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From: Nagle@cup.portal.com (John - Nagle)
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Subject: Re: Request for Empirical Discovery Programs
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Date: 5 Jan 90 07:41:47 GMT
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      Presumably you are familiar with AM and Eurisko.  A recent
article on this subject is Lenat's "Why AM and Eurisko Appear To
Work" in Huberman's "Computational Ecology", which is a little outside
the mainstream AI literature and worth checking out.  

      This isn't a field in which much work has been done recently.
There were a few easy hits in the early days, but it proved very
difficult to advance much beyond the level seen in AM/Eurisko.
But Lenat, who is at the MCC in Austin, is still trying.

					John Nagle