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Recursive functions of symbolic expressions and their computation by machine, Part I
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A programming system called LISP (for LISt Processor) has been developed for the IBM 704 computer by the Artificial Intelligence group at M.I.T. The system was designed to facilitate experiments with a proposed system called the Advice Taker, whereby a machine could be instructed to handle declarative
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- Authors
- McCarthy, J.
- Venue
- Communications of the ACM
- Published
- 1960-04
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 184-195
- ISSN
- 0001-0782 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7317
- OpenAlex
- W2045255985
- Cited by
- 1,387
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 17.73
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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