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  1. 1959

    Some Studies in Machine Learning Using the Game of Checkers

    IJRD

    A. L. Samuel's 1959 paper reporting experiments in which a checkers program, given only the rules of the game and an imperfect set of parameters, learned in 8 to 10 hours of playing time to beat the person who wrote it.

    Research historyScienceSymbolic AI

  2. 1948

    A Mathematical Theory of Communication

    Bell System Technical Journal 27

    C. E. Shannon's 1948 paper set out a mathematical framework for communication, defining information in bits, channel capacity, and entropy, and treating messages statistically while setting aside semantic meaning.

    Research historyData & datasetsScience