A.S. Douglas

A.S. Douglas

Professor Alexander "Sandy" Shafto Douglas CBE (21 May 1921 – 29 April 2010) was a British professor of computer science, credited with creating the first graphical Computer game OXO (also known as Noughts and Crosses) a tic-tac-toe computer game in 1952 on the EDSAC computer at University of Cambridge.

Douglas died in sleep on 29 April 2010 from pneumonia.

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