A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Senyo Simpson discusses how Rust's core values lead to "fearless programming." He shares front-line experience with ...

Lisp is one of those interesting computer languages that you either love or hate. But it has certainly stood the test of time. Of all the ancient languages that are still in practical use, only ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New languages emerge to fill niches that the existing ones don’t satisfy. combined the speed of C with the rapid development cycles of interpreted languages like Python. Rust came about because ...

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 ...