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Computing as compression: an overview of the SP theory and system

New Generation Computing 13, 187-214, 1995.

This is an overview or summary of the SP programme of research up to mid-1994. It includes a short review of related research including research on information compression in brains and nervous systems.

Computing as compression: SP20

New Generation Computing 13, 215-241, 1995.

Describes a recent model of the SP system attempting to integrate learning, information retrieval, deductive and probabilistic reasoning, and other kinds of computing within a framework of information compression by PMUS.

Marks articles and conference papers that give the best overall view of the research Computing, cognition and information compression

AI Communications 6(2), 107-127, 1993. PDF.

Describes the background and motivation for the research including long-established ideas about economical coding by brains and nervous systems.

Computing and information compression: a reply

AI Communications 7(3/4), 203-219, 1994. Postscript, Compressed Postscript.

Responds to points made in an earlier critique, and discusses associated issues.

'What is SP?': a reply

Computer Journal 38(3), 253-255, 1995. Postscript, Compressed Postscript.

Responds to a repeat of the earlier critique, and discusses selected issues.

Towards a Theory of Cognition and Computing

Chichester: Ellis Horwood, 1991.

Describes the programme of research up to 1991 including earlier articles on information compression as a mechanism for language learning.

CognitionResearch.org

The SP theory

Cognition

Language Learning