colonel%sunybcs@math.waterloo.EDU.UUCP (04/06/87)
In article <MINSKY.12290784989.BABYL@MIT-OZ>, MINSKY@OZ.AI.MIT.EDU writes: > The term "demon" comes from Oliver Selfridge, via the paper, > "Pandemonium: A Paradigm for Learning", published in Symposium of the > mechanization of Thought Processes, November 1858. Then we can certainly concede priority to Selfridge. I wonder how much influence he had on the work of Babbage? (Ken, you should have caught this!) -- Col. G. L. Sicherman UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel CS: colonel@buffalo-cs BI: colonel@sunybcs, csdsiche@ubvms