Programs with Common Sense

John McCarthy's 1959 paper proposing the 'advice taker', a program that would decide what to do by deducing it from facts and rules stated in formal logic; the founding statement of logic-based knowledge representation.

Read the paper ↗ www-formal.stanford.edu

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• John McCarthy person 1927–2011 [src]