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From: ALAN@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU (Alan Bawden)
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Subject: Contrast
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Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 07:59:38 EST
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    Date: 23-Jan-86 12:52:19-PST
    From: jbn at FORD-WDL1
    ...  Contrast this with Minksy's recent claims seen here that airline
    reservation systems were invented by someone at the MIT AI lab in the
    1960s.

I decided to take a close look at this contrast.  After searching through
the recent archives, the only mention by Minsky of airline reservation
systems that I can find is:

    And I'm pretty sure that the first practical airline reservation was
    designed by Danny Bobrow of the BBN AI group around 1966.!

Now that I have refreshed my memory with what he actually said, I think the
contrast is not quite as unflattering.  Given the use of the adjective
``practical'', someone might even be able to make a case that he is right.