John McCarthy
ABSTRACT
LISP (for LISt Processor) is a programming system for the IBM 704 being developed by the Artificial Intelligence Group at MIT. We are developing it in order to program the Advice Taker which is to be a system for instructing a machine in a combination of declarative and imperative sentences.
- LISP: a programming system for symbolic manipulations
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