Movatterモバイル変換

[0]ホーム
URL:

Jump to content
WikipediaThe Free Encyclopedia
Search

Steve Russell (computer scientist)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
American computer scientist

Steve Russell
Russell in 2011
Born
Stephen Russell

1937 (age 88–89)[1]
Other namesSlug
Alma materDartmouth College
Known forSpacewar!
Lisp
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsMIT
Spacewar! on theComputer History Museum'sPDP-1, 2007

Stephen Russell (born 1937),[1] also nicknamed "Slug",[1] is an Americancomputer scientist most famous for creatingSpacewar!, well known for being the first widely distributedvideo game.

Biography

[edit]

Born inHartford, Connecticut,[1] Russell attendedDartmouth College inHanover, New Hampshire, from 1954 to 1958.

Russell wrote the first two implementations of the programming languageLisp for theIBM 704 mainframe computer. It was Russell who realized that the concept ofuniversal functions could be applied to the language. By implementing the Lisp universal evaluator in a lower-level language, it became possible to create the Lispinterpreter; prior development work on the language had focused oncompiling the language.[2] He invented thecontinuation to solve a double recursion problem for one of the users of his Lisp implementation.[3]

In 1962, Russell created and designedSpacewar!, with the fellow members of theTech Model Railroad Club at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), working on aDigital Equipment Corporation (DEC)PDP-1 minicomputer.[4][5][6]Spacewar! is widely considered to be the first digital video game[7][8] and served as a foundation for the entire video game industry.[9]

He later served as an executive ofComputer Center Corporation (nicknamed C-Cubed), a small time-sharing company inWashington state. In 1968, he mentoredBill Gates andPaul Allen on the use of the DECPDP-10 mainframe, while they were part of the programming group ofLakeside School.[10][11]

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^abcd"Steve "Slug" Russell".PDP-1 Restoration Project. Computer History Museum. RetrievedDecember 31, 2015.
  2. ^McCarthy, John (August 12, 1979)."The implementation of Lisp".History of Lisp. RetrievedDecember 31, 2015.
  3. ^"Steve "Slug" Russell".Computer History. Archived from the original on January 5, 2023. RetrievedAugust 9, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ^Markoff, John (February 28, 2002)."A Long Time Ago, in a Lab Far Away…".The New York Times. RetrievedApril 27, 2009.
  5. ^"Spacewar!".PDP-1 Restoration Project. Computer History Museum. RetrievedNovember 22, 2020.
  6. ^"Steve Russell".Computer History Museum. RetrievedNovember 22, 2020.
  7. ^"Spacewar! Video Games Blast Off".Museum of the Moving Image. Entertainment Software Association. March 3, 2013. Archived fromthe original on August 29, 2021. RetrievedNovember 22, 2020.
  8. ^"The Great Videogame Swindle?".Next Generation. No. 23.Imagine Media. November 1996. pp. 64–66.
  9. ^"Spacewar! – It Came from MIT".The Dot Eaters. RetrievedJuly 10, 2023.
  10. ^Isaacson, Walter (2014).The Innovators. Simon & Schuster UK. pp. Chapter 9.ISBN 978-1-47113-879-9.
  11. ^Allen, Paul (2011).Idea Man. Penguin Group. pp. Chapters 3–4.

External links

[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related toSteve Russell.
Features
Object systems
Implementations
Standardized
Common
Lisp
Scheme
ISLISP
Unstandardized
Logo
POP
Operating system
Hardware
Community
of practice
Technical standards
Education
Books
Curriculum
Organizations
Business
Education
People
Common
Lisp
Scheme
Logo
POP
Analog and lightbulb games
Early chess programs
Early mainframe games
First arcade games
People
International
National
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steve_Russell_(computer_scientist)&oldid=1325752601"
Categories:
Hidden categories:
[8]ページ先頭
©2009-2026 Movatter.jp