Greenblatt, Richard oral history
Richard Greenblatt, an MIT programmer and accomplished chess player developed the MacHack VI program for the DEC PDP-6 computer, which played at a level far above its predecessors. In 1967 it was the first computer to play against a person in a chess tournament and earned a rating of 1400, the level of a good high-school player.
Item Details
- Date
- 2005-01-12 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102657935
- Other identifying number
- OHP 123 (OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER)
- Organization
- Computer History Museum
- People
- Gardner Hendrie (Videographer)
Gardner Hendrie (Interviewer)
Richard Greenblatt (Interviewee) - Category
- Transcript
- Extent
- 55 p.
- Place of publication
- North America/USA/MA/Boston
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X3056.2005
- Subject
- MIT
- Archive collection
- CHM Oral History collection
- Archive hierarchy
- Oral History collection