grady@ingres.Berkeley.EDU.BERKELEY.EDU (Steven Grady) (05/15/86)
In the June 86 issue of IAsfm ,there's a fascinating article on AI and common sense. In this article, the author mentions a program called Eurisko, which I had heard about before briefly, but which I'm now reminded of. Do people have references to this? How can I find out more about it? Steven Grady ...!ucbvax!grady grady@ingres.berkeley.edu
holte@brueer.UUCP (Robert Holte) (05/24/86)
> In the June 86 issue of IAsfm ,there's a fascinating article on AI and > common sense. In this article, the author mentions a program called > Eurisko, ... > How can I find out more about it? > > Steven Grady Douglas Lenat has written and exercised two heuristic "discovery" programs, AM and EURISKO. His initial exploration of the problem of heuristic (mechanical) discovery constituted his Ph.D. research and culminated in the somewhat controversial program, AM. After his thesis, Lenat analyzed the shortcomings and strengths (or "sources of power" as he came to call them) of AM, and from this analysis EURISKO was conceived. Unfortunatley, since Lenat's move from Stanford to MCC (Austin) a year or two ago, he has ceased working with EURISKO. I am aware of one or two isolated, low-profile projects to build EURISKO-like systems. Most notable is the work of Ken Haase at MIT on a system called CYRANO -- but I don't think any of Haase's work has yet been published. -- Rob Holte UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!brueer!holte ARPANET, CSNET, JANET: holte@ee.brunel.ac.uk Dept. of Electrical Engineering Brunel University England UB8 3PH EURISKO References: (Lenat is the sole or first author in all cases) (1) Artificial Intelligence journal, vol.21, nos.1,2, 1983 (two articles: pp.31-59, pp.61-98) MOST COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNT AVAILABLE, includes a description of the program and its applications (2) Lenat's chapter (pp. 243-306) in the book "Machine Learning" (volume 1), edited by R.S. Michalski, J.G. Carbonell, and T.M. Mitchell, Tioga Press, 1983 (3) The AI Magazine, vol.3, no.3, 1982 (summer), pp.17-33 CONCENTRATES ON THE APPLICATION of Eurisko to the discovery of new VLSI microcircuit structures (4) SIGART Newsletter (ACM Special Interest Group on AI), No. 79, 1982 (January), pp.16-17 Anecdotal account of EURISKO's success in designing a "fleet" which won a national wargame tournament (5) "Why AM and EURISKO Appear to Work", Lenat and J. Seely Brown, Artificial Intelligence journal, vol.23, no.3 (1984), pp.269-294 AN INSIGHTFUL ANALYSIS of the success of Lenat's 2 programs