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" • AI Memo 514 (1979), "Design of LISP-based Processors, or SCHEME: A Dielectric LISP, or Finite Memories Considered Harmful, or LAMBDA: The Ultimate Opcode" ==References==