Eurisko
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Eurisko (Gr., I discover) is a program written by Doug Lenat at MIT in 1978. It consists of heuristics, i.e. rules of thumb, including heuristics describing how to use and change its heuristics. It was applied to a number of domains with surprising success. See Chapter 5 of Eric Drexler's Engines of Creation (http://www.foresight.org/EOC/EOC_Chapter_5.html#section03of06) for more about Eurisko.
Further reading
- Lenat, D. B. (1983). "EURISKO: A program that learns new heuristics and domain concepts." Artificial Intelligence 21, pp. 61-98.
- Lenat, D. B., and Brown, J. S. (1984). "Why AM and EURISKO appear to work." Artificial Intelligence 23(3):269--294.