Programs with Common Sense
John McCarthy, “Programs with Common Sense”. Year printed on the author's retyped copy (published 1959). Advice Taker proposal, as dated by McCarthy in 1960 (date claimed by a later account or citation: November 1958). Retyped later copy: wording may differ from the 1959 printing (Mechanisation of Thought Processes symposium, not retrieved).
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- Programs with Common Sense Author's site (www-formal.stanford.edu) · published 1959 · Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 56a4e9fdb9e272e9d968ed1c5201f4032ef43ab3e3fdf65324abd06814eb679f). Later retyped copy on the author's site, with a Stanford address and e-mail header and the year 1959; not the original printing
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