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	William of Occam. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A Franciscan, Occam studied and taught at Oxford from c.1310 until 1324, when he was summoned to the papal court at Avignon to answer charges of heresy in his writings.
		He is thought to have died in the fl plague that swept Europe in the middle of the 14th cent.
		Occam’s teachings mark an important break with previous medieval philosophy, especially with the Aristotelian realism of St. Thomas Aquinas.
	www.bartleby.com /65/wm/WmOcm.html (340 words)

	Occam's Razor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Occam's Razor (also spelled Ockham's Razor), is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar, William of Ockham.
		Occam's Razor is known by several different names including the Principle of Parsimony, the Principle of Simplicity, and the Principle of Economy.
		There are various papers in scholarly journals deriving versions of Occam's Razor from probability theory and applying it in statistical inference, and also of various criteria for penalizing complexity in statistical inference.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Occam's_Razor (4126 words)

	Occam's Razor - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Occam's Razor (also Ockham's Razor or any of several other spellings), is a principle attributed to the 14th century English logician and Franciscan friar, William of Ockham that forms the basis of methodological reductionism, also called the principle of parsimony.
		Occam's Razor was essentially a conviction that natural science (as seen in the works of Aristotle) and theology must split and go in different directions.
		Occam said such a construct was impossible and that the study of the natural world, and the study of theology must split.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Occam%27s_Razor (3604 words)

	Occam programming language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Occam 2.1 is a second enhancement to occam, produced in 1988 by INMOS Ltd. It was the last of the series language developments contributed by INMOS.
		The Occam 3 specification is available, but no compiler was created for this variant of the language, partly due to problems within INMOS and its subsequent takeover.
		Occam 2.5 is the common name for the language compiled by the Kent Retargettable Occam compiler KRoC.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Occam_programming_language (684 words)

	WoTUG - Occam Language
		Occam is a parallel processing language designed by a team at INMOS in conjunction with the design of the transputer processor, and based on T. Hoare's ideas of CSP.
		A detailed specification for occam 3 predates occam version 2.1, but the language has never beein implemented, and indeed it is unlikely to be implemented in that form, as experience has shown up better alternatives to some of the problems the language addressed.
		The libraries themselves are distrbuted with the INMOS occam compiler, obtainable in the tds3 source and with the Linux source versions of KRoC.
	www.wotug.org /occam (541 words)

	Occam's Razor -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A re-statement of Occam's Razor, in more formal terms, is provided by ((computer science) a statistical theory dealing with the limits and efficiency of information processing) information theory in the form of (Click link for more info and facts about minimum message length) minimum message length.
		Occam's Razor has become a basic perspective for those who follow the (A method of investigation involving observation and theory to test scientific hypotheses) scientific method.
		There are various papers in scholarly journals deriving versions of Occam's Razor from (The branch of applied mathematics that deals with probabilities) probability theory and applying it in (Click link for more info and facts about statistical inference) statistical inference, and also of various criteria for penalizing complexity in statistical inference.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/O/Oc/Occams_razor.htm (4484 words)

	Clavius: Conspiracy - occam's razor
		Named after the 14th century logician William of Occam, it is the principle which favors the least complicated of two or more possible explanations for an observation.
		In practice, Occam's Razor is used to cut away elements of theories which cannot be observed.
		Occam's Razor clearly requires us to eliminate candidate explanations which imply the existence of unobserved phenomenon.
	www.clavius.org /occam.html (462 words)

	Occam's razor
		What is known as Occam's razor was a common principle in medieval philosophy and was not originated by William, but because of his frequent usage of the principle, his name has become indelibly attached to it.
		For example, atheists often apply Occam's razor in arguing against the existence of God on the grounds that God is an unnecessary hypothesis.
		On the other hand, if Occam's razor means that when confronted with two explanations, an implausible one and a probable one, a rational person should select the probable one, then the principle seems unnecessary because so obvious.
	skepdic.com /occam.html (1163 words)

	Introduction
		Occam's razor was originally intended as a basis for determining one's ontology.
		The modern interpretation of Occam's razor has been characterized as ``of two hypotheses H and H, both of which explain E, the simpler is to be preferred'' [Good, 1977].
		Blumer, Ehrenfeucht, Haussler, and Warmuth [1987] suggest that to wield Occam's razor is to adopt the goal of discovering ``the simplest hypothesis that is consistent with the sample data'' with the expectation that the simplest hypothesis will ``perform well on further observations taken from the same source''.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs/project/jair/pub/volume4/webb96a-html/node1.html (839 words)

