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Brian Masinick

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I was a Computer Science student from 1975-1979. At that time, Lisp was the only programming language that had any remote concepts that led to useful artificial intelligence development. If you read up on Lisp, you'll see that it was intended to be a list processing language, and it certainly had an influence in the development of software artificial intelligence.

Other than an academic introduction to it long ago, I've had relatively few practical excursions into AI, and I'm now retired, so I read and observe mostly to understand how technologies are likely to impact my every day life.