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Douglas Lenat

Douglas B. Lenat is the CEO of Cycorp, Inc. of Austin, Texas, and has been a prominent researcher in Artificial Intelligence, especially machine learning (with his AM and Eurisko[?] programs), knowledge representation, blackboard systems[?], and "ontological engineering" (with his Cyc program at MCC[?] and at Cycorp). He has also worked in military simulations and published a critique of conventional random-mutation Darwinism based on his experience with Eurisko. Lenat was one of the original Fellows of the AAAI[?].

Bogosity is measured in Lenats according to the Jargon File (also known as the Hacker's dictionary).



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