Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ucbvax!math.waterloo.EDU!colonel%sunybcs From: colonel%sunybcs@math.waterloo.EDU.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest Subject: Re: AIList Digest V5 #92 Message-ID: <2880@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Apr-87 12:48:27 EST Article-I.D.: sunybcs.2880 Posted: Mon Apr 6 12:48:27 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Apr-87 03:08:58 EST References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: Jack of Clubs Precision Instruments Lines: 13 Approved: ailist@stripe.sri.com In article , MINSKY@OZ.AI.MIT.EDU writes: > The term "demon" comes from Oliver Selfridge, via the paper, > "Pandemonium: A Paradigm for Learning", published in Symposium of the > mechanization of Thought Processes, November 1858. Then we can certainly concede priority to Selfridge. I wonder how much influence he had on the work of Babbage? (Ken, you should have caught this!) -- Col. G. L. Sicherman UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel CS: colonel@buffalo-cs BI: colonel@sunybcs, csdsiche@ubvms