I'm in grad school for AI right now as a result of reading about Eurisko as a kid. Though I haven't followed up on the greater vision, my thesis proposal a few

I'm in grad school for AI right now as a result of reading about Eurisko as a kid. Though I haven't followed up on the greater vision, my thesis proposal a few years ago pitched the project of building a Eurisko-style discovery system for game design: http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~amsmith/proposal/amsmith-proposal-talk.pdf http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~amsmith/proposal/amsmith-proposal... Also, the fact that I had a good experience playing an "academic" class character in Traveller during college was also an influence in deciding to go to grad school. I haven't seen this class in any other RPG.