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title: "Retrieving Information from an Episodic Memory, or Why Computers' Memories Should Be More Like People's"
authors:
  - "Roger C. Schank"
  - "Janet L. Kolodner"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/168"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/0168.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1979
pages: ""
track: ""
keywords:
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# Retrieving Information from an Episodic Memory, or Why Computers' Memories Should Be More Like People's

Roger C. Schank, Janet L. Kolodner

*Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*.

## Abstract

A computer memory organization modeled after human memory is proposed, along with strategies for accessing that memory. CYRUS, a program which implements the theory, is described.