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From: minsky@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Marvin Minsky)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: RETE algorithm
Keywords: RETE
Message-ID: <5651@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 13 Apr 91 01:52:35 GMT
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Reply-To: minsky@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <397@fjcp60.GOV> brinkema@fjc.GOV (John R. Brinkema) writes:
>In the many articles about the RETE algorithm that I've read, no one
>has mentioned where the name 'RETE' comes/came from.  Anyone know?  jb.

webster rete
re.te \'re-t-e-, 'ra-t-\ \'re-t-e--*, 'ra-t-\ n or re.tia [NL, fr. L,
net -
   more at RETINA] pl  1: a network esp. of blood vessels or nerves :
PLEXUS
   2: an anatomical part resembling or including a network