Tom Truscott

Tom Truscott
Born	Tom Truscott
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Duke University
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science

Tom Truscott is an American computer scientist known best for creating Usenet with Jim Ellis, when both were graduate students at Duke University. ^[1] He is also a member of ACM, IEEE, and Sigma Xi. One of his first endeavors concerning computers was writing a computer chess program and then later working on a global optimizer for C at Bell Labs. This computer chess program competed in multiple computer chess tournaments such as the Toronto chess tournament in 1977 (2nd place) and the Linz tournament in 1980 (3rd place). Presently, Truscott works on applications that analyze software as a software developer for a company named SAS Institute.

Truscott received the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award for Usenet.

Further reading

• Hauben, Michael; Hauben, Ronda; Truscott, Tom (April 27, 1997). Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet (Perspectives). Wiley-IEEE Computer Society P. ISBN   0-8186-7706-6.

References

1. Bonnett, Cara (May 17, 2010). "Duke to shut Usenet server, home to the first electronic newsgroups". Duke University.

External links

• The Evolution Of Usenet: The Poor Man's ARPANET Contains excerpts of Invitation to a General Access UNIX* Network, the original USENIX handout describing Usenet
• Interview with Tom Truscott
• Tom Truscott Biography Contains Full Biography of Tom Truscott