Alick Glennie

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Alick Edwards Glennie (1925-2003) was a British computer scientist, most famous for having developed Autocode, which many people regard as the first ever computer compiler.^[1] Glennie worked with Alan Turing on several projects, including the Manchester Mark 1. He also played the first ever game of computer chess, although it was played against a program not capable of being run on the computers of the day: the chess program was devised by Alan Turing, and operated with pen and paper by Turing^{[citation needed]}. The match took several weeks to complete. Alick came out the victor.

External links

A move by move version of Turing and Glennie's chess game

References

↑ Knuth, Donald E.; Pardo, Luis Trabb, "Early development of programming languages", Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology (Marcel Dekker) 7: 419–493

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Name	Glennie, Alick
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Date of birth	1925
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Date of death	2003
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