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And Walmart?

• wmf 16y ago
  AFAIK operations research and supply chain management use techniques originating from AI.
  • SeanLuke 16y ago
    The OR folks would say it's the other way around.
  • onan_barbarian 16y ago
    AFAWK (As Far As Wikipedia Knows), operations research as a formal area kicked off in 1937 and had 1000 people working on it in Britain during World War 2. It may in fact be true that some techniques from AI have cross-fertilized but the credibility of the claim that "we owe operations research and supply chain management to AI" is very low. What's next: Minsky traveled back in time in a LISP Machine and impregnated the Rev. Bayes' mother? I'm willing to give 'em Prolog (take it, please!) but the confluence of FP and AI might owe more to the fact that AI (especially 'strong AI') was considered a Big Deal early on in computing and as such, ideas that were invented/used contemporaneously tend to be associated with AI.