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From: misha@ai.mit.edu (Mike Bolotski)
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Subject: Re: "Easy" way to put "AI" in realtime embedded systems?
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Date: 16 Apr 91 15:32:55 GMT
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In article <5494@mindlink.UUCP>, Nick_Janow@mindlink.UUCP (Nick Janow) writes:

|> I don't have the references for that; I do remember reading that Forth
|> definitely was being used for AI work.

Here's a data point. The only application of Forth that I'm aware of
at the AI Lab is programming a single-board 6811 computer for
low-level operations such as motor control. The language is not used
for any other purposes, including research on core AI.

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Mike Bolotski          Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT
misha@ai.mit.edu       Cambridge, MA