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an American computer scientist, programmer and manager. A graduate in mathematics from [|New York University], Belsky had received a master's degree from Harvard in 1951. He was hired by IBM in 1954, as an experienced programmer, at the [|701]-equipped [|Service Bureau], [|New York]. Along with Alex Bernstein, Michael de V. Roberts and Timothy Arbuckle, Belsky was member of the team developing the chess playing program for the IBM 704.
 * Martin A. (Marty) Belsky**,

Martin Belsky later played a key role in the technical decisions that shaped [|OS/360], and in the System/370 era a key management and technical role in the development of the [|virtual storage] operating system. Belsky left IBM for the [|Burroughs Corporation] in 1982. He claimed to have invented the "alpha/beta" terminology concerning the [|Software release life cycle].

=Publications=
 * Alex Bernstein, Michael de V. Roberts, Timothy Arbuckle, Martin Belsky (**1958**). //[|A chess playing program for the IBM 704]//. Proceedings of the 1958 Western Joint Computer Conference, [|pdf]

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