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Stephen Russell (born 1937), also nicknamed "Slug", is an American computer scientist most famous for creating Spacewar!, well known for being the first widely distributed video game. Biography [ edit ]
Ranger tab. Steven Dane Russell (born May 25, 1963) is President and CEO of JAARS, Inc. He is a retired American soldier and former politician. He served in the United States House of Representatives for Oklahoma's 5th congressional district from 2015 to 2019, after serving in the Oklahoma Senate from 2009 to 2013.
Jun 26, 2024 · Steve Russell went on to specialize in tools for artificial intelligence research at Stanford University and is currently working at Nohau, a Silicon Valley company that makes computer system debugging tools.
Spacewar! is a space combat video game developed in 1962 by Steve Russell in collaboration with Martin Graetz, Wayne Wiitanen, Bob Saunders, Steve Piner, and others. It was written for the newly installed DEC PDP-1 minicomputer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mar 5, 2019 · Steve Russell - Inventing of Spacewar. It was in 1962 when a young computer programmer from MIT named Steve Russell, fueled with inspiration from the writings of E. E. "Doc" Smith, led the team that created the first popular computer game. Starwar was almost the first computer game ever written.
Jul 1, 2013 · Steve Russell was the main creator of Space War! at MIT in 1961 — the project was one of the earliest digital video games. He tells Robert Siegel how he came up with the idea of battling ...
Feb 4, 2013 · Steve Russell appears remotely from the Computer History Museum, beside the last working PDP-1. Computers were not popular in 1961. The state-of-the-art at the time was the PDP-1, a $120,000...
Steve Russell about the PDP-1. Born: 1937, Hartford, Connecticut. Steve Russell’s interest in computers began when his uncle, a Harvard professor, arranged a tour of the Harvard Mark I computer. Russell later attended Dartmouth College as a math major and after college turned to the new field of computers.
At the Computer History Museum's Revolution exhibit, Steve Russell shows an actual version of the video game Spacewar! that he created in 1961. ...more.
Though the graphical capabilities of the PDP-1 had serious applications, it was the game Spacewar! that has made the PDP-1 famous. Spacewar! was initially conceived by Steve Russell, Martin Graetz and Wayne Wiitanen in 1961, and largely inspired by the pulp science fiction novels of E. E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman series.
