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KidSim: programming agents without a programming language

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 37 , Issue 7 (July 1994) table of contents

Pages: 54 - 67

Year of Publication: 1994

ISSN:0001-0782

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David Canfield Smith	Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA
Allen Cypher	Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA
Jim Spohrer	Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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