Stewart Nelson
Stewart Nelson is an American mathematician and programmer from The Bronx who co-founded Systems Concepts.
From a young age, Nelson was tinkering with electronics, aided and abetted by his father who was a physicist that had become an engineer. Nelson enrolled at MIT in 1963 and quickly became known for hooking up the AI Lab's PDP-1 (and later the PDP-6) to the telephone network, making him one of the first phreakers. Nelson later accomplished other feats like hardwiring additional instructions into the PDP-1. Nelson was hired by Ed Fredkin's Information International Inc. at the urging of Marvin Minsky to work on PDP-7 programs at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.[1]
Nelson was known as a brilliant software programmer. He was influential in LISP, the assembly instructions for the Digital Equipment Corporation PDP, and a number of other systems. [2]
The group of young hackers was known for working on systems after hours. One night, Nelson and others decided to rewire MIT’s PDP-1 as a prank. Later, Margaret Hamilton tried to use the DEC-supplied DECAL assembler on the machine and it crashed repeatedly.
References
- ^ http://web.mit.edu/quentin/Documents/Class%20Notes/STS.001/. Retrieved September 24, 2019.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Levy, Steven (1984). "Chapter 5: The Midnight Computer Wiring Society". Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Dell Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN 0-440-13405-6.
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