peter Samson, Alan Kotok, Jack Dennis, and Bob Saunders . The club was composed of two...

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

TJ-2

...(Type Justifying Program) was published by Peter Samson in May 1963 and is thought to be the first page layout program. Although it lacks page numbering, page headers and footers , TJ-2 is...

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

T-Square (software)

T-Square was an early drafting program written by Peter Samson assisted by Alan Kotok and possibly Robert A. Saunders while they were students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

Richard Greenblatt (programmer)

...as an undergraduate student, he found his way to MIT's famous Tech Model Railroad Club. At that time, Peter Samson had written a program in Fortran for the IBM 709 series machines, to...

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Peter Samson

...Massachusetts) is an American computer scientist, best known for creating pioneering computer software. Samson studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) between...

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Harmony Compiler

...was written by Peter Samson at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The compiler was designed to encode music for the PDP-1 and built on an earlier program Samson wrote for the...

Wikipedia | 3 months ago

Tech Model Railroad Club

...were among the first hackers. Some of the key early members of the club were Jack Dennis and Peter Samson, who compiled the 1959 Dictionary of the TMRC Language and who some say coined...

Wikipedia | 3 months ago

PDP-1

...s directly controlled by the processor (filtered with simple RC filters). Music was prepared via Peter Samson's Harmony Compiler, a sophisticated text-based program with some features...

Wikipedia | 3 months ago

Sketchpad

...spot to display. Bolt, Beranek and Newman had a "similar program" and T-Square was developed by Peter Samson and one or more fellow MIT students in 1962, both for the PDP-1. In 1963...

Wikipedia | 8 months ago

Expensive Planetarium

...is the star display written by Peter Samson for Spacewar!, one of the first interactive computer games. Conceived and written by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students...