My thought, in the spring 1967

Inductive Inference Research Status , Spring 1967

Previously, four theories of inductive inference were proposed, and the present work is concerned with putting these theories on a firmer theoretical footing. The four theories are now found to be effectively equivalent, at varying levels of rigor. It is shown that for sufficiently long sequences of symbols, the theories actually do give the correct probabilities for future symbols. Attempts ar...

On the Tip of My Thought: Playing the Guillotine Game

In this paper we propose a system to solve a language game, called Guillotine, which requires a player with a strong cultural and linguistic background knowledge. The player observes a set of five words, generally unrelated to each other, and in one minute she has to provide a sixth word, semantically connected to the others. Several knowledge sources, such as a dictionary and a set of proverbs...

Dedicated to Lisa The spring of love in my life

My interest in the department of medical education

My interest in the department of medical education started in the year 1955 when about 900 high school graduates in Shiraz, participated in the “Konkoor”, an Iranian University entrance exam. Of these 900 graduates, 42 passed and gained admissions into Shiraz University Medical School and six years later, 32 graduated and received a medical degree from Shiraz University Medical School. I was on...

Comparison of the development of formal thought in adolescent cohorts aged 10 to 15 years (1967-1996 and 1972-1993).

Five standard Piagetian tests were administered to 180 adolescents between the ages of 10 and 15 years. The results were compared with those obtained in 1967 and in 1972 for similar participant samples. At equal ages, today's adolescents exhibited a higher level of cognitive development than the adolescents of 20 or 30 years ago. The amount of gain observed varied across tasks, being very large...