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From: sshankar@cs.umn.edu (Subash Shankar)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: What Has Traditional AI Accomplished?
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Date: 11 Oct 90 23:36:58 GMT
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It seems to me that optimizing compilers use many techniques which
could be considered AI techniques.  Does anybody know whether these
techniques historically rose from the AI or the compiler communities?