eurisko

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Eurisko

   <artificial intelligence> A language for "{opportunistic
   programming}" written by {Doug Lenat} in 1978.  Eurisko
   constructs its own methods and modifies its strategies as it
   tries to solve a problem.

   (http://homepages.enterprise.net/hibou/aicourse/lenat.txt).

   [Mentioned by Alan Kay, SIGPLAN Notices 28(3), March 1993,
   p. 88].

   (1994-12-08)