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This entertaining book is designed for the reader who enjoys thinking about new technologies and how to use them in solving practical problems. It provides reusable software modules for specific applications, as well as the methodology and spirit required to master problems for which there is no obvious solution. This book is for AI novices who want to learn new technologies and increase their capabilities and for AI professionals who want reusable application-oriented software modules to use in building their own systems. Each chapter contains background information and theory, a discussion of sample programs, program listings and output, additional information on the sample programs, and suggested exercises. Chapters use engaging real-world examples such as speech and handwriting recognition using neural networks, natural language processing with an example database interface, expert system shells, computer chess game, chaos theory, and fractal generation programs. The text assumes a reading knowledge of LISP and the implementation ability of a set of graphics primitives used for simple graphics operations. While all examples are implemented in Common LISP, the examples are also portable to other LISP dialects. The neural network and fractal examples are also portable to other languages such as C and Pascal. ... Read more

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Excellent book for LISP students
This book contains interesting LISP source code. The title say about Neural Networks and chaos, but the Chaos chapter is very small.However, this book contains a game!!. The Chess program (not use neural networks) is written totally in LISP. And play good.You can study the search techniques. I recommend this book for LISP lovers. ... Read more

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The ultimate beginners ride to lisp programming.
Hennessey gives a very clear introduction to basic LISP programming techniques, syntax and usage. He assumes little or no previous programming experience and while his book may not cover the more erudite uses that LISPis commonly used for, I would recommend it highly to a beginner, as itsatisfies his needs exactly to the level where he can start learning to bea serious LISP programmer. ... Read more

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Let the industry's top two experts show you how to use the power tool of AutoCAD--AutoLISP programming. In in this handy guide, loaded with tips, the Kramers start with the basics of AutoLISP and go right through to complex detailsof using AutoLISP Release 11 and 12. Covers all aspects of AutoLISP, providing more power in the reader's AutoCAD applications. ... Read more

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Understanding AutoLisp: programming for Productivity
It seems very intuitive and provides a serious look at productivity. ... Read more

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GEM on Lisp
It's simply a WONDERFUL title on LISP. I got the opportunity to work on Lisp firstly during my Graduate, then during Doctoral Studies, both at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and finally while teaching graduate students of Computer Science at Punjabi University Patiala, Punjab, India, where I used this book as the main text book in the classroom. The book is very lucid, precise, and includes meaningful exercises and projects at the end of each chapter. Other books on the subject are either too big, or lack good quality exercises. All books include only toy examples, not meaningful graduate level exercises. ... Read more

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A clear introduction to LISP, its functions and applications to artificial intelligence. Readers learning LISP on their PCs to researchers and programmers in industry and the military will find this book well suited to a self-study environment. ... Read more

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Chapters: Lisp, Logo, Autolisp, Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp, Dylan, Lisp Machine Lisp, Maclisp, Document Style Semantics and Specification Language, Acl2, Xlisp, Qi, Pop-11, Rpl, Clojure, Nil, Newlisp, Cadence Skill, Arc, Franz Lisp, *lisp, Flavors, Lispworks, Interlisp, Allegro Common Lisp, Mlisp, Game Oriented Assembly Lisp, Mdl, Multilisp, Lispkit Lisp, Lush, Picolisp, Message Parsing Interpreter, Portable Standard Lisp, Scieneer Common Lisp, Clozure Cl, Vistasmalltalk, Pc-Lisp, Eulisp, Nyquist, Actor-Based Concurrent Language, Animal, Adenine, Ironscheme, Corman Common Lisp, Ironlisp, Lisp 2, Goo, Esh, Islisp, Vlisp, Croma, Kernel, Xlispstat, Object Lisp, L Sharp, Mocklisp, Bbn Lisp, S-1 Lisp, Subl, le Lisp, Objvlisp. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 266. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Common Lisp, commonly abbreviated CL, is a dialect of the Lisp programming language, published in ANSI standard document ANSI INCITS 226-1994 (R2004), (formerly X3.226-1994 (R1999)). From the ANSI Common Lisp standard the Common Lisp HyperSpec has been derived for use with web browsers. Common Lisp was developed to standardize the divergent variants of Lisp (though mainly the MacLisp variants) which predated it, thus it is not an implementation but rather a language specification. Several implementations of the Common Lisp standard are available, including free and open source software and proprietary products. Common Lisp is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language. It supports a combination of procedural, functional, and object-oriented programming paradigms. As a dynamic programming language, it facilitates evolutionary and incremental software development, with iterative compilation into efficient run-time programs. Common Lisp includes CLOS, an object system that supports multimeth...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6068 ... Read more

