2nd Accession, AI, BLOCKED-SENSITIVE, Letters, and Simon
Notes:
Letter (1986/04/02); Excellent set of ideas by Simon of what he thinks of Dreyfus' contribution--namely foolishness and ignorance. Good perspective on intuition--what is it? Pasternak was a well-known interviewer of well-known people.
Collection:
Edward A. Feigenbaum papers, 1950-2007 (inclusive)
Journal Article; in COGNITIVE SCIENCE (1984); No. 8; p. 305-336; A description is provided of EPAM-III, a theory in the form of a computer program for simulating human verbal learning, along with a summary of the empirical evidence for its validity. Criticisms leveled against the theory in a recent paper by Barsalou and Bower are shown to derive largely from their misconception that EPAM-III employed a binary, rather than n-ary branching discrimination net. It is shown that Barsalou and Bower also failed to understand how the recursive structure of EPAM-III eliminates the need to duplicate test nodes that are used to recognize subobjects, and how the possibility of redundant recognition paths controls the sensitivity of EPAM to noticing order. EPAM is also compared briefly with other theories of human discrimination and discrimination learning, including PANDEMONIUM-like systems and dataflow nets. ; Important paper in that it represents a rather "mature" view of the EPAM contribution, decades after the most active work on EPAM
A description is provided of EPAM-III, a theory in the form of a computer program for simulating human verbal learning, along with a summary of the empirical evidence for its validity. Criticisms leveled against the theory in a recent paper by Barsalou and Bower are shown to derive largely from their misconception that EPAM-III employed a binary, rather than n-ary branching discrimination net. It is shown that Barsalou and Bower also failed to understand how the recursive structure of EPAM-III eliminates the need to duplicate test nodes that are used to recognize subobjects, and how the possibility of redundant recognition paths controls the sensitivity of EPAM to noticing order. EPAM is also compared briefly with other theories of human discrimination and discrimination learning, including PANDEMONIUM-like systems and dataflow nets.
Collection:
Edward A. Feigenbaum papers, 1950-2007 (inclusive)
Letter (1984/03/19); Response of Gordon Bower to criticism of his paper ; EAF- Did Bower ever show me the paper, as he claimed? Did our criticism ever appear in Cognitive Science?
Response of Gordon Bower to criticism of his paper
Collection:
Edward A. Feigenbaum papers, 1950-2007 (inclusive)
Herbert A. Simon, "Grappling With the Hard Problems: The Uses of Reason in Human Affairs"
Author:
Simon, Herbert A. (Herbert Alexander), 1916-2001
Description:
Harry Camp Memorial Lectures. The Harry Camp Memorial Fund was established in 1956 by friends and associates of Harry Camp. A prominent businessman and philanthropist in San Francisco, Camp was described as a "gentle and wise humanitarian." The fund brings outstanding speakers to the University for public lectures and promotes the study of "the concept of the dignity and the worth of the individual." The Camp Lectures are presented every other year.
Topic:
Computer science, Artificial intelligence, and Expert systems (Computer science)
Language:
English
Physical Description:
1 audio cassette
Publication Info:
Stanford (Calif.)
Date:
February 11, 1982
Place created:
Stanford (Calif.)
Imprint:
Stanford (Calif.), February 11, 1982
Genre:
lectures
Series:
2005-071
Box:
72
Identifier:
SC0340_2005-101_b72_06
Location:
SC0340, Accession 2005-071, Box 72
Collection:
Edward A. Feigenbaum papers, 1950-2007 (inclusive)
Herbert A. Simon, "Grappling With the Hard Problems: The Uses of Reason in Human Affairs". Part 1.
Author:
Simon, Herbert A. (Herbert Alexander), 1916-2001
Description:
Harry Camp Memorial Lectures. The Harry Camp Memorial Fund was established in 1956 by friends and associates of Harry Camp. A prominent businessman and philanthropist in San Francisco, Camp was described as a "gentle and wise humanitarian." The fund brings outstanding speakers to the University for public lectures and promotes the study of "the concept of the dignity and the worth of the individual." The Camp Lectures are presented every other year.
Topic:
Computer science, Artificial intelligence, and Expert systems (Computer science)
Language:
English
Physical Description:
1 audio cassette
Publication Info:
Stanford (Calif.)
Date:
February 09, 1982
Place created:
Stanford (Calif.)
Imprint:
Stanford (Calif.), February 9, 1982
Genre:
lectures
Series:
2005-071
Box:
72
Identifier:
SC0340_2005-101_b72_09
Location:
SC0340, Accession 2005-071, Box 72
Collection:
Edward A. Feigenbaum papers, 1950-2007 (inclusive)