Talk:DAYDREAMER
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[edit]Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: Mueller, Erik T. (1990). Daydreaming in humans and machines. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you. Voceditenore (talk) 12:55, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
Wiki Education assignment: Computation, Culture, and Society
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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 25 March 2026 and 3 June 2026. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Discooc (article contribs).
— Assignment last updated by Brianda (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:21, 3 June 2026 (UTC)
May 2026 Major Edits
[edit]Hello, I'm a first-time Wiki editor, and I have just published am expansion of this article as part of a course assignment for Computation, Culture, and Society at the University of Chicago. The previous version was a short stub, and I have expanded it to include a rewritten lead, an expanded History section, a new Architecture section with three subsections, a new Sample output section, and a new Reception and influence section.
My reasoning for these changes:
- The original lead did not describe what the program actually does i.e. summarize its input/output behavior, its components, or the fact that the source code is now publicly available under a free software license.
- The original History section was a single sentence and did not include facts about the program's development.
- The article previously contained no description of the system's architecture, despite this being the primary subject of the published academic literature on DAYDREAMER.
- The new Architecture section is from Mueller & Dyer's 1985 IJCAI and Cognitive Science Society papers, which describe the system's components in detail.
- I added a Sample output section describing the output trace from the released source code on Github.
- I added a Reception and influence section citing four secondary sources that discuss DAYDREAMER in the context of later work
- I removed an unsourced sentence about ThoughtTreasure since it was not supported by any of the sources I could verify
A draft of the full changes is available on my user page at User:Discooc. These changes were also peer reviewed by three other student contributors and can be found on my user talk page User talk:Discooc. Discooc (talk) 20:24, 29 May 2026 (UTC)