Tom Truscott

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Tom Truscott is an American computer scientist best known for helping create Usenet with Jim Ellis while they were graduate students at Duke University. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, and Sigma Xi. Early in his career, he wrote a computer chess program and later worked on a global optimizer for the C programming language at Bell Labs. His chess program did well in several tournaments, finishing second at the 1977 Toronto tournament and third at the 1980 Linz tournament. Today he works as a software developer at SAS Institute, focusing on applications that analyze software. He received the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award for Usenet.