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K-lines: A Theory of Memory, by Marvin Minsky
WRT: 50 min
There is too much to read, particularly if you are interested in multiple fields. Accordingly, you decide to start a new journal named The MIT Alumni Reader's Electronic Digest, which you expect to go by the The Reader's Digest. The idea is to produce each month, in electronic form, in a section titled Steps toward Visions, a half-dozen or so one-page reviews of articles appearing in Science, Nature, and other top-drawer scientific journals. There is to be a section titled-Hero of the Month, in which a randomly chosen MIT professor identifies a few of his/her favorite classic paper for the one-page treatment.
Curiously, Winston is the first professor randomly selected, and he selects the K-lines paper. Your job is to write the review, duly attending to VSN–C and detail. According to journal policy, you are also to offer your views on who should read the unabridged article and what they would get out of reading that beyond what they get from your summary.