AI Working Papers (1971 - 1995): Recent submissions

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    • The Disciplined Use of Simplifying Assumptions 

      Rich, Charles; Waters, Richard C. (MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1981-12)
      Simplifying assumptions — everyone uses them but no one's programming tool explicitly supports them. In programming, as in other kinds of engineering design, simplifying assumptions are an important method for dealing with ...

    • Presentation Based User Interfaces 

      Ciccarelli, Eugene C. (MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1981-07)
      This research will develop a methodology for designing user interfaces for general-purpose interactive systems. The central concept is the presentation, a structured pictorial or text object conveying information about ...

    • Proposal For a Study of Commonsense Physical Reasoning 

      Forbus, Kenneth D. (MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1981-07)
      Our common sense views of physics are the first coin in our intellectual capital; understanding precisely what they contain could be very important both for understanding ourselves and for making machines more like us. ...