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Tom Truscott
Tom Truscott is an American computer scientist best known for creating Usenet with Jim Ellis, when both were graduate students at Duke University. 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. This computer chess program competed in multiple computer chess tournaments such as the Toronto chess tournament in 1977 (2nd place) and the Linz tournament in 1980 (3rd place
Jim Truscott
James “Jim” Francis Truscott OAM (born 26 May 1956) is a former Australian SAS officer, and now businessman.
Truscott was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Truscott Crisis Leaders. He is now Practice Manager. 
Early life and education.
Truscott was born 26 May 1956 to Meta and Alan Truscott, one of three children.
He was educated at Marist College Ashgrove in Brisbane. He has a Bachelor of Civil Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts (History and Politics) from