From owner-cse575-fa08-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Thu Dec 4 12:49:01 2008 Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 12:48:49 -0500 From: "William J. Rapaport" Subject: 575: Pandemonium To: CSE575-FA08-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Pandemonium ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I very briefly mentioned the Pandemonium program in this morning's class, only to find this email message in my inbox: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Oliver Selfridge > Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 09:01:08 -0800 > From: Carol Hamilton > > From Eric Horvitz: > > We were saddened to hear about Oliver Selfridge's death. Oliver has > been a vibrant and omnipresent member of the AI community--full of > insight and wit. Oliver captured the imagination of AI researchers with > his Pandemonium ideas in the 1950s, on a distributed model for pattern > recognition where a community of computational agents assemble > themselves into networks of activity to perform recognition tasks. > > Our thoughts are with his family. > Eric > >