By the early 1960s I had a collection of ideas about how intelligence works and I tried to write a book, but I didn’t know enough, so I wrote a rather long paper which was called Steps Towards Artificial Intelligence, but it really was steps towards theories of how thinking works. And it was quite a long essay with sort of six big chapters and each of them suggested a... a couple of areas in which we should do research. Like how do we... how could we understand... how could we make machines that could recognize different kinds of patterns and... and find what’s significant among a... a chain of events or how could we make a machine that could understand the meanings of words or... and things like that. And for the next 10 years or so, we had quite a number of students who evolved different theories about and experiments and computer programs that could do one or another aspect of... of these many different aspects of... of common sense and ordinary thinking.

Now... this continued to develop in many different ways by wonderfully talented young people till... till the middle 1980s and we were having some influence on a... research in a few other universities and laboratories around the world.