WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Edison
    n 1: United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph
         and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the
         Kinetoscope (1847-1931) [syn: Edison, Thomas Edison,
         Thomas Alva Edison]

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

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)