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Re:Eurisko, The Computer With A Mind Of Its Own by cabalamat on Sunday December 14, 2008 @08:21AM (#397352)
> No, eurisko nobody has :)

So why is that? Does Lenat not want anyone to see it? Or was the code lost?

BTW am I right in presuming that the original AM was written in Lisp?

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Re:Eurisko, The Computer With A Mind Of Its Own by akkartik on Sunday December 14, 2008 @05:13PM (#397702)
Yes, the original papers indicate it was in lisp. "Why AM appears to work" suggested that a lot of the reason math was a good domain for discovery was just that lisp is well-suited to the domain. And Eurisko could modify heuristics expressed as s-expressions.

People have asked him, but I'm not aware of Lenat ever commenting on the source code. Cycorp is substantially funded by DARPA, and I wouldn't be surprised if Eurisko is part of its IP now.

Feel free to email me to take this offline.

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