message passing
Model where objects or processes communicate by sending messages rather than sharing memory, foundational to distributed and agent-based AI systems.
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Smalltalk-72 Developed at Xerox PARC by Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, and Adele Goldberg
In 1972, Alan Kay and Dan Ingalls at Xerox PARC produced Smalltalk-72, the first working implementation of the Smalltalk language, which embodied Kay's concept of object-oriented programming in which all computation proceeds by objects sending messages to one another.