Harold Abelson's inaugural lecture for MIT's 6.001, "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs," introduces Lisp as a foundational tool for computational abstraction.
MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Spring 2005
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Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science, MIT & Co-Author of SICP
MIT Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and co-author of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP).
Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering, MIT & Co-Author of SICP
MIT Professor and co-author of SICP and Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics, co-inventor of the Scheme programming language.