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2003/12/26

Higher resolution CADR images

John Wiseman asked for some higher resolution images of the CADR Lisp machine. I created a thumbnail gallery and some comments.

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2003/10/31

Turn Open Genera into an Open Source project!

On the last day of the ILC03 I participated in a very interesting discussion. A small group of conference attendees tried to persuade Howard Shrobe to make Open Genera available as open source.

At least three people argued, that it shouldn't be to difficult to write an emulator similar to the one that was done for the DEC Alpha systems. The vision of having Open Genera running on a AMD Opteron platform excited all participants. Is it just a dream? I don't think so. (all images copyright Ralph Moeller)

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Ex Symbolics user for 5+ years - posted by Tim Chippington Derrick - 2004/9/16 10:10:54
Would love to see an open version of Genera. It is *still* far ahead of just about any other siftware environment. The likes of Eclipse for Java are starting to see some of the things we took for granted 15 years ago! Open it up and show the world how it could be done. I can't believe that there is much commercial value left in Genera, and even that is going to fade as the rest of the world gradually re-invents what Genera did. Go for broke and open it up.

2003/10/23

Linj: Translating Lisp Into Java

I almost forgot to report on Linj. When Antonio Leitao presented this Ueber-Code-Generator at ILC03 I almost fainted! If you're forced to write Java, for whatever reason, Linj is the way to go. Code will be available soon. He promised.

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2003/10/22

Visiting the CADR shrine

After ILC03 I went to see an old friend in Boston. If you're visiting Boston, then the CADR Lisp machine, also known as the Greenblatt machine, is a must see.

It's on display at the MIT museum. Of course the Arthur Ganson exhibition at MIT museum is worth a visit too. His Machine with Concrete is mind blowing:

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2003/10/15

Robots and Reasoning

Kenny Tilton gave a very entertaining talk about his RoboCup client.

Alberto Rivera talked about a Lisp system that will analyze genome data.

Oliver Obst talked about the open source 3D Robocup Simulation League.

Taiichi Yuasa gave a spectacular talk about Lego Lisp. A tiny Lisp system that runs on Lego Mindstorm robots. Amazing!

Manuela Veloso from CMU talked about their RoboCup technology. They're able to do cross field kicks and get emergent team behaviour.

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2003/10/14

9 axioms create a language

Paul Graham talked about ARC. Showing some code examples on his typical typewritten slides. He got cross examined by Sussman, John L. and John McCarthy. The language spec is written in ARC. He got himself into trouble when he proclaimed that the source code should be selfdocumenting.

Following Schwartz, J.T talked about SETL, which he invented.

Right now Greg Chaitin is talking and shouting:

"I'm interested in the conceptual complexity of a program. Lisp ist my Turing machine."

"Lisp is a better expression of recursive function theory than what the mathematicians usually use."

"The real thing is not the theory, which has been around for quite some time, but that you can now actually run it as a program."

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2003/10/13