Posted on October 26, 2011, 4:16 pm, by xp, under
Programming.
Another week, another great mind has left. John McCarthy, the inventor of the LISP programming language, and the expert who coined the term artificial intelligence in 1955, has passed away yesterday. His web site is still online. Besides the C programming language, LISP (and its other variance Scheme) and Prolog were the languages we used [...]
Posted on June 21, 2010, 7:19 pm, by xp, under
Soliloquy.
This book was written in the 1940s through the 1950s, and after more than half a century, it is still one the best science fictions you could find around, and has spawned a whole new genre of literature on highly capable robots. The book consisted of a series of short stories, told through the reminiscences of [...]