Tom Truscott is an American computer scientist best known for creating

Usenet Usenet () is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979, and it wa ...

with Jim Ellis, when both were

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at Duke University. He is also a member of ACM,

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, and

Sigma Xi Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society () is a highly prestigious, non-profit honor society for scientists and engineers. Sigma Xi was founded at Cornell University by a junior faculty member and a small group of graduate students in 1886 ...

. One of his first endeavors into computers was writing a computer chess program and then later working on a global optimizer for C at

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. 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). Today, Truscott works on tools that analyze software as a software developer for the

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. Truscott received the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award for Usenet.

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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 TruscottTom Truscott Biography
Contains Full Biography of Tom Truscott Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Duke University alumni American computer scientists Usenet people {{Compu-scientist-stub

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