Claim · 1959-03 · event · Inferred · Supported

Howard Campaigne's paper for the Western Joint Computer Conference of 3–5 March 1959 is titled "Some experiments in machine learning".

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What it connects

Some experiments in machine learning → uses the name →

Where it appears

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Claim and evidence

Some experiments in machine learninguses the name ↓

Machine-checked, not reviewed by an editorInferredSupported

Supporting evidence: secondary · 2 sources

Reasoning and premisesPremises: the index records give the title with the phrase "machine learning" and place the paper in the proceedings of a joint computer conference of the IRE, AIEE and ACM. Inference: the phrase names learning by computing machines. The paper text was not read.

Date: 1959-03 · event Records dated 1959 →

Scope and limitsIt held the earliest-located role in the candidate pack; that role is withheld until the leads the concept records are read. Found by the recorded search, on the title alone as indexed by Crossref; the sense is inferred from the venue and the paper's content was not read (ACM refused). Not evidence of coinage or of any link to Samuel.

Rests on reportingNo primary source supports this record; its supporting passages come from reporting.

The evidence 02

secondary sourceSupports the claim

Crossref query: bibliographic "machine learning", publication dates 1940 to 1959-12 (200 rows by relevance)

Crossref REST API (bibliographic index; publisher-deposited metadata) · Publication date unknown

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Source excerpt

“Some experiments in machine learning”

Location in source item DOI 10.1145/1457838.1457868, title

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-31

Source details and check notes

Authors: Crossref REST API (bibliographic index; publisher-deposited metadata)
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 e0d951cbffe39e27f87967caa73a1bdf1dceb647f1f6a8ea424096bcb701cbc6). Index query result (JSON), 6,148 matches, 200 rows read
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Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Crossref REST API (bibliographic index; publisher-deposited metadata), “Crossref query: bibliographic "machine learning", publication dates 1940 to 1959-12 (200 rows by relevance)”.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, Kinds of AI and technical history (research/technical-history). The quotation (5 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, PDF line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. Bibliographic index record (publisher-deposited metadata), not the text itself. A cross-family machine check (31 October 2026, item 69) re-read the record’s sources and found that they support what the record states. Its point that the conference interval is not a verified presentation or publication date was applied at admission. No human editorial review.

secondary sourceSupports the claim

Crossref record for DOI 10.1145/1457838.1457868

Crossref REST API (bibliographic index; publisher-deposited metadata) · Publication date unknown

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Paraphrase

The record names the author Howard Campaigne and places the paper, pages 173-175, in the papers presented at the March 3-5, 1959 Western Joint Computer Conference, San Francisco.

Location in source author, container-title and event fields

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-31

Source details and check notes

Authors: Howard Campaigne
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 6d984b2777c6e0bf8c796986acc16c8a6125264ad10e8a2684b0464bc5ea325e). Index record (JSON) with the conference event dates
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Howard Campaigne, “Crossref record for DOI 10.1145/1457838.1457868”.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, Kinds of AI and technical history (research/technical-history). The paraphrase is Selekoa’s, written from the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29; it is not a quotation and was not machine-matched. Bibliographic index record (publisher-deposited metadata), not the text itself. A cross-family machine check (31 October 2026, item 69) re-read the record’s sources and found that they support what the record states. Its point that the conference interval is not a verified presentation or publication date was applied at admission. No human editorial review.

Status and meaning

Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor. An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.

Relation. A passage of the document uses a name for a family of methods or a term, in the sense the concept’s naming criterion describes or, where labelled, in another sense. The record documents the use; it is not evidence that the name began there, and it implies no influence on or from another text.

Date. Month of the Western Joint Computer Conference (3–5 March 1959), as the index record gives it; no text verifies the paper’s presentation or its publication day.

Record ID th-ml-campaigne-1959