Paul S. Rosenbloom

This collection of papers from the heady days when it seemed that Artificial Intelligence was on the verge of the mainstream is a remarkable history of the progression and development of SOAR. In the early days, it was an acronym (State, Operator And Result), but that use faded away years ago.

I read many of these papers as they were published, and it was remarkable to have all this research gathered up in one easy bundle. It's in chronological format, beginning with Newell's seminal paper in 1968, and ending with papers published in 1990. A few (such as the last one, Attentional Modeling of Object Identification and Search, by Weismeyer and Laird) were extended or updated specifically for this collection.

For further reference, here's the Wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soar_%28cognitive_architecture%29… (mehr)

Highly unusual: extensively uses a semiformal recursive notation for expressing implemented-by (/) and interacts-with () relations among the Physical, Life, Social, and Computing domains of science. E.g., the expression
S/LDelta/C/P{P,C*,S}
turns out to be a possible characterization of smartphones. Simulation and AI are among the myriad of computing-related activities described. "[Mathematics] isn't a great scientific domain on its own, but it is a key analytical component of a domain that is: computing." (p 238) Many hackles in math departments will be raised by that!… (mehr)