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Background
Computing as compression: an overview of the SP theory and system
New Generation Computing 13, 187-214, 1995.
This is an overview or summary of the SP programme of research up to mid-1994. It includes a short review of related research including research on information compression in brains and nervous systems.
Computing as compression: SP20
New Generation Computing 13, 215-241, 1995.
Describes a recent model of the SP system attempting to integrate learning, information retrieval, deductive and probabilistic reasoning, and other kinds of computing within a framework of information compression by PMUS.
Computing, cognition and information compression
AI Communications 6(2), 107-127, 1993. Postscript (GIF files: Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3, Figure 4), Compressed Postscript, HTML.
Describes the background and motivation for the research including long-established ideas about economical coding by brains and nervous systems.
Computing and information compression: a reply
AI Communications 7(3/4), 203-219, 1994. Postscript, Compressed Postscript.
Responds to points made in an earlier critique, and discusses associated issues.
'What is SP?': a reply
Computer Journal 38(3), 253-255, 1995. Postscript, Compressed Postscript.
Responds to a repeat of the earlier critique, and discusses selected issues.
Towards a Theory of Cognition and Computing
Chichester: Ellis Horwood, 1991.
Describes the programme of research up to 1991 including earlier articles on information compression as a mechanism for language learning.