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From: smoliar@vaxa.isi.edu (Stephen Smoliar)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: The Success of AI
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Date: Tue, 20-Oct-87 12:14:48 EDT
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In article <9320@ut-sally.UUCP> brian@ut-sally.UUCP (Brian H. Powell) writes:
>     If you read the summaries of AM, you think it's powerful.  Once you read
>the entire dissertation, you realize it's not quite as great a program as you
>had thought, but you still think it's good research.
>
Actually, Lenat and John Seely Brown did something rather like this when they
wrote the paper "Why AM and Eurisko Appear to Work" for AAAI-83.