Richard J WallaceThe author has spent most of the last 50 years working as a research scientist, first in psychology and then in computer science. He is now retired but still actively engaged with the latter fi eld. During the past half century he has made contribution of some significance in areas ranging from animal behavior to artificial intelligence and combinatorial optimization. A major current interest is the application of artificial intelligence techniques to topics of intellectual inquiry and debate in order to raise general standards and weed out bad ideas. In the author's opinion, a prime candidate for such bracing treatment is the area of Shakespeare scholarship, where different camps hold starkly diff rent views on the question of authorship as well as other matters, and where one finds a proliferation of questionable claims and fanciful assertions, some of which, however, may be true. Read More Read Less