Publications
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Artificial Intelligence, Employment, and Income
Some claim that AI is not really very different from other technologies that have supported automation and increased productivity–technologies such as mechanical engineering, electronics, control engineering, and operations research.
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A Formal Theory Of Knowledge and Action
Most work on planning and problem solving within the field of artificial intelligence assumes that the agent has complete knowledge of all relevant aspects of the problem domain and problem…
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Some Remarks on the Semantics of Representation Languages
It has been said many times that semantic nets are mere notational variants of predicate calculus. But before we lay down our nets, we ought at least to be clear…
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The DARPA / DMA Image Understanding Testbed Programmer’s Manual
The primary purpose of the Image Understanding (IU) Testbed is to provide a means for transferring technology from the DARPA-sponsored IU research program to DMA and other organizations in the…
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Computer-Assisted Three-Dimensional and Two-Dimensional Reconstructions of Autoradiographic Images of the Cerebral Cortex
This report describes a computer system that generates reconstructions of film autoradiographs of the cerebral cortex.
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The SRI Artificial Intelligence Center: A Brief History
A group that ultimately grew into a major world center of artificial intelligence research, a center that has endured twenty-five years of boom and bust in fashion, has "graduated" over…
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Choosing A Basis For Perceptual Space
If it is possible to interpret an image as a projection of rectangular forms, there is a strong tendency for people to do so. In effect, a mathematical basis for…
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Evidential Reasoning: An Implementation For Multisensor Integration
Perceptual information is not readily captured in terms of simple truths and falsities or in terms of probabilistic estimates, when the appropriate statistical data are lacking.
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Transportability and Generality In A Natural-Language Interface System
This paper describes the design of a transportable natural language (NL) interface to databases and the constraints that transportability places on each components of such a system.
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Direct Parsing Of Id/Lp Grammars
We develop a parsing algorithm, based on the algorithm of Earley, for parsing ID/LP grammars directly, circumventing the initial expansion phase. We also discuss some aspects of the time complexity…
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Some Remarks on the Place of Logic in Knowledge Representation
What is the place of logic in knowledge representation? It is argued that the answer to this question depends on what one means by logic.
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An Abstract Prolog Instruction Set
This report describes an abstract Prolog instruction set suitable for software, firmware, or hardware implementation. The instruction set is abstract in that certain details of its encoding and implementation are…