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Science 3 April 2009:
Vol. 324. no. 5923, pp. 43 - 44
DOI: 10.1126/science.1172781
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Perspectives

COMPUTER SCIENCE:
Automating Science

David Waltz1 and Bruce G. Buchanan2

Computers with intelligence can design and run experiments, but learning from the results to generate subsequent experiments requires even more intelligence.

1Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia University, New York, NY 10115, USA. E-mail: waltz{at}ccls.columbia.edu

2Computer Science Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA. E-mail: buchanan{at}cs.pitt.edu

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