If Betty Lisp and Harry AI mate, will they have fertile children? What they really read at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab and other Common Lisp, AutoLisp, Clasp, Scheme bed-time stories. (For computer wizards only). Common Lisp, AutoLisp, Clasp, Scheme,

If Betty Lisp and Harry AI mate, will they have fertile children? What they really read at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab and other Common Lisp, AutoLisp, Clasp, Scheme bed-time stories. (For computer wizards only).

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For MIT -AI Lab types who are not at MIT....

The wise ones, and the AI Wizards, have said: "At MIT, essentially all AI programming is done in Common Lisp. If you don't know it, learn it. Learning a language is not learning to program, however; and AI programming involves some techniques quite different from those used for systems programming or for other applications. You can start by reading Abelson and Sussman's Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs and doing some of the exercises. That book isn't about AI programming per se, but it teaches some of the same techniques. Then read the third edition of Winston and Horn's Lisp book; it's got a lot of neat AI programs in it. Ultimately, though, programming, not reading, is the best way to learn to program."

If you are serious --- start right now. you don't have to wait until you're a grad student at the AI lab

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman / 1996

Lisp: Patrick Henry Winston, Berthold Klaus Paul Horn / 1988

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman / Hardcover / Published 1996

Abelson and Sussman's classic Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs teaches readers how to program by employing the tools of abstraction and modularity. The authors' central philosophy is that programming is the task of breaking large problems into small ones. The book spends a great deal of time considering both this decomposition and the process of knitting the smaller pieces back together.

The authors employ this philosophy in their writing technique. The text asks the broad question "What is programming?" Having come to the conclusion that programming consists of procedures and data, the authors set off to explore the related questions of "What is data?" and "What is a procedure?"

The authors build up the simple notion of a procedure to dizzying complexity. The discussion culminates in the description of the code behind the programming language Scheme. The authors finish with examples of how to implement some of the book's concepts on a register machine. Through this journey, the reader not only learns how to program, but also how to think about programming.

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs has had a dramatic impact on computer science curricula over the past decade. This long-awaited revision contains changes throughout the text. There are new implementations of most of the major programming systems in the book, including the interpreters and compilers, and the authors have incorporated many small changes that reflect their experience teaching the course at MIT since the first edition was published. A new theme has been introduced that emphasizes the central role played by different approaches to dealing with time in computational models: objects with state, concurrent programming, functional programming and lazy evaluation, and nondeterministic programming. There are new example sections on higher-order procedures in graphics and on applications of stream processing in numerical programming, and many new exercises. In addition, all the programs have been reworked to run in any Scheme implementation that adheres to the IEEE standard. - (amazon review)

About the Author: Harold Abelson is Class of 1992 Professor and MacVicar Teaching Fellow, and Gerald Jay Sussman is Matsushita Professor of Electrical Engineering, both in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They have each received major computer science education awards: Abelson the IEEE Computer Society Booth Award and Sussman the ACM Karlstrom Award. Julie Sussman is a writer and editor, in both natural and computer languages.

Lisp - RECOMMENDED BY THE AI LAB CROWD at MIT (a repeat in case you missed it up top; you definitely need AI then): Patrick Henry Winston, Berthold Klaus Paul Horn / Paperback / Published 1988

Look: here's a simple language .... a good place to start ...scheme

The Little Schemer; Daniel P. Friedman, et al
The Seasoned Schemer; Daniel P. Friedman, et al
Essentials of Programming Languages (2nd Edition) by Daniel P. Friedman,
The Scheme Programming Language : ANSI Scheme; R. Kent Dybvig, Kent Dybbig

The ANSI Common Lisp (Prentice Hall Series in Artificial Intelligence) -- Paul Graham; - - The Harvard Crowd (at least CS51) say this one is the book. Who knows , get the MIT pick and the Harvard pick and write a comparison!

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