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 ...

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 ...

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. This article dives into the happens-before semantics of Go channels, explaining how they relate to memory ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Rich Hickey created Clojure he did so because he wanted a Lisp language that used immutable data structures by default, that was designed with concurrency in mind, and was compatible with an ...

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 ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Lisp, an artificial intelligence language dating back to the 1960's, will make a re-appearance in EDA if a startup called Simantix Systems has its way. Simantix, a five-person ...

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 ...