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John T. (Jack) Holloway,

an American computer scientist and LISP pioneer. As undergraduate at MIT, along with Richard Greenblatt, Tom Knight and Donald Eastlake et al., he worked for the Project MAC (Machine-Aided Cognition) on Maclisp and the ITS (Incompatible Timesharing System), the operating system on which MacLisp was developed. In 1981, Jack Holloway was one of the founders of the Lisp machine company Symbolics [1]. He founded Epigram after Symbolics [2].

Selected Publications#

• Donald Eastlake, Richard Greenblatt, Jack Holloway, Tom Knight, Stuart Nelson (1969). ITS 1.5 Reference Manual.
• Alan Bawden, Richard Greenblatt, Jack Holloway, Tom Knight, David Moon, Daniel Weinreb (1977). Lisp Machine Progress Report. AI memo 444
• John Moussouris, Jack Holloway, Richard Greenblatt (1979). CHEOPS: A Chess-orientated Processing System. Machine Intelligence 9, reprinted (1988) in Computer Chess Compendium
• Tom Knight, David Moon, Jack Holloway, Guy L. Steele (1979). CADR. AI memo 528 [4]
• Jack Holloway, Guy L. Steele, Gerald Jay Sussman, Alan Bell (1980). The SCHEME-79 Chip. AI memo 559
• Corey Ziegler Hunts, Julian Ziegler Hunts, Bill Gosper, Jack Holloway (2010). Minskys & Trinskys. 3rd edition, Minsky files by Bill Gosper [5] » Marvin Minsky

External Links#

• Jack Holloway | LinkedIn

References#

1. ↑ History of Symbolics lisp machines
2. ↑ User:Russell Noftsker from Wikipedia
3. ↑ John Moussouris, Jack Holloway, Richard Greenblatt (1979). CHEOPS: A Chess-orientated Processing System. Machine Intelligence 9, reprinted (1988) in Computer Chess Compendium
4. ↑ Retrocomputing - MIT CADR Lisp Machines
5. ↑ The Minsky Circle Algorithm – Random (Blog) by Neil Bickford, April 3, 2011

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