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Macsyma: A Personal History
- cpr 17y agoI had the privilege of working for Joel in the late 70's (he was the EECS department chair at the time) sysadmin'ing their student DEC-20 and Lisp Machines. A delightful fellow.
- wglb 17y agoAbsolutely fascinating paper about one of the more interesting pieces of software created, and the people involved with it. Extends from early days of LISP (back then) through to how culture might influence AI approaches.
- gwern 17y agoWhat an incredibly horrible interface that is. Here's something which is readable: http://esd.mit.edu/Faculty_Pages/moses/Macsyma.pdf http://esd.mit.edu/Faculty_Pages/moses/Macsyma.pdf