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{{short description|British professor of computer science}}
{{Infobox scientist
|name = Sandy Douglas
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|thesis_year = 1954
|thesis_url = http://hooke.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/bib_seek.cgi?cat=man&bib=27684
|known_for = [[OXO (video game)|OXO]]
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'''Alexander Shafto''' "'''Sandy'''" '''Douglas''' [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (21 May 1921 – 29 April 2010) was a British professor of [[computer science]], credited with creating the first graphical computer game, [[OXO (video game)|OXO]], a version of [[
==Biography==
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===Early life===
Douglas was born on 21 May 1921 in [[London]]. At age eight, his family moved to [[Cromwell Road]], near what would become the London Air Terminal.
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===Cambridge===
Douglas attended the [[University of Cambridge]] in 1950. In 1952, while working towards earning his PhD, he wrote a [[thesis]] which focused on [[human-computer interaction]]s and he needed an example to prove his theories. At that time, Cambridge was home to the second [[stored-program computer]], the [[EDSAC]] or Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (the first being [[Manchester University]]'s "[[Manchester Baby|Baby]]", which ran its first program on 21 June 1948). This gave Douglas the opportunity to prove his findings by programming the code for a simple game where a player can compete against the computer
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*[http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~edsac/ A simulator of EDSAC Computer on the website of University of Warwick, England.]
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