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"Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers."
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"I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years."
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