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The strategy has been implemented in a simple QLISP program.

Plan modification *The research reported herein was sponsored by the National Science Foundation under Grant GJ-36146.

Charles A. Rosen came to SRI in 1957. I arrived in 1961. Between these dates, Charlie organized an Applied Physics Laboratory and became interested in "learning machines" and "self-organizing systems." That interest launched a group that ultimately grew into a major world center of artificial intelligence research - a center that has endured twenty-five years of boom and bust in fashion, has "graduated" over a hundred AI research professionals, and has generated ideas and programs resulting in new products and companies as well as scientific articles, books, and this particular collection itself.