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TABLE OF CONTENTS

[author : Robert Jay Brown]

The greatest challenge in artificial intelligence is the learning problem: how to make programs that can learn from experience. One paradigm that shows promise is the neural network approach, which is both a natural approach to the learning problem and a radical departure in thinking about programming.

[author : Richard W. Grigonis]

How to build a backward-chaining expert system without an "AI language."

[author : Dan L Pierson]

Dan compares four PROLOG packages for the Mac and describes various dialects and features of the language.

[author : Allen Holub]

Allen describes some of the features of his nroff-like text editor, nr. In the Flotsam and Jetsam section, he presents a solution to the problem of managing globals in large C programs.

[author : Michael Ham]

Michael talks about people skills for programmers and discusses a solution to the common problem of collecting a number from the keyboard.

[author : Ernest R. Tello]

Ernie takes a look at the features of three object-oriented extensions to common LISP and proposes a language standard based on these features.

[author : Nick Turner]

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[author : Allen Holub]

[author : Michael Swaine]

A look at efficient subroutines in the new BASICs

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