If it works…


April 28th, 2008

…it’s not AI.
Funny.
Just ran across a great paper written by Eve Phillips documenting a history of artificial intelligence. Well worth a read. The title made me smile because my first job in IT was writing an expert system and it most certainly didn’t work. Must have been AI then.
The above paper [...]

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Computer Languages 22 years on


February 19th, 2008

Many moons ago in the late 1980s, right at the start of my interest in computers, I bought a book about computer languages. The book titled Computer Languages: A Guide for the Perplexed by Naomi S Baron inspired me to get into programming and eventually led me to program professionally (in the sense that somebody [...]

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