Vidal's libraryTitle: | Programs with Common Sense |
Author: | John McCarthy |
Book Tittle: | Proceedings of the Teddington Conference on the Mechanization of Thought Processes |
Pages: | 75--91 |
Publisher: | Her Majesty's Stationary Office |
Year: | 1959 |
Abstract: | This paper will discuss programs to manipulate in a suitable formal language (most likely a part of the predicate calculus) common instrumental statements. The basic program will draw immediate conclusions from a list of premises. These conclusions will be either declarative or imperative sentences. When an imperative sentence is deduced the program takes a corresponding action. These actions may include printing sentences, moving sentences on lists, and reinitiating the basic deduction process on these lists. |
Cited by 812 - Google Scholar
@InProceedings{ mccarthy59a,
author = {John McCarthy},
title = {Programs with Common Sense},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {T}eddington Conference on the
Mechanization of Thought Processes},
publisher = {Her Majesty's Stationary Office},
address = {London},
pages = {75--91},
year = 1959,
cluster = {12020371806180023183},
abstract = {This paper will discuss programs to manipulate in a
suitable formal language (most likely a part of the
predicate calculus) common instrumental
statements. The basic program will draw immediate
conclusions from a list of premises. These
conclusions will be either declarative or imperative
sentences. When an imperative sentence is deduced
the program takes a corresponding action. These
actions may include printing sentences, moving
sentences on lists, and reinitiating the basic
deduction process on these lists.},
url = {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/library/maccarthy59a.pdf},
comment = {Probably the first paper on logical AI, i.e. AI in
which logic is the method of representing
information in computer memory and not just the
subject matter of the program. The paper was given
in the Teddington Conference on the Mechanization of
Thought Processes in December 1958 and printed in
the proceedings of that conference. It may also be
the first paper to propose common sense reasoning
ability as the key to AI.},
}
Last modified: Wed Mar 9 10:13:20 EST 2011