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From: mtanner@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Michael C. Tanner)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: What Has Traditional AI Accomplished?
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Date: 12 Oct 90 18:41:26 GMT
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In-reply-to: cowan@marob.masa.com's message of 11 Oct 90 14:03:27 GMT

In article <27147BB0.11EA@marob.masa.com> cowan@marob.masa.com (John Cowan) writes:
  [ about how early automatic programming efforts produced an assembler ]

I don't know about this.  But once I heard Grace Murray Hopper speak and she
took credit for getting computers to understand English.  When asked what she
meant, she said COBOL.

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Michael C. Tanner                         Assistant Professor
CS Dept                                   AI Center
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