Source : WordNet®

Edison
     n : United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph
         and incandescent electric light and the microphone and
         the Kinetoscope (1847-1931) [syn: {Thomas Edison}, {Thomas
         Alva Edison}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Edison
     
        1. (Named after the American inventor Thomas Edison
        (1847-1931))
     
        A simplified Pascal by Per Brinch Hansen with {modules} and
        {concurrency} (cobegin/coend).
     
        ["Edison - A Multiprocessor Language", P. Brinch Hansen, CS
        Dept, USC, Sep 1980].
     
        ["Programming a Personal Computer", Brinch Hansen, P-H 1977].
     
        2. A language which adds an {OPS5}-like {rete}-based
        {production system} system to {C}.  It is implemented as a {C}
        {preprocessor}.
     
        ["Edison, A Unix and C Friendly Rete Based Production System",
        B. Thirion, SIGPLAN Notices 27(1):75-84 (Jan 1992)].
     
        (1994-12-08)