AM

1. communications Amplitude Modulation.

2. artificial intelligence A program by Doug Lenat to

discover concepts in elementary mathematics. AM was written

in 1976 in Interlisp. From 100 fundamental concepts and

about 250 heuristics it discovered several important

mathematical concepts including subsets, disjoint sets, sets

with the same number of elements, and numbers. It worked by

filling slots in frames maintaining an agenda of

resource-limited prioritised tasks.

AM's successor was Eurisko.

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(1999-04-19)