Pat Langley

The original description on Amazon reads like it's describing something that is still going on.

"Using the methods and concepts of contemporary information-processing psychology (or cognitive science) the authors develop a series of artificial-intelligence programs that can simulate the human thought processes used to discover scientific laws. The programs - BACON, DALTON, GLAUBER, and STAHL - are all largely data-driven, that is, when presented with series of chemical or physical measurements they search for uniformities and linking elements, generating and checking hypotheses and creating new concepts as they go along."

I'm not sure that anyone has worked on BACON or any of its related programs in several years. It's a great book, especially if you're just looking for insight into this area of Cognitive Science.

http://www.isle.org/~langley/discovery.html

This page hasn't had an update since 1997. That's a VERY long time ago.… (més)