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From: minsky@media-lab.media.mit.edu.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Marvin Minsky)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Looking for information on EURISKO
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Date: 30 Apr 91 03:17:16 GMT
References: <1991Apr18.130550.8014@vax1.tcd.ie> <1991Apr29.210353.24849@edsr.eds.com>
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In article <1991Apr29.210353.24849@edsr.eds.com> wjb@tantalum.eds.com (Bill Biesty) writes:
>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.

There's also a follow-up experiment by Kenneth Haase, who replicated a
large part of EURISKO with various variations and alternate
reformulations.  He is kwh@media-lab.media.mit.edu