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'''Church''' refers to both a family of [[LISP]]-like ''[[probabilistic programming]] languages''<ref>{{cite web | url=http://probabilistic-programming.org | title=Probabilistic Programming wiki | access-date=2020-07-22 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081118165403/http://probabilistic-programming.org/ | archive-date=2008-11-18 | url-status=dead }}</ref> for specifying arbitrary [[probabilistic]] [[Computer program|programs]], as well as a set of [[algorithms]] for performing probabilistic [[inference]] in the [[generative model]]s those programs define.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://projects.csail.mit.edu/church/wiki/Church | title=MIT Church wiki | publisher=csail.mit.edu}}</ref> Church was originally developed at [[MIT]], primarily in the computational cognitive science group, run by [[Joshua Tenenbaum]].<ref>

'''Church''' refers to both a family of [[LISP]]-like ''probabilistic programming languages''<ref>{{cite web | url=http://probabilistic-programming.org | title=Probabilistic Programming wiki }}</ref> for specifying arbitrary [[probabilistic]] [[Computer program|programs]], as well as a set of [[algorithms]] for performing probabilistic [[inference]] in the [[generative model]]s those programs define.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://projects.csail.mit.edu/church/wiki/Church | title=MIT Church wiki | publisher=csail.mit.edu}}</ref> Church was originally developed at [[MIT]], primarily in the computational cognitive science group, run by [[Joshua Tenenbaum]].<ref>

{{cite journal | last1 = Goodman | first1=Noah

| last2=Mansinghka | first2=Vikash

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[[Category:Nondeterministic programming languages]]

[[Category:Probabilistic software]]

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