Born in
Hartford, Connecticut, He invented the
continuation to solve a double recursion problem for one of the users of his Lisp implementation. In 1962, Russell created and designed
Spacewar!, with the fellow members of the
Tech Model Railroad Club at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), working on a
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
PDP-1 minicomputer.
Spacewar! is widely considered to be the first digital video game and served as a foundation for the entire video game industry. He later served as an executive of
Computer Center Corporation (nicknamed C-Cubed), a small time-sharing company in
Washington state. In 1968, he mentored
Bill Gates and
Paul Allen on the use of the DEC
PDP-10 mainframe, while they were part of the programming group of
Lakeside School. ==See also==