Tom Truscott is an American computer scientist best known for creating Usenet with Jim Ellis, when both were graduate students at Duke University.
[1] 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.
Truscott received the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award for Usenet.
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