AI Working Papers (1971 - 1995): Recent submissions

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    • Towards a Better Definition of Transactions 

      Kerns, Barbara S. (MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1979-05)
      This paper builds on a technical report written by Carl Hewitt and Henry Baker called "Actors and Continuous Functionals". What is called a "goal-oriented activity" in that paper will be referred to in this paper as a ...

    • Preliminary Design of the APIARY for VLSI Support of Knowledge-Based Systems 

      Hewitt, Carl (MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1979-06)
      Knowledge-based applications will require vastly increased computational resources to achieve their goals. We are working on the development of a VLSI Message Passing Architecture to meet this need. As a first step we ...

    • Building English Explanations from Function Descriptions 

      Roberts, Bruce (MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1979-04)
      An explanatory component is an important ingredient in any complex AI system. A simple generative scheme to build descriptive phrases from Lisp function calls can produce respectable explanations if explanation generators ...