Arthur Samuel (1901-1990) was a pioneer of artificial intelligence research. From 1949 through the late 1960s, he did the best work in making computers learn from their expe-rience. His vehicle for this work was the game of checkers.

From 1949 through the late required to have his research more didn't finish 1960s, he did the best work in making vigorously followed up on. He was the computers learn from their experience. Programs for playing games often and what would be required to In 1949, Samuel joined IBM's fill the role in artificial intelligence reach human-level intelligence. Poughkeepsie Laboratory, where he research that the fruit fly Drosophila Samuel's papers on machine learning worked on IBM's first stored program plays in genetics. Drosophilae are are still worth studying.

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These debates end by a culture for accommodating of the medical AI community, I feel I up merely as arguments in which its limited knowledge representations. Those of us in intelligence is). Depending such an extent that the limits of the medical AI have been highly sensitized upon what properties of human and computer system would no longer be to common misunderstandings artificial intelligence are stressed we a representational problem? We also encounter a general lack of of the relationship. Will we need to ascribe pleasure and realistic expectations regarding the The problem is that the models of pain to our computer experts?

Thanks from Jack and Janet Mostow for causing them to meet at AAAI'87 and subsequently marry; a correction to Jordan Pollack's affiliation; a correction to the winter 1988 wording of his report on Workshop on Theoretical Issues in Conceptual Information Processing; an addendum to the Slagle and Wick article in 9, 4: A Method for Evaluating Candidate Expert System Applications, citing Bruno Franck, and comments on Intelligent Computer-Aided Engineering by Kenneth D. Forbus in vol 9, no 3.

At their meeting in Milan in 1987, IJCAI Inc. was faced with the issue of multiple submission of papers. IJCAI announces its current policy on this issue through this article. The trustees hope this announcement will encourage a debate from which a consensus can emerge.

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Letters to the editor on the lack of a central index to the field's published works and the fact that many original works are not published in journals; praise for Letovsky article -- stimulating and amusing. felt subsequent letters to editors were full of bombastic indignation; criticism of Kasday letter about it and Bob Engelmore's weak support of the article; dualism in regards to Letovsky letter; and a reply to criticism by Letovsky, acknowledging diaristic form.