Browsing Artificial Intelligence Lab Publications by Title
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Conversations Between Programs
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1974-09)This paper discusses the problem of getting a computer to speak, generating natural language that is appropriate to the situation and is what it wants to say. It describes, at a general level, a program which will embody ... -
CONVERT
(1966-06-01)A programming language is described which is applicable to problems conveniently described by transformation rules. By this we mean that patterns may be prescribed, each being associated with a skeleton, so that a series ... -
Cooperative Computation of Stereo Disparity
(1976-06-01)The extraction of stereo disparity information from two images depends upon establishing a correspondence between them. This article analyzes the nature of the correspondence computation, and derives a cooperative algorithm ... -
Cooperative Physics of Fly Swarms: An Emergent Behavior
(1995-04-11)We have simulated the behavior of several artificial flies, interacting visually with each other. Each fly is described by a simple tracking system (Poggio and Reichardt, 1973; Land and Collett, 1974) which summarizes ... -
Coordinate-Independent Computations on Differential Equations
(1998-03-01)This project investigates the computational representation of differentiable manifolds, with the primary goal of solving partial differential equations using multiple coordinate systems on general n- dimensional spaces. ... -
The Coordination of Arm Movements: An Experimentally Confirmed Mathematical Model
(1984-11-01)This paper presents studies of the coordination f voluntary human arm movements. A mathematical model is formulated which is shown to predict both the qualitative features and the quantitative details observed ... -
The Copycat Project: An Experiment in Nondeterminism and Creative Analogies
(1984-01-01)A micro-world is described, in which many analogies involving strikingly different concepts and levels of subtlety can be made. The question "What differentiates the good ones from the bad ones?" is discussed, and ... -
Corpus-Based Techniques for Word Sense Disambiguation
(1998-05-27)The need for robust and easily extensible systems for word sense disambiguation coupled with successes in training systems for a variety of tasks using large on-line corpora has led to extensive research into corpus-based ... -
Correction of Force Errors for Flexible Manipulators in Quasi-Static Conditions
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1990-12)This paper deals with the problem of controlling the interactions of flexible manipulators with their environment. For executing a force control task, a manipulator with intrinsic (mechanical) compliance has some advantages ... -
Correspondence and Affine Shape from Two Orthographic Views: Motion and Recognition
(1991-12-01)The paper presents a simple model for recovering affine shape and correspondence from two orthographic views of a 3D object. It is shown that four corresponding points along two orthographic views, taken under similar ... -
A Counterexample to the Theory that Vision Recovers Three-Dimensional Scenes
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1988-11)The problem of three-dimensional vision is generally formulated as the problem of recovering the three-dimensional scene that caused the image. Here we present a certain line-drawing and show that it has the following ... -
The Coupled Depth/Slope Approach to Surface Reconstruction
(1986-06-01)Reconstructing a surface from sparse sensory data is a well known problem in computer vision. Early vision modules typically supply sparse depth, orientation and discontinuity information. The surface reconstruction ... -
A Coupled Multi-ALU Processing Node for a Highly Parallel Computer
(1992-09-01)This report describes Processor Coupling, a mechanism for controlling multiple ALUs on a single integrated circuit to exploit both instruction-level and inter-thread parallelism. A compiler statically schedules individual ... -
Creation of Computer Animation from Story Descriptions
(1979-08-01)This report describes a computer system that creates simple computer animation in response to high-level, vague, and incomplete descriptions of films. It makes its films by collecting and evaluating suggestions from ... -
CREF: An Editing Facility for Managing Structured Text
(1985-02-01)This paper reports work in progress on an experimental text editor called CREF, the Cross Referenced Editing Facility. CREF deals with chunks of text, called segments, which may have associated features such as keywords ... -
A Criterion for the Optimal Design of Multiaxis Force Sensors
(1990-10-01)This paper deals with the design of multi-axis force (also known as force/torque) sensors, as considered within the framework of optimal design theory. The principal goal of this paper is to identify a mathematical ... -
Critical Analysis of Programming in Societies of Behaviors
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1986-12)Programming in societies of behavior-agents is emerging as a promising method for creating mobile robot control systems that are responsive both to internal priorities for action and to external world constraints. It is ... -
Cryptology and Data Communications
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1976-12)This paper is divided into two parts. The first part deals with cryptosystems and cryptanalysis. It surveys the basic information about cryptosystems and then addresses two specific questions. Are cryptosystems such as ... -
CTSS LISP Notice-Supplement to A.I. Memo No. 67
(1964-12-01)The LISP system (command version) has been updated. Bugs are corrected include: 1. out of pushdown list in compiled function will not transfer to 77777. 2. with compiler printing turned off by comprint, it is truly off. ... -
The Curvature Primal Sketch
(1984-02-01)In this paper we introduce a novel representation of the significant changes in curvature along the bounding contour of planar shape. We call the representation the curvature primal sketch. We describe an implemented ...
