1988
Selekoa’s 6 records dated 1988, in date order, grouped by topic.
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Ideas & lineages 6 records
Dated to 1988 only
· publication · dated to the year
According to Sutton (1988), temporal-difference methods had been used in Samuel's checker player, Holland's bucket brigade and the author's Adaptive Heuristic Critic. Evidence ↗Learning to Predict by the Methods of Temporal Differences →Claim page →
· publication · dated to the year
Sutton (1988) describes temporal-difference methods as incremental prediction-learning procedures that assign credit by the difference between temporally successive predictions. Evidence ↗Learning to Predict by the Methods of Temporal Differences →Claim page →
January 1988
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Kowalski (1988) writes that the name Prolog was originally intended for the programming language developed by Alain Colmerauer and Philippe Roussel in the summer of 1972. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the month
Kowalski (1988) writes that the name Prolog was suggested by Roussel's wife, Jacqueline, as an abbreviation for 'programmation en logique'. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the month
Kowalski (1988) characterises logic programming as sharing with mechanical theorem proving the use of logic to represent knowledge and of deduction to solve problems. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the month
Kowalski's 1988 recollection is titled 'The Early Years of Logic Programming' and calls logic programming a term that is ambiguous. Evidence ↗