Logo

n. a computer programming language designed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory in conjunction with the research firm Bolt, Beranek and Newman to encourage the development of problem-solving skills. A dialect of LISP, Logo was directed primarily at children and is based on Jean Piaget’s research in the development of thinking. [designed by U.S. computer scientist Wally Feurzseig and South African-born U.S. mathematician Seymour Papert (1928– )]

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November 25th 2024

thrombotic stroke

the most common type of stroke, occurring when blood flow to the brain is blocked by a cerebral thrombosis. A thrombotic stroke typically results from the narrowing and eventual occlusion of a large blood vessel in the brain, especially the carotid or middle cerebral artery, by atherosclerosis.