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[[FILE:JohnPoduskaYT.jpg|border|right|thumb|200px|link=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC88aB6A-z4YnxzmbmAp2hpA| John Poduska <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC88aB6A-z4YnxzmbmAp2hpA John Poduska - YouTube]</ref> ]]

'''John William Poduska Jr.''',<br/>
an American computer scientist, and as former computer chess programmer author of the chess program [[Chaturanga]], which played the [[ACM 1981]] <ref>[http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=doc-431614f6ce737 The Twelfth ACM's North American Computer Chess Championship] from [[The Computer History Museum]]</ref> and [[ACM 1982]] <ref>[http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/%7Ekopec/Publications/Publications/O_36_C.pdf pdf] from [[Danny Kopec]] covers [[ACM 1982]]</ref>.
John Poduska Jr. is son of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Poduska John William Poduska, Sr.], a technological entrepreneur, independent business consultant and in 1979 the founder of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Computer Apollo Computer], which was one of the first creators of graphical [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workstation workstations] in the 1980s <ref>[https://computingnow.computer.org/web/awards/mcdowell-john-poduska John W. Poduska, Sr.], [[IEEE|IEEE Computer Society Awards]]</ref>.
Therefore [[Chaturanga]] was obligated to run on John Poduska's father's hardware.

=External Links=
* [https://www.facebook.com/john.poduska John Poduska from Facebook]
* [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC88aB6A-z4YnxzmbmAp2hpA John Poduska - YouTube]

=References=
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