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From: wjb@tantalum.eds.com (Bill Biesty)
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Subject: Re: Looking for information on EURISKO
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Date: 29 Apr 91 21:03:53 GMT
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In article <1991Apr18.130550.8014@vax1.tcd.ie> rwallace@vax1.tcd.ie writes:
->I'm looking for information on a program called EURISKO written by Douglas
->Lenat around 1982, it's a program that uses heuristics to learn information
->specific to the domain it's applied to. I'd be grateful for any information
->anyone could send me.

Try: Artificial Intelligence 21, North-Holland, 1983.
There's two articles by Lenat.  One about AM, precursor to Eurisko
and one about Eurisko.  These are actually chapters in the book.

Also and article called: "Heuretics: Theoretical and Experimental Study of
Heuristic Rules." but my copy doesn't have the compilation volume.  My 
guess though if my memory serves me well is taht it was in a Proceeding of
one of the conferences of AI.  (They're all named similarly and near each 
other in the library.)  Probably in the early '80s as the latest of the 
references at the end is 1982.

And then in the recently published _Readings in Machine Learning_, edited by
Shavlik and Dietterich, Morgan Kauffman, 1990, there's "The Ubiquity of 
Discovery".

Note Lenat has a large number of articles that are very small that just rehash
what's said in the above with rarely some new examples.

Hope this helps.

Bill