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This memo gives a series of experiments which one can use to get a better understanding of how music works and how music is apprehended by an active and knowing listener. It does so by using the children's computer ...

This paper is a manual for an implementation of Logo graphics primitives in Lisp on the MIT Lisp Machine. The graphics system provides: Simple line drawing and erasing using "turtle geometry" Flexible relative and absolute ...

Shareable data services providing consistency guarantees, such as atomicity (linearizability), make building distributedsystems easier. However, combining linearizability with efficiency in practical algorithms is difficult. ...

The registration of an image with a model of the surface being imaged is an important prerequisite to many image understanding tasks. Once registration is achieved, new image analysis techniques can be explored. One approach ...

This thesis presents flexible abstractions for specifying resource management policies, together with efficient mechanisms for implementing those abstractions. Several novel scheduling techniques are introduced, including ...

As multiprocessors scale beyond the limits of a few tens of processors, they must look beyond traditional methods of synchronization to minimize serialization and achieve the high degrees of parallelism required to utilize ...

This paper was originally written as an address to a conference of the National Association of Schools of Music on "The Music Consumer". Posing a series of questions which point to fundamental issues underlyin the ...

The M-Machine is an experimental multicomputer being developed to test architectural concepts motivated by the constraints of modern semiconductor technology and the demands of programming systems. The M- Machine computing ...