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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Think Lisp is a dead language? Not according to Gábor Melis, who was just crowned the winner of the PlanetWars Google AI challenge. His bot "bocsimacko" dominated a field of over 4600 contestants, but ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just one week after Steve Jobs succumbed to cancer, mourners took to social networks and message boards to note the passing of computer scientist Dennis Ritchie, an event that was largely overlooked ...

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 ...

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 ...