🧑‍🔬 Steven Minton

🏛️ Affiliations

🏢InferLinkEl Segundo · United States2011–2026 · 20 papersEmployment · Presidentcurrent🎓Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh · United States1981–2018 · 25 papersEducation 1981–1988 · Ph.D., Computer Science🎓University of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles · United States1996–2006 · 17 papersEmployment until 1999 · Research Associate Professor, Computer Science/Information Sci. Inst.🔬Ames Research CenterMountain View · United States1988–2002 · 17 papersEmployment 1988–1995🎓University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia · United States2009–2014 · 2 papers

🏛️Fetch TechnologiesEl Segundo · United States2011Employment until 2011 · CTO, CEO, Chairman

🏛️NASA Ames Research CenterMoffett Field · United States1988–1995Employment 1988–1995 · PI, Artificial Intelligence Division

🎓Yale UniversityNew Haven · United States1980Education until 1980 · BA

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed.

🧭 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📅 Works by year

1980s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. Quantitative Results Concerning the Utility of Explanation-Based Learning (1988 · 374 citations)
   Explanation-based learning (EBL) can derive search control knowledge for domain-independent problem solvers such as planners.
2. Selectively Generalizing Plans for Problem-Solving (1985 · 160 citations)
   Systems that store generalized plans (macro-operators), as STRIPS did with Macrops, risk being overwhelmed by their own experience.

All works

9 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. Quantitative Results Concerning the Utility of Explanation-Based LearningArtificial IntelligenceSteven Minton1988 · 374 citations
2. PRODIGY ↗ACM SIGART Bulletin · no summary yetJaime Carbonell et al.1991 · 232 citations
3. Explanation-based learning: A problem solving perspective ↗Artificial Intelligence · no summary yetSteven Minton et al.1989 · 229 citations
4. Selectively Generalizing Plans for Problem-SolvingInternational Joint Conference on Artificial IntelligenceSteven Minton1985 · 160 citations
5. PRODIGY4.0: The Manual and Tutorial ↗no summary yetJaime G. Carbonell et al.1992 · 140 citations
6. Acquiring Effective Search Control Rules: Explanation-Based Learning in the PRODIGY System ↗Elsevier eBooks · no summary yetSteven Minton et al.1987 · 56 citations
7. Integrating Abstraction and Explanation-Based Learning in PRODIGY ↗AAAI 1991 · no summary yetCraig A. Knoblock, Steven Minton, Oren Etzioni1991 · 43 citations
8. Why EBL Produces Overly-Specific Knowledge: A Critique of the PRODIGY Approaches ↗Elsevier eBooks · no summary yetOren Etzioni, Steven Minton1992 · 22 citations
9. Planning and Learning in PRODIGY: Overview of an Integrated Architecture ↗The MIT Press eBooks · no summary yetJaime Carbonell et al.1995 · 3 citations

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

• Artificial Intelligence ×2: Artificial Intelligence 1988
• Elsevier eBooks ×2
• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 1985
• AAAI 1991
• ACM SIGART Bulletin
• The MIT Press eBooks

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 19 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 2 citing papers with a page here →.

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