The AI Memos are a series of influential

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. Noteworthy memos in the series include: * AI Memo 39, "The New Compiler", describing the first implementation of a self-hosting compiler (for LISP 1.5) * AI Memo 41, "A Chess Playing Program", describing Kotok-McCarthy, the first computer program to play

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convincingly * AI Memo 239 (1972), also known as

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s and algorithms * Sussman and Steele's Lambda Papers: ** AI Memo 349 (1975), "Scheme: An Interpreter for Extended Lambda Calculus" ** AI Memo 353 (1976), "Lambda: The Ultimate Imperative" ** AI Memo 379 (1976), "Lambda: The Ultimate Declarative" ** AI Memo 443 (1977), "Debunking the 'Expensive Procedure Call' Myth, or, Procedure Call Implementations Considered Harmful, or, Lambda: The Ultimate GOTO" ** AI Memo 453 (1978), "The Art of the Interpreter of, the Modularity Complex (Parts Zero, One, and Two)" ** AI Technical Report 474 (1978), "RABBIT: A Compiler for SCHEME" ** AI Memo 514 (1979), "Design of LISP-based Processors, or SCHEME: A Dielectric LISP, or Finite Memories Considered Harmful, or LAMBDA: The Ultimate Opcode"

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AI Memos (1959–2004)
collection at DSpace at MIT
AI Series
historical archive at the CSAIL Publications and Digital Archive Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial intelligence papers History of artificial intelligence Memoranda {{compu-AI-stub