Lisp as the Language for an Incremental Computer (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Most present day information systems are designed along ideas proposed by Turing' and von Neumann. The intent of those authors was to automate the execution of procedures, once the procedures were completely determined. Their basic contributions were the/concepts of executable instructions, program and stored program computer. Information systems based on this conventional philosophy of computation handle effectively only an information process which 1) is selfmcontained, in the sense that its data have a completely predetermined structure, and 2) can be reduced to an algorithm in 'final form, after which no changes can be accomodataibut those for which provision was made in advance. Consequently, the current role of automatic information systems in defense, business and research is mainly confined to simple routine functions such as data reduction, accounting.and lengthy arithmetic computations. Such systems cannot act as evolutionary extensions of human minds in complex, changing environments.

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