I studied computer science at University College Dublin, where the four-year course covered a broad range of topics. We ...

Why it matters: JavaScript was officially unveiled in 1995 and now powers the overwhelming majority of the modern web, as well as countless server and desktop projects. The language is one of the core ...

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, ...

Abstract: Computer vision (CV) has advanced significantly with learning-based approaches, like deep neural networks, which have reached human-level accuracy. However, implementing CV algorithms on ...

Registering a domain can be done with just a few simple clicks in 2025, but it hasn’t always been that way. Rewind to March 1985 and the internet’s first .com domain name was registered: Symbolics.com ...

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 ...

Donald Trump appeared to have a lisp during an interview with Elon Musk. The livestream was plagued by technical issues. It started 40 minutes late and those who logged on were greeted by a message ...

Multiple people on social media believe they heard Donald Trump speaking with a lisp during his interview with Elon Musk. The former president spoke to the CEO of X, formerly Twitter, on Monday, in a ...

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Abstract: A prototype system called EKA, which is an attempt to apply sophisticated knowledge-engineering methods to power systems, is described. EKA is based on an object-oriented model and ...

ANTIQUE CODE SHOW Xerox's pioneering graphical Lisp workstation operating system is not only alive, well, and MIT-licensed, but running in the cloud as well as on modern OSes. Last week, the British ...