Ken Tilton  <kentilton@gmail.com> wrote:
+---------------
| Thomas F. Burdick wrote:
| > p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) wrote:
| >>AIM-8 is dated March 4 1959.  I would take this as the birthday of
| >>LISP.  Before that it was in gestation.
| > 
| > Cool, March 4 it is! Fire up your drinking societies! ...
...
| So what the Hell is aim-8 other than an incredibly good
| hi-fi speaker based on the google hits?
+---------------

MIT AI (Lab) Memo (hence, "AIM") #8 (hence, "AIM-8"), specifically:

    ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/pdf/AIM-008.pdf
    March 4, 1959
    Artificial Intelligence Project--RLE and MIT Computation Center
    Memo 8
    RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS OF SYMBOLIC EXPRESSIONS AND
    THEIR COMPUTATION BY MACHINE
    by J. McCarthy

[Caveat: It's a ~6 MB scan of a typed memo.]

Note: The version above has a "bugfix" page:

    An Error in Memo 8
    The definition of given on page 15 has two errors...

prepended to it dated March 13, 1959!  ;-}  ;-}


-Rob

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