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Toward memory-based reasoning
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Volume 29 ,  Issue 12  (December 1986) table of contents
Special issue on parallelism
Pages: 1213 - 1228  
Year of Publication: 1986
ISSN:0001-0782
Authors
Craig Stanfill  Thinking Machine Corporation, Cambridge, MA
David Waltz  Thinking Machine Corporation, Cambridge, MA
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

The intensive use of memory to recall specific episodes from the past—rather than rules—should be the foundation of machine reasoning.


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