Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!labrea!jade!ucbvax!OZ.AI.MIT.EDU!MINSKY From: MINSKY@OZ.AI.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest Subject: AIList V5 #253 - LISP, NIL, Msc. Message-ID: Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 17:20:00 EST Article-I.D.: MIT-OZ.MINSKY.12346702081.BABYL Posted: Fri Oct 30 17:20:00 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 6-Nov-87 22:50:07 EST References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 23 Approved: ailist@kl.sri.com In reply to noekel@uklirb.UUCP who is > >currently building a AI bibliography and still searching for a >suitable classification/key word scheme. In the IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics, March 1961, I published a big (600 item) bibliography on AI. It may have been the first published descriptor-index bibliography or, perhaps, the first to use the term "descriptor", which I got from Calvin Mooers. Now NOEKE wants one that has "gained wide-spread use in the AI community" and my 1961 set of terms must be rather dated and does not reflect many newer ideas. However, much of it may still be useful. And I would be curious about how useful it might remain after all those years. The bibliography was a by-product of work on my other 1961 article, "steps toward artificial intelligence" which appeared in the Proceedings of the IRE (whose name later changed to Proc. IEEE.) The reason the bibliographic appeared in the more obscure Human Factors journal was that "Steps" was already too long and there was no more room. Tom Marill was editing a special issue of the HF transactions and offered to place it there because that issue contained other AI-related topics.