LISP started life in 1958, when mathematician and computer scientist John McCarthy published a paper called “Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I ...

Lisp (historically, LISP) is a family of computer programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized Polish prefix notation. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the ...

Now, researchers have developed a programming language, little b, that is customized for creating extensible models of biological systems. A paper describing little b will appear in the Royal ...

In fact, a golden era in programming language design jump started, evolving in lockstep with dramatic advances in computer hardware. In the 1960s, we had languages like ALGOL, LISP and BASIC.

Related: Top 10 most famous computer programmers of all time. Lisp. Lisp is a programming language that was created in the late 1950s, making it one of the oldest programming languages still in ...

AutoCAD is drafting and design software used to create everything from buildings to households items. But what if its connection to the 1960-founded LISP programming language could help engineers ...

John McCarthy, the creator of the Lisp programming language and a pioneer in artificial intelligence, has died. He was 84. McCarthy died Monday, Stanford University's School of Engineering ...