Artificial Intelligence has come a long way and achieved significant milestones over the years. The history of AI and machine learning cannot be discussed without mentioning Shakey the Robot. Created ...

The inspiration for the Logic Theorist was sparked by various moments of pure scientific epiphany between the three collaborators, notably Herbert Simon, Allen Newell, and to a lesser degree Cliff ...

What if you could hold the nostalgia of retro computing in the palm of your hand, but with the power and flexibility of modern technology? Enter the PicoCalc—a compact, modular computer that bridges ...

STELLA is a strongly typed, object-oriented, Lisp-like language, designed to facilitate symbolic programming tasks in artificial intelligence applications. STELLA preserves those features of Common ...

Designed by Hartmut Graw, the LispDeck is a Handheld Lisp computer built around the Teensy 4.1 microcontroller for Lisp programming on the go. It features a dual-screen setup with a 5-inch touchscreen ...

How an ice cream innovator in Somerville influenced Lisp pioneers at the MIT AI Lab­—and made a lasting mark on programming. In the early 1970s, a team of engineers at MIT’s AI Lab launched a ...

Researchers discovered long-lost computer code and used it to resurrect the early chatbot ELIZA.

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...

Common Lisp is a general-purpose programming language in the Lisp language family. Its syntax is defined on top of s-expressions, however it can be extended through the use of reader macros. It ...

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