The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
memo function
memoisation
memoised function
memoization
memoized function
(Or "memoised function") A function that
remembers which arguments it has been called with and the
result returned and, if called with the same arguments again,
returns the result from its memory rather than recalculating
it.
Memo functions were invented by Professor Donald Michie of
Edinburgh University. The idea was further developed by
Robin Popplestone in his Pop2 language long before it was
ever worked into LISP.
This same principle is found at the hardware level in computer
architectures which use a cache to store recently accessed
memory locations.
A Common Lisp package by Marty Hall
(ftp://archive.cs.umbc.edu/pub/Memoization).
["'Memo' functions: and machine learning", Donald Michie,
Nature, 218, 19-22, 1968].
(2002-07-02)