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Just one week after Steve Jobs succumbed to cancer, mourners took to social networks and message boards to note the passing of computer scientist Dennis Ritchie, an event that was largely overlooked ...

Way back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a few very awesome people around MIT were working on Lisp machines. These computers were designed specifically to run Lisp as their main programming ...

John McCarthy, creator of the Lisp programming language and pioneer in utility computing—the forerunner of today’s cloud computing—died Sunday in Stanford, California. He was 84. AI master: John ...

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 ...

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Pictured above is the Lisperati 1000 portable workstation, designed to provide an ultra compact, portable, Lisp programming system, powered by the recently launched Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller.

Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on tech since learning BASIC in the late '70s. When not cleaning up after his daughter and son, Steven can be found pedaling around ...

Bel is interesting, not least because it highlights the enduring and improbable longevity of one of the earliest high-level programming languages. That’s no small feat, especially given the ...