	Occam's Razor
		This principle became known as Occam's (or Ockham's) Razor or the law of parsimony.
		Occam's Razor would say that given the lack of evidence for flying saucers and the complexity involved in getting UFOs from distant galaxies to arrive on earth (unseen and traveling faster than the speed of light I suppose) the second interpretation is simplest.
		As it turns out, Occam's Razor was right as two people admitted to making the original crop figures in the 1990s (and the rest have apparently been created by copy-cats).
	www.2think.org /occams_razor.shtml (403 words)

	Fluble's Cast-O-Matic Presents: OCCAM
		As a hallucination, Occam wouldn't be nearly as much of a pain in the ass if he didn't insist on being real so much of the time.
		Occam's motives for such malice seem nonexistent; he seems to simply exist to goad Fluble towards ever more spectacular incidents of failure and self-destruction.
		Incidentally, Occam has stated for the record that he owns no razors whatsoever, that he hasn't shaved in years, and that the most convoluted explanation is always the correct one.
	www.fluble.com /characters/cast/occam.html (398 words)

	Occam's Razor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Occam's razor is often justified on the grounds that our world is simple, as proved by fundamental physics.
		Equally often, Occam is declared wrong on the grounds that there is complexity in the world, for instance in biology.
		In this case, a falsificationist application of Occam's razor requires that we accept the straight line as a working hypothesis, extrapolate from it, and test its predictions; it does not require accepting the straight line uncritically.
	www.diku.dk /users/aecp/Papers/occam.html (353 words)

	Occam's Razor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But Occam says that if you insist it could be the milk fairy, you have invented an unnecessary entity.
		Occam can be applied to a myriad of supposed paranormal events, including ghosts, psychics, UFOs, people who talk with the dead, reincarnation, the soul, spoon benders, near death and out of body experiences.
		Usually, the paranormal explanation for these phenomena cannot be disproven, and this is often given as the reason we should consider the paranormal explanation.
	www.skepticreport.com /tools/occamsrazor.htm (415 words)

	Occam's Razor
		Occam's razor is a logical principle attributed to the mediaeval philosopher
		In any given model, Occam's razor helps us to "shave off" those concepts, variables or constructs that are not really needed to explain the phenomenon.
		Occam's razor is especially important for universal models such as the ones developed in General Systems Theory, mathematics or philosophy, because there the subject domain is of an unlimited complexity.
	pespmc1.vub.ac.be /OCCAMRAZ.html (484 words)

	OCCAM Home Page
		The OCCAM project has developed several high resolution models of the World Ocean - including the Arctic Ocean and marginal seas such as the Mediterranean.
		OCCAM is a primitive equation numerical model of the global ocean.
		OCCAM is partly funded as a core activity of the James Rennell Division for Ocean Circulation and Climate.
	www.soc.soton.ac.uk /JRD/OCCAM (1122 words)

	NIPS 2001 workshop: "Foundation of Occam's razor"
		Occam's razor is generally interpreted as counselling the use of "simpler" models rather than complex ones, fewer parameters rather than more, and "smoother" generalizers rather than those that are less smooth.
		Moreover, in pattern classification, a version of Occam's razor can be justified by the hypothesis that more training data does not decrease the performance of the resulting classifier.
		The only useful interpretation of Occam's razor as a universal principle (as opposed to a domain-specific heuristic) is that simpler models should be preferred because they are more comprehensible to people.
	rii.ricoh.com /~stork/OccamWorkshop.html (2459 words)

	OCCAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Occam archive contains information relevant to the occam programming language and is available via anonymous FTP with an index.
		A list of books on occam and contact information for the Occam User Group (OUG) are available.
		KROC is a development of the "Occam For All" EPSRC project at the University of Kent at Canterbury and the University of Keele.
	www.y-net.gr /hpcn/english/occam.htm (241 words)

	Occam Systems Ltd - Software that manages residential and hospitality services
		Occam's news letter is for all existing or potential clients.
		Occam develops and supplies software that manages residential and hospitality services for the student, NHS and key-worker markets.
		With rapid advances in technology, Occam with its philosophy of total solutions with total support offers all customers the security and protection of their investment, and continuity in tandem with dynamic software developments.
	www.occam.co.uk (308 words)

	occam To Modula-3 Dissertation
		occam was developed with a minimalist approach that avoids unnecessary duplication of language constructs and as such was named after the 14th century philosopher William of Occam, who proposed entities should not be duplicated beyond necessity.
		As mentioned in the introduction, in occam all statements are processes and the simplest ones are of assignment, input and output.
		Occam is used for parallel algorithms that exploit a multiprocessor environment as well as for applications dealing with concurrent objects in an environment.
	freespace.virgin.net /martin.mamo/dissert.html (10370 words)

	occam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Occam language may be used to program a network of computers.
		An Occam program can run on a network of computers or on a single computer.
		Occam does not require a global sense of time for correct program operation.
	www.sunderland.ac.uk /~ts0jti/text_archive/occam.htm (453 words)

