On Thu, 12 May 2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
Does anyone know where the term "Koan"
originates?
In the computer context, at MIT, as described in the jargon file:
http://www.pmms.cam.ac.uk/~gjm11/jargon/jargappA.html
(scroll down to "AI KOAN")
One for a computer, in SCHEME:
http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/users/dae/notes/scheme-koan