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Grace Hopper was experimenting with symbolic differentiation of functions in her A-2 compiler in the 1950s, and she may well not have been the first. My referen

by rst 6y ago

Grace Hopper was experimenting with symbolic differentiation of functions in her A-2 compiler in the 1950s, and she may well not have been the first. My reference for this is her paper in the proceedings of a 1957 British conference on "Mechanisation of Thought Processes" -- if you set up an account at archive.org, they may let you page through it here: https://archive.org/details/mechanisationoft02nati/page/n9/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/mechanisationoft02nati/page/n9/m...

mkl 6y ago
Not AI, though (or almost every computer program would be "AI"). Differentiation can be done with simple deterministic rule following.
- rst 6y ago
  Earliest reference I'm aware of for integration is James Slagle's MIT Ph.D. thesis work, from 1961. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/11997 https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/11997
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