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Not what I thought it was.
I thought this was a book on programming in lisp, but in fact it was a list of all of the different versions of lisp there is out there, plus a tiny bit of history about it. ... Read more

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This volume presents the proceedings of a workshop at which major Parallel Lisp activities in the US and Japan were explained. Work covered includes Multilisp and Mul-T at MIT, Qlisp at Stanford, Lucid and Parcel at Illinois, PaiLisp at Tohoku University, Multiprocessor Lisp on TOP-1 at IBM Tokyo Research, and concurrent programming in TAO. Most papers present languages and systems of Parallel Lisp and are in particular concerned with: - Language constructs of Parallel Lisp and their meanings from the standpoint of implementing Parallel Lisp systems; - Some important technical issues such as parallel garbage collection, dynamic task partitioning, futures and continuations in parallelism, automatic parallelization of Lisp programs, and the kernel concept of Parallel Lisp. Some performance results are reported that suggest practical applicability of Parallel Lisp systems in the near future. Several papers on concurrent object-oriented systems are also included. ... Read more

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While the semantics of 'pure' lisp is well understood, the same cannot be said for the lisp that people actually use, due to the presence of so-called 'destructive operations' in programs, operations like RPLACA and RPLACD that destructively manipulate data. Such destructive operations have caused considerable difficulty in bridging the gap between theory program verification, and program transformation. In this book, Ian A. Mason aims at squaring theory with practice by first developing a theory that respects practice and then improving practice within this theory. Mason's theory is based on a new notion of memory structure that is adequate to model such destructive operations. Within this framework, he investigates various equivalence relations between expressions in first order lisp. This fragment of lisp includes the destructive operations of RPLACA and RPLACD. Mason then defines some important equivalence relations in lisp programs within this model theoretic framework. Throughout the work, Mason makes a distinction between intensional relations and extensional relations. ... Read more

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Written for the professional statistician or graduate statistics student, the primary objective of this book is to describe a system, based on the LISP language, for statistical computing and dynamic graphics to show how it can be used as an effective platform for a wide range of statistical computing tasks ranging from basic calculations to customizing dynamic graphs. In addition, it introduces object-oriented programming and graphics programming in a statistical context. The discussion of these ideas is based on the Lisp-Stat system; readers with access to such a system can reproduce the examples presented and use them as a basis for further experimentation and study. ... Read more

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The definitive reference on xlisp-stat
Lisp Stat is the definitive reference on Tierney's xlisp-stat.It is certainly not to be used as a complete lisp reference or tutorial for xlisp-stat programming, it provides a reference of the functions thatTierney has put on top of lisp for xlisp-stat programming and providesenough rudimentary lisp examples and parameters to allow simpleprogramming.It is perhaps more than adequate for those seeking to addbasic features to an existing program through an xlisp-stat applicationprogramming interface or statisticians seeking to exploit the language'spowerful matrix manipulation abilities. ... Read more

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The programming language Lisp is used extensively, particularly in artificial intelligence applications. This work gives an overview of the language and its current state of implementation. Emphasis is placed upon hardware support, and on parallel Lisp dialects for multiprocessor systems, and for this BaLinda Lisp is used as an example. The authors have written this book for readers with some experience of Lisp programming and knowledge of computer languages and architectures. Readers should gain from the book an understanding of the computer science concepts used in Lisp and how they relate to concepts used more widely in language design, parallel processing and computer architecture. This book should be of interest to graduate students, professionals and researchers using Lisp. ... Read more

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Superb introduction to Lisp and customizing Emacs.
I found this book very helpful in learning Lisp and learning how to customize emacs.

It will help you write your own customizations for emacs and even a little acquaintance with this book will help you incorporateother people's emacs customization code into your version of emacs.

Thereis a lot of Lisp code available on the net for emacs but you probably neeedto customize it for your purposes.This book will teach you how.

Thebook is very clearly written and organized and requires little knowledge ofprogramming.

It is nice to have the hard copy but the book is alsoavailable in free electronic form on the Web.

This is one of the bestcomputer books I've read.

Comprehensive introductory to emacs lisp
After I read this book, I started tampering withemacs and was able to understand its operationwith lisp. Emacs supports a powerful computingenvironment in addition to its core editor.

If it's out of stock inamazon, it can bepurchased at www.gnu.org (FSF) directly. ... Read more