The AI Memos are a series of influential memorandums and technical reports published by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT AI Lab), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States. They cover Artificial Intelligence, a field of computer science.

Memos

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 chess convincingly
  • AI Memo 239 (1972), also known as HAKMEM, a compendium of hacks 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"[citation needed] AI Memo 514 (1979), "Design of LISP-based Processors, or SCHEME: A Dielectric LISP, or Finite Memories Considered Harmful, or LAMBDA: The Ultimate Opcode"

External links

  • collection at DSpace at MIT
  • historical archive at the CSAIL Publications
  • Video & Image Generator