Tag: Macintosh

Artificial Intelligence: What Every Mac Programmer Should Know

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Posted by: A.P.P.L.E. Date: March 3, 1989
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by Anna O’Connell, P.E.MacTech QuarterlySpring 1989 – Page 10 “Artificial intelligence,” depending on how you look at it, is a set of useful tools for building smarter, more powerful applications, or a philosophical concept that threatens humanity, or simply an oxymoron. In this article, Anna O’Connell examines the plethora of AI languages and development platforms that have been introduced for the Macintosh in the past two years, and discusses how AI techniques can be employed to build more intuitive, easier-to-use…

So What’s Half A Decade

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Posted by: A.P.P.L.E. Date: March 1, 1989
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By Andrew Himes, EditorMac Tech QuarterlySpring 1989 – Page 9 Things didn’t used to be this way. It used to be you could sit on the front porch in the hot summer sun, sip an ice tea with a mint leaf and a lemon slice in it, and watch the process of technological change as it flowed slowly past your house. Nothing happened too fast. If something was true in your grandmother’s day, it was probably true in your day,…