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Having spoken to someone who was there (Steve Omohundro who wrote StarLisp), the lack of floating point and extreme parallelism were actually a pain because eve
by eismcc 4y ago
Having spoken to someone who was there (Steve Omohundro who wrote StarLisp), the lack of floating point and extreme parallelism were actually a pain because everything had to be written from scratch. Steve gave me an example that they wrote over 200 algorithms in a new way, including parallel regex (as I recall). So while amazing hardware and ideas, there was a sense that it was along road to purse the actual goal of AI research.
- chris_st 4y agoOne of their mottos was, "Building a machine that will be proud of us."
- rbanffy 4y agoI remember reading that as a kid and how much it moved and inspired me. We’ll get there eventually.
- eismcc 4y agoYeah, same. I still have the scientific American mag issue that they talked about the CM-1 in
- blacksqr 4y agoI remember a rumor that they originally wanted to call the company "International Thinking Machines" as a dig at IBM, and the motto was going to be "When we say thinking, we mean business."