	Occam
		The user can specify the information she is interesting in as a database query and Occam will try its best to use its knowledge about various information site to derive suitable action sequence to obtain the information.
		Occam is different from many other similar projects in many ways.
		Occam is designed to be small, efficient and distributed, so that eventually it can reside on the web as a
	www.cs.washington.edu /ai/occam.html (138 words)

	occam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Occam is a programming language developed by INMOS for use with their transputers.
		An occam program can be mapped on to any number of transputers, which can run in parallel and communicate by exchanging messages.
		Occam is not a free format language, indentation indicates components.
	www.personal.rdg.ac.uk /~ssswills/occam.html (357 words)

	Papers on the 3x + 1 / 3n + 1 Problem, Fermat's Last Theorem, and other Mathematical Problems
		Occam Press is a small publisher located in Berkeley, CA.
		The point of departure of Peter Schorer's paper, "Occam's Razor and Program Proof By Test," is the following question: suppose we have two computer programs, one long and one short (where "long" and "short" refer to the number of instructions in each program), and both programs test correct for some finite number of inputs.
		The principle of intellectual economy known as "Occam's Razor" says that the shorter program is more likely to be correct for all inputs.
	www.occampress.com (2603 words)

	Mantissa Consulting
		OCCAM will be integrated with Healthinc's other core products to enable Radiology Workflow to be streamlined and efficient.
		OCCAM RIS will still be offered as a stand-alone product.
		The new system (called OCCAM) was released in late 2003 and is running in dozens of private practices and hospital sites right across Australia.
	mantissaconsulting.com.au (141 words)

	What is Occam's Razor?
		Occam's (or Ockham's) razor is a principle attributed to the 14th century logician and Franciscan friar; William of Occam.
		It is ironic that while applying the principle of economy to throw out the concept of the ether and an absolute rest frame, Einstein published almost simultaneously a paper on Brownian motion which confirmed the reality of molecules and thus dealt a blow against the use of positivism.
		Occam's razor is often cited in stronger forms than Occam intended, as in the following statements.
	math.ucr.edu /home/baez/physics/General/occam.html (1177 words)

	Occam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The file Occam is a tar file of the Common Lisp Source code for OCCAM LITE, a simplified version of the OCCAM program.
		OCCAM acquires causal and social knowledge by empirical techniques by exploiting inter-example and intra-example relationships.
		OCCAM is unique among explanation-based learning systems in that it has the ability to acquire, with empirical techniques, the background knowledge needed for explanation-based learning.
	www.ics.uci.edu /~mlearn/Occam.html (199 words)

	occam - what is it? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Two versions of the language occam and occam2 have been produced so far with occam3 in the pipeline.
		A portable and free occam compiler called SPOC has recently been released by the University of Southampton and other compilers are in progress.
		Professor C. Hoare FRS is a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) and a mathematician and is a consultant for Oxford Parallel and the Programming Research Group (PRG) at Oxford University, UK.
	wotug.ukc.ac.uk /parallel/www/occam/occam.html (176 words)

	OCCAM - Definition
		The occam language was designed by David May of INMOS to easily describe concurrent processes which communicate via one-way channels.
		The basic entity in occam is the process of which there are four fundamental types, assignment, input, output, and wait.
		The original occam is now known as "occam 1".
	www.hyperdictionary.com /computing/occam (177 words)

	into the wibble [occam tutorial]
		The occam language, named after the 14th century Oxford philosopher William of Ockham, is a simple language for the construction of parallel (or sequential) programs.
		Occam requires that expressions are non-side-effecting, ie, they don't modify the state of anything outside themselves.
		Occam allows a function to return any number of results (except zero), whereas C and Java only allow one.
	frmb.org /occtutor.html (3375 words)

	William of Occam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This led him to hold that logic can be studied outside the province of metaphysics, a position that proved important in the development of scientific enquiry.
		In logic, Occam is remembered for his use of the principle of parsimony, formulated as "Occam's razor," which enjoined economy in explanation with the axiom "It is vain to do with more what can be done with less."
		In any given model Occam's razor helps us to "cut away" those concepts, variables or constructs that are not really needed to explain the phenomenon.
	paedpsych.jk.uni-linz.ac.at /INTERNET/ARBEITSBLAETTERORD/PHILOSOPHIEORD/Occam.html (739 words)

	occam
		CSP (communicating sequential processes) is a process algebra from which the occam language is derived.
		The syntax of the occam language tends to put people off a bit, as it insists on compulsary indentation.
		In terms of occam processes, there are a bunch of basic things, 6 "starloop" processes and a farm of 512 "starfall" processes.
	frmb.org /occam-plain.html (2366 words)

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