Robert Alan Saunders was an American computer scientist, most famous for his involvement with Spacewar.
Saunders joined the Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) led by Alan Kotok, Peter Samson, and himself.
[1] From 1957–61, Robert Saunders worked with other undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where they were allowed by Jack Dennis to develop programs for the then TX-0 experimental computer on permanent loan from Lincoln Laboratory.
After urging Russell to start the game for some time, the group had the first version running by early 1962, with some assistance from then DEC employee Alan Kotok.
[8] [9] After his years at MIT, Saunders spent most of his professional career at Hewlett-Packard, working on computer operating systems.