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- From: fawcett@unix1.cs.umass.edu (Tom Fawcett)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai
- Subject: Re: Demon
- Keywords: demon
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- Date: 20 Aug 92 22:49:56 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.055751.29529@unixg.ubc.ca> <92Aug14.120610edt.300@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> <1992Aug17.145621.11723@cs.yale.edu> <1992Aug20.164352.23865@wam.umd.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug20.164352.23865@wam.umd.edu> kandelin@wam.umd.edu (Dr. Nils A. Kandelin) writes:
- >Drew appears to be correct; John V. Jackson mentions the "Pandemonium Theory
- >of Perception" by Oliver Selfridge as using "demons," but no citation is
- >provided for the Selfridge work.
-
- Here's a reference:
-
- auth Selfridge, O. G.
- year 1959
- title Pandemonium: A paradigm for learning
- type inproc
- in Proceedings of the Symposium on the Mechanization of Thought Processes
- pp 513-526
- addr Teddington, England
- pub National Physical Laboratory, H.M. Stationary Office, London
- note Also published in {\it Computers and Thought},
- edited by Feigenbaum and Feldman.
- New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1963, pp. 251-268.
-
-
- I imagine _Computers and Thought_ is much more accessible than the original
- source.
-
- Although Selfridge used the term, and may have been the first to use it in AI,
- as I recall his 'demons' were more like 'features' in pattern recognition,
- rather than attached procedures or constraints.
-
- -Tom
-