The Yale Artificial Intelligence Project: A Brief Historv

This overview of the Yale Artificial Intelligence Project serves as an introduction to Scientific Datalink's microfiche publication of Yale AI Technical Reports Researchers develop new ideas and plant them in programs. The programs are cultivated, hybridized, nurtured. The weaker ideas die out. The stronger ideas are grafted onto new stock and serve as the basis of hearty new strains. At Yale, there has been a traditional summer seminar series at which graduate students present their unprepossessing theories to the vocal and critical review of their colleagues.