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Tom Mitchell | Stanford Digital Economy Lab | Carnegie Mellon University · 14 episodes with transcripts

Tom Mitchell literally wrote the book on machine learning. In this series of candid conversations with his fellow pioneers, Tom traces the history of the field through the people who built it. Behind the tech are stories of passion, curiosity, and humanity.

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From Philosophy to Machine Learning with Bruce Buchanan

May 18, 2026

Tom Mitchell (0:00)

Welcome to Machine Learning How Did We Get Here? I'm Tom Mitchell, your podcast host. Today's episode is Conversation with Bruce Buchanan, a philosopher turned machine learning researcher, who was responsible for a major milestone of machine learning advance in the 1970s. Bruce developed a symbolic learning program…

I hope you enjoy this conversation with my Ph.D. advisor, Bruce Buchanan.

Bruce Buchanan (1:39)

Thank you, Tom.

Tom Mitchell (1:40)

Let me just start by asking you about Mededendron. I should probably point out for the audience that Bruce was also my PhD advisor at Stanford University when I was PhD student in the 1970s. I was attracted to work with Bruce because he was working on a machine learning project which he called Mededendron.

Maybe first, Bruce, you could give us a very quick brief of what the Mededendron program itself did.

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