Tom+Truscott

an American computer scientist, best known for creating the [|Usenet] with [|Jim Ellis]. As graduate student at the Duke University in the 70s, Truscott was early Checkers and chess programmer. The //Duke program// was a Checkers player written along with his fellow Eric Jensen and advisor Alan Biermann, which defeated Samuel's program in a 2-game match. Along with Eric Jensen and Bruce Wright, Tom Truscott wrote the chess program Duchess, which competed at ACM North American Computer Chess Championships from 1974 to 1979 and 1981, and the 2nd and 3rd World Computer Chess Championship in Toronto 1977 and Linz 1980. Tom Truscott now works for SAS, an analytics software company. || toc =Photos= Dave Slate, David Levy, Claude Shannon, Ken Thompson, Betty Shannon, Tom Truscott || =Quotes= From [|Michael] and Ronda Hauben's netbook //[|Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet]// :
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 * [[image:Truscott.jpg link="http://www.heimo.de/jpool/articles/Geschichte.html"]] ||~  || **Thomas R. (Tom) Truscott**,
 * Tom Truscott ||~  ||^   ||
 * [[image:Chaos_vs_Duchess.ACM_1979.jpg link="http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl-430b9bbe2be7f" width="640"]] ||
 * CHAOS vs. Duchess at the ACM 1979 David Cahlander, William Toikka, Fred Swartz and Tom Truscott ||
 * [[image:Chess_Pioneers_Mittman_Newborn_Marsland_Slate_Levy_Shannon_Thompson_Truscott.c1980.102665753.lg.jpg link="http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102665753" width="640"]] ||
 * Chess pioneers in [|Sacher Hotel Vienna], Austria 1980: Ben Mittman, Monty Newborn, Tony Marsland,
 * Chess pioneers in [|Sacher Hotel Vienna], Austria 1980: Ben Mittman, Monty Newborn, Tony Marsland,

=Publications=
 * Tom Truscott (**1978**). //Computer-Checkers//. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 9, pp. 86
 * [|Michael Hauben], Ronda Hauben (**1997**). //[|Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet].// [|Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press], ISBN: 978-0-8186-7706-9

=Usenet Posts=
 * [|compact representation of chess positions] by Tom Truscott, net.chess, January 7, 1982 » Zobrist Hashing

=External Links=
 * [|Tom Truscott from Wikipedia]
 * [|List of Duke University people from Wikipedia]
 * [|Tom Truscott's ICGA Tournaments]
 * [|Newsdemon - Tom Truscott Biography]

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