Date: Thu, 14 Feb 85 11:23:57 est
From:: Walter Hamscher
To: *mac@mc
Subject: Graduate Student Lunch
TIME: 12 Noon DATE: Friday PLACE: 8th Floor Playroom HOSTS: Mark Tuttle and Sathya Narayanan REFRESHMENTS: t PLAUSIBLE HAIRSTYLE GENERATION: THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF EURISKO, PART I Blackstone Le Mot As AI programs have been reported more widely in the popular media, they have been called upon to perform tasks that have heretofore gone unnoticed by AI researchers. Proper hair care is one of these tasks. In this talk I will discuss the application of EURISKO to developing healthy hair and attractive styling. Remarkably enough, the program itself has modified itself to represent characteristics of the domain, by developing hair in its control structure and a significant bald spot in its documentation. But it looooks maaaahvelous!