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The Meeting of the Minds That Launched AI

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He sent his note to McCarthy, Minsky, Selfridge, Shannon, Solomonoff—and Peter Milner. The author thanks Gloria Minsky, Margaret Minsky, Nicholas Rochester, Julie Sussman, Gerald Jay Sussman, and Paul More for their help and patience. Grace Solomonoff So the unknown person must be Milner!

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How an Electrical Engineer Solved Australia’s Most Famous Cold Case

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My students and I used computational linguistics to identify which of the three authors of The Federalist Papers—Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay—was responsible for any given essay. And yet the attempt to link Thomson to the body petered out. Were they related?

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