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• The visual programming language Max (Max/MSP) is named in honor of Bell Labs computer-music pioneer Max Mathews
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · computer-music, max-mathews, max, visual-programming, bell-labs
• The "Wengert list" tape is named for the inventor of the other mode — Wengert 1964 published forward accumulation; automatic reverse mode arrived with Speelpenning 1980
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-07 · wengert-list, automatic-differentiation, forward-mode, reverse-mode, history-of-computation