Shimon Edelman was an electrical engineer until the early 1980s, when he read G?del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. Even today, Douglas Hofstadter's Pulitzer Prize-winning examination of mathematical patterns in human cognition is still a recruiting manual for those who would pursue artificial intelligence (AI) research.
Index Terms:
artificial intelligence, software
Citation:
Pam Frost Gorder, "En Route to Artificial Intelligence, Software Learns Language," Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 4-7, Jan./Feb. 2006, doi:10.1109/MCSE.2006.5