Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) never wrote a comprehensive work in philosophy of education, but he occasionally delivered lectures concerned with educational policy. These incisive talks are collected in his book The Aims of Education and Other Essays. Whitehead and Dewey were contemporaries, and their ideas are in some notable respects similar. Like Dewey, Whitehead stresses the importance...

OF THE DISCUSSION. DB. MARTIN L. HOLBROOK: In listening to the able and interesting lecture of Prof. Cope, I could not help wishing that he had given us more detailed information about the personal life of Mr. Wallace. Knowledge of the personal characteristics of a writer often greatly helps us to an understanding of his thought and to a due appreciation of the value of his opinions. From a fri...

ALFRED 1.0 was a universal interfacing agent that accepted a very small set of English sentences and translated them into commands appropriate for different domains. ALFRED itself had no parsing capacity (parsing was conducted by an outside, off-the-shelf system), and its knowledge of language in general was extremely limited. It basically searched for keywords in an input string and matched th...