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was an American computer scientist, known for his participation in the [|Manhattan Project] and the [|Fermi–Pasta–Ulam experiment]. In 1952, at Los Alamos National Laboratory, working under [|Nicholas Metropolis] on the [|MANIAC I], John Pasta aided in the construction of an early computer that specialized in calculations around weapons design. According to John McCarthy's quote, Pasta is considered as early chess programmer, co-developing the MANIAC I chess program. John Pasta was head of the department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1964 to 1970. || toc =Quote= Quote by John McCarthy from //Human-Level AI is harder than it seemed in 1955// : include page="Quote McCarthy" =See also=
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 * [[image:JohnPasta.JPG width="173" height="204" link="http://computer.org/computer-pioneers/pasta.html"]] ||~  || **John R. Pasta**, (1918 – June 5, 1981)
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 * [|John Pasta from Wikipedia]
 * [|Computer Pioneers - John R. Pasta] - IEEE Computer Society

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