"It was built to partly prove theorems, which is one of the jobs that AI does. [inaudible word] emission, theorem prov…"

"Partly, but partly to see how far we could go with automating the proof of mathematical theorems. That was the intent."

"Yes, that's fair enough. It's not really what I said, though. I mean my goals were independent of the name. I wouldn'…"

"We proved — in the stand-alone mode with heuristics — we proved limit theorems of calculus and that's a good sample"

"No, other AI people who weren't working on theorem provers in particular. I don't know if I can give a lot of referen…"

"Heuristics are ad hoc. They tend [correct word?], you fix up the heuristics for limit theorems. Now when you go to al…"

"You get a very special purpose prover that uses heuristics, then they stop at the boundary where they can't work anym…"

"I don't think it's too hard in any particular area, although I think people are a little surprised how easy it was in…"

"Rule 1 of cryptanalysis: check for plaintext."

"Never underestimate the attention, risk, money, and time that an opponent will put into reading traffic."