Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!gatech!pravda!robinson From: robinson@pravda.gatech.edu (Stephen M. Robinson) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: 2 talks by Herb Simon at Rutgers Thursday Feb. 23 Message-ID: <18094@gatech.edu> Date: 6 Mar 89 22:25:39 GMT References: <2493@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> Sender: news@gatech.edu Reply-To: robinson@pravda.UUCP (Stephen M. Robinson) Organization: Georgia Tech AI Group Lines: 32 In article <2493@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes: >mostow@fokker.rutgers.edu (Jack Mostow) wrote: >> [Herb Simon:] The past decade has seen the creation of a substantial number >> of AI programs that are capable of making discoveries at a non-trivial >> (professional) level. Such programs include Meta-Dendral, AM and EURISKO, >> BACON and its associates (DALTON, GLAUBER, STAHL), and KEDADA. >I am by no means up-to-date on AI, but I don't believe this. .... > .... What have these things *actually achieved*? >Jack Campin * Computing Science Department, Glasgow University, 17 Lilybank BACON, GLAUBER, DALTON and STAHL are programs designed not to discover new things but rather to show that it is possible to account for scientific discovery computationally without having to make appeal to some mysterious "intuition," especially when run cooperatively. See the book _Scientific Discovery_ by Langley, Simon and Bradshaw, 1987. These programs are tools for studying the process of discovery more than programs designed to make discoveries which are completely new to their domains. Stephen M. Robinson AI Group School of Information and Computer Science Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332 InterNet: robinson@pravda.gatech.edu UUCPNet: ...!{uiucdcs,akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp} !gatech!pravda!robinson Phone: (404)894-8932