Edinburgh University's AI dept's legendary founder Donald Michie ( & close wartime friend of Turing) built a computer out of matchboxes that learns to play Tic

Edinburgh University's AI dept's legendary founder Donald Michie ( & close wartime friend of Turing) built a computer out of matchboxes that learns to play Tic Tac Toe. http://makezine.com/2009/11/02/mechanical-tic-tac-toe-computer/ http://makezine.com/2009/11/02/mechanical-tic-tac-toe-comput... Michie is arguably the grandfather of reinforcement learning.