The Thirty Year Horizon
The Past 30 Years
Axiom is a general purpose computer algebra system similar in
scope and power to Mathematica and Maple.
The IBM Years
- Started about 1967 under Richard Jenks at IBM Research
- 23 years of development and research
- Fundamentally a research project, focus on algorithms
- Small group with visiting scientists
- Funded by ARPA, NSF, IBM
- Early Period
- Algebra development
- Experiments in interpreter interface design
- Experiments in language design (META, BOOT, SPAD)
- Experiments in parsing and compiling techniques