Author: Dan Andersson
Date: 19:38:16 11/15/01
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Without trying I found two factual errors. In the section alpha-beta, it propagated the idea that Newell, Shaw and Simon discovered Alpha-Beta pruning. Noone really know because their papere is severely deficient and the pruning described is not full A-B. And then it goes on to say that they called it Alpha-Beta pruning. That term was coined by John McCarthy, who is the person first known to have articulated the idea. Samuels claims tho have found the idea too. Considering these fairly basic errors, how much fait can one have in the rest of the article? MvH Dan Andersson
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