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- From: mcdermott-drew@CS.YALE.EDU (Drew McDermott)
- Subject: Re: Demon
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.145621.11723@cs.yale.edu>
- Keywords: demon
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- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 14:56:21 GMT
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- In article <92Aug14.120610edt.300@smoke.cs.toronto.edu>, gh@cs.toronto.edu (Graeme Hirst) writes:
- |> In article <1992Aug14.055751.29529@unixg.ubc.ca> xie@unixg.ubc.ca (Linchi Xie) writes:
- |> >Can somebody tell me why an attached procedure in AI is called 'demon'?
- |> >Who coined the word?
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- |> So in AI, an attached procedure is like a little demon that pops up at
- |> the right time to look after something; rather a nice metaphor. I
- |> believe Eugene Charniak was the first to use it, in his dissertation,
- |> 1972.
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- |> --
- |> \\\\ Graeme Hirst University of Toronto Computer Science Department
- |> //// gh@cs.utoronto.ca / gh@cs.toronto.edu / 416-978-8747
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- I would give credit to Oliver Selfridge, in his "pandemonium" perception
- model from about 1959. See the paper by Selfridge and Neisser in Computers
- and Thought.
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- -- Drew McDermott
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