LISP was once a language of choice for computer science research, specifically in the area of artificial intelligence. And so a few LISP startups were created in the 1980s with great optimism, the ...
How an ice cream innovator in Somerville influenced Lisp pioneers at the MIT AI Lab­â€”and made a lasting mark on programming. In the early 1970s, a team of engineers at MIT’s AI Lab launched a ...
During the AI research boom of the 1970s, the LISP language – from LISt Processor – saw a major surge in use and development, including many dialects being developed. One of these dialects was Scheme, ...