JavaScript

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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JavaScript is the programming langage of the web. It was based loosely on Java, but is usually interpretted rather than compiled (although the distinction is somewhat reduced by just-on-time compilers). It enables quite complex behaviour and algorithms, including speech and image processing, to be performed in the web browser.

Used in Chap. 17: page 280