JUXT Cast

S2E18 - re:Clojure Interviews 18 - Gerald Jay Sussman

JUXT Cast

Show Notes

Episode Notes

American museum of natural history in Manhattan

Ham radio operators

QST magazines

Vacuum tube

IBM 650/620 computers

Joel Moses at Columbia

Drum memory

Biquinary encoding

IBM 709 Vacuum tubes computer

Marvin Minsky

Claude Shannon

IPL V interpreter by Carnegie Mellon

Bill Gosper

Lisp 1.5 programmer's manual

PDP-6

MacLisp

Macsyma, symbolic manipulation software

Compacting garbage collector by Minsky

Massachusetts watchmakers association

George Daniels and the co-axial escapement

Analog circuit design

Synthetic Biology making creatures "to order".

Tom Knight synthetic biologist and former student

Formal specification of software

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