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30 years Back to the Future

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30 years Back to the Future Today I wondered what I was doing 30 years ago? Turns out it was something fairly interesting (today was mundane but interesting - ferrying my younger son up and down Mount Stromlo so he could do multiple downhill rides on a vintage Iron Horse downhill bike). Me? I just drove up and down, enjoyed the view at the top, and ate a donut. 30 years ago I was doing research for a PhD at UNSW in Machine Learning, trying to crack the problem of accurate and efficient machine learning of first-order relational and temporal concepts (still appears to be an open problem). The year, 1987... I had received an invitation (based on submission of an extended abstract) to the Fourth International Workshop on Machine Learning, UCI, Irvine, June 22-25, 1987.  I had to self-fund my trip but decided to attend and explore as much of the USA as I could in a few weeks.  I didn't get to present anything but there were lots of talks and informal seminars to attend to p