Leslie Valiant's seminal paper on "A theory of the learnable" (1984) as well as E.M. Gold's "Language identification in the limit" (1967). (More information about this mathematical field Computational Learning Theory can be found in this Wikipedia entry.)">Computational Learning Theory (Leslie Valiant's seminal paper on "A theory of the learnable" (1984) as well as E.M. Gold's "Language identification in the limit" (1967). (More information about this mathematical field Computational Learning Theory can be found in this Wikipedia entry.)">COLT) is a research field devoted to studying the design and analysis of algorithms for making predictions about the future based on past experiences. The emphasis in Leslie Valiant's seminal paper on "A theory of the learnable" (1984) as well as E.M. Gold's "Language identification in the limit" (1967). (More information about this mathematical field Computational Learning Theory can be found in this Wikipedia entry.)">COLT is on rigorous mathematical analysis. As a field with roots in theoretical computer science, Leslie Valiant's seminal paper on "A theory of the learnable" (1984) as well as E.M. Gold's "Language identification in the limit" (1967). (More information about this mathematical field Computational Learning Theory can be found in this Wikipedia entry.)">COLT is largely concerned with computational and data efficiency. Much of the work in Leslie Valiant's seminal paper on "A theory of the learnable" (1984) as well as E.M. Gold's "Language identification in the limit" (1967). (More information about this mathematical field Computational Learning Theory can be found in this Wikipedia entry.)">COLT can be traced to Leslie Valiant's seminal paper on "A theory of the learnable" (1984) as well as E.M. Gold's "Language identification in the limit" (1967). (More information about this mathematical field Leslie Valiant's seminal paper on "A theory of the learnable" (1984) as well as E.M. Gold's "Language identification in the limit" (1967). (More information about this mathematical field Computational Learning Theory can be found in this Wikipedia entry.)">Computational Learning Theory can be found in this Wikipedia entry.)