Author: SRI International

  • Artificial Intelligence – Research and Applications

    Our research program concentrates especially on the development of systems that can automatically generate and execute complex plans and that can obtain information about their environment through the sense of vision.

  • Performance Grammars

    Evidence is offered that linguistic competence cannot in principle be divorced from linguistic performance in order to abstract universal properties of grammars, that rules of grammar inevitably incorporate perceptual strategies and constraints, and that grammaticality and acceptability are related to predictability.

  • SRI Speech Understanding System

    The system is distinctive in the way that knowledge of various sources is coordinated by a “best-first” parser to predict the sequence of words in an utterance, and in the use of word functions–programs that represent the acoustic characteristics of a word–to test the predictions.

  • A Best-First Parser

    The parser uses a best-first strategy in which alternative paths are assigned priorities and paths are suspended as long as there is a higher priority alternative to explore.

  • Object Recognition in Multisensory Scene Analysis

    A perception strategy for recognizing an object on the basis of color and range data is illustrated by finding a desk in an office scene.

  • Ethernet

    Ethernet

    An internal memo at PARC, now part of SRI, proposed a system of linking workstations, files, and printers together using a coaxial cable within a local area network.

  • Alto PC

    Alto PC

    The Alto personal workstation was created at PARC, which is now part of SRI.

  • Equipment for Artificial Intelligence Research

    We have identified in broad outline an equipment configuration that we feel will be highly flexible and useful for research. SRI proposes a two-year program to design, fabricate, and test a prototype system consisting of the vehicle, arm, and vision system.

  • Preliminary QLISP Manual

    A preliminary version of QLISP is described. QLISP permits free intermingling of QA4-like constructs with INTERLISP code. The preliminary version contains features similar to those of QA4 except for the backtracking of control environments.

  • Pajaro Dunes Workshop on Automatic Problem Solving

    This report describes the talks and discussions occurring at an informal Workshop on Automatic Problem Solving held at Pajaro Dunes, CA, on May 14-16, 1973.

  • Artificial Intelligence

    This paper describes current progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) with emphasis is given to describing it as an independent field of study having both applied-technological and scientific-theoretical branches.

  • Study of Equipment Needs for Artificial Intelligence Research

    This report describes interim results of a project to specify special equipment for research in Artificial Intelligence. After surveying several potential users it was decided that there was a need for standardized equipment for robot research.