Date: Thu, 21 Feb 85 19:51:37 est
From:: Walter Hamscher
To: *mac@mc
Subject: EURISKO Seminar, Continued

TIME: 12 Noon
DATE: Friday
PLACE: 8th Floor Playroom
HOSTS: Michael Caine, Neil Singer, and Kenneth Pasch.
REFRESHMENTS: t

		PLAUSIBLE POSITION GENERATION:
	   THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF EURISKO, PART II

		       Blackstone Le Mot

This talk was to be the second in a series describing the application
of EURISKO, a discovery program, to non-traditional domains.  In this
case the domain was position generation, in which the program is given
some knowledge of geometry, anatomy, and the first 37 pages of the
Kama Sutra.  The talk is canceled, however, because the slides have not
yet been cleared with Dean McBay and the Ad Hoc Committee.  Hence we
instead skip to the third and final talk in this series:

		       TARGET SELECTION:
  	    THE LAST ADVENTURE OF EURISKO, PART III

Traditional strategic thinking, i.e. from Clausewitz to the present day,
emphasises the need to bring maximum destructive force to bear on the
enemy's armed forces and industrial centers to ensure a swift end to
hostilities.  Present day weapons systems have been characterized as
"eggshells armed with hammers," suggesting that in the event of
hostilities, targets must be swiftly chosen, in time-frames requiring
automated response, to avoid the loss of precious megatonnage.  In this
experiment we used EURISKO to choose targets in simulated nuclear exchanges,
with extremely exciting results.