brinkema@fjc.GOV (John R. Brinkema) (04/12/91)
In the many articles about the RETE algorithm that I've read, no one has mentioned where the name 'RETE' comes/came from. Anyone know? jb.
NORVIG@Teak.Berkeley.EDU (Peter Norvig) (04/13/91)
"Rete" comes from the Latin for "network". Webster's says:
rete N /'ret-e, 'rat-/
: pl
also retia /'ret-e-*, 'rat-/
[NL, fr. L, net -- more at RETINA]
1 : a network esp. of blood vessels or nerves : PLEXUS
2 : an anatomical part resembling or including a networkminsky@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Marvin Minsky) (04/13/91)
In article <397@fjcp60.GOV> brinkema@fjc.GOV (John R. Brinkema) writes: >In the many articles about the RETE algorithm that I've read, no one >has mentioned where the name 'RETE' comes/came from. Anyone know? jb. webster rete re.te \'re-t-e-, 'ra-t-\ \'re-t-e--*, 'ra-t-\ n or re.tia [NL, fr. L, net - more at RETINA] pl 1: a network esp. of blood vessels or nerves : PLEXUS 2: an anatomical part resembling or including a network
gowj@novavax.UUCP (James Gow) (04/17/91)
In article <5651@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> minsky@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky) writes: >In article <397@fjcp60.GOV> brinkema@fjc.GOV (John R. Brinkema) writes: >>In the many articles about the RETE algorithm that I've read, no one >>has mentioned where the name 'RETE' comes/came from. Anyone know? jb. > Dr. MInsky, It occurs to me to ask after reading your classic frames article and P.H. Winston in our search to provide good repreenstations of knowledge whether or not the representations are paired in any way to the machine and its ability to electronically support that representation or whether or not we are building machines to match the representations we construct theoretically. I see the human brain and its mental processes as a perfect synergetic match between structure and process. I know we haven't reached this in AI but do we look at it and if so what progress have we made? linc james