Roger Schank

The terms 'neat' and 'scruffy' describe two contrasting approaches to AI research, originating in the 1970s with Roger Schank. Neats use a single formal paradigm like logic or neural networks and veri…

Olin Shivers recounts the history of T, a Lisp implementation developed at Yale in the early 1980s by Jonathan Rees, Dan Weld, and himself, which set a standard for clean design. The project emerged f…