On the scale of awesomeness, writing an operating system ranks near the top for software hackers and ranks just below writing a whole new language. [Lukas F. Hartmann] is reaching for the epic status ...

Think Lisp is a dead language? Not according to Gábor Melis, who was just crowned the winner of the PlanetWars Google AI challenge. His bot "bocsimacko" dominated a field of over 4600 contestants, but ...

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 ...

Researchers have been producing computer models of biological systems for almost as long as there have been computers. But these efforts have picked up in recent years as computing power has increased ...

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, ...

The MakerLisp Embedded Lisp Machine is targeted at makers and developers of embedded systems for use at the edge of the IoT. Thus, you can only imagine my surprise and delight to be introduced to ...

The artificial intelligence (AI) community is mourning the death of John McCarthy, the US scientist who invented the LISP computer language at the heart of this field of study. McCarthy's death, at ...

John McCarthy, best known for coining the term artificial intelligence and inventing the programming language Lisp, died on Oct. 23. He was 84 years old. His death was announced by Stanford University ...

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 ...