Tom Truscott
Computer Scientist
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Who is Tom Truscott?
Tom Truscott is a computer scientist best known for creating Usenet with Jim Ellis, when both were graduate students at Duke University. He is also a member of ACM, IEEE, and Sigma Xi. One of his first endeavors into computers was writing a computer chess program and then later working on a global optimizer for C at Bell Labs. Today, Truscott works on tools that analyze software as a software developer for the SAS Institute.
Truscott received the Usenix Life Time Achievement Award for Usenet.
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- Duke University
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on July 23, 2013
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