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  • Analyzing the Roles of Descriptions and Actions in Open Systems 
    Hewitt, Carl; Jong, Peter de (1983-04-01)
    This paper analyzes relationships between the roles of descriptions and actions in large scale, open ended, geographically distributed, concurrent systems. Rather than attempt to deal with the complexities and ambiguities ...
  • The Anatomy and Physiology of Gating Retinal Signals in the Mammalian Lateral Geniculate Nucleus 
    Sherman, S. Murray; Koch, Christof (1985-06-01)
    In the mammalian visual system, the lateral geniculate nucleus is commonly thought to act merely as a relay for the transmission of visual information from the retina to the visual cortex, a relay without significant ...
  • Annotated Production Systems: A Model for Skill Acquisition 
    Goldstein, Ira P.; Grimson, Eric (1977-02-01)
    Annotated Production Systems provide a procedural model for skill acquisition by augmenting a production model of the skill with formal commentary describing plans, bugs, and interraltionships between various productions. ...
  • Any Dimensional Reconstruction from Hyperplanar Projections 
    Gennert, Michael A. (1984-10-01)
    In this paper we examine the reconstruction of functions of any dimension from hyperplanar projections. This is a generalization of a problem that has generated much interest recently, especially in the field of medical ...
  • Apparent Opacity Affects Perception of Structure from Motion 
    Kersten, Daniel; Bulthoff, Heinrich (1991-01-01)
    The judgment of surface attributes such as transparency or opacity is often considered to be a higher-level visual process that would make use of low-level stereo or motion information to tease apart the transparent ...
  • Application of Charge Detection to Dynamic Contact Sensing 
    Eberman, Brian; Salisbury, S. Kenneth (1993-03-01)
    The manipulation contact forces convey substantial information about the manipulation state. This paper address the fundamental problem of interpreting the force signals without any additional manipulation context. ...
  • An Application of the Photometric Stereo Method 
    Ikeuchi, Katsushi; Horn, Berthold K.P. (1979-08-01)
    The orientation of patches on the surface of an object can be determined from multiple images taken with different illuminations, but from the same viewing position. This method, referred to as photometric stereo, can ...
  • An Approach to Automatic Robot Programming 
    Lozano-Perez, Tomas; Brooks, Rodney A. (1985-04-01)
    In this paper we propose an architecture for a new task-level system, which we call TWAIN. Task-level programming attempts to simplify the robot programming process but requiring that the user specify only goals for ...
  • An Approach To Object Recognition: Aligning Pictorial Descriptions 
    Ullman, Shimon (1986-12-01)
    This paper examines the problem of shape-based object recognition and proposes a new approach, the alignment of pictorial descriptions. The first part of the paper reviews general approaches to visual object recognition ...
  • ARIADNE: Pattern-Directed Inference and Hierarchical Abstraction in Protein Structure Recognition 
    Lathrop, Richard H.; Webster, Teresa A.; Smith, Temple F. (1987-05-01)
    There are many situations in which a very detailed low-level description encodes, through a hierarchical organization, a recognizable higher-order pattern. The macro-molecular structural conformations of proteins exhibit ...
  • Arithmetic in LISP 1.5 
    Levin, Michael (1961-04-01)
    As of the present, the following parts of LISP 1.5 are working. This is an excerpt from the forth coming LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual.
  • Arithmetic Shifting Considered Harmful 
    Steele, Guy Lewis, Jr. (1976-09-01)
    For more than a decade there has been great confusion over the semantics of the standard "arithmetic right shift" instruction. This confusion particularly afflicts authors of computer reference handbooks and of ...
  • The Arithmetic-Statement Pseudo-Ops: .I and .F 
    Horn, B.K.P. (1969-08-01)
    This is a feature of MIDAS which facilitates the rapid writing and debugging of programs involving much numerical calculation. The statements used are ALGOL-like and easy to interpret.
  • Artificial Intelligence and Robotics 
    Brady, Michael (1984-02-01)
    Since Robotics is the field concerned with the connection of perception to action, Artificial Intelligence must have a central role in Robotics if the connection is to be intelligent. Artificial Intelligence addresses ...
  • Artificial Intelligence -- A Personal View 
    Marr, David (1976-03-01)
    The goal of A.I. is to identify and solve useful information processing problems. In so doing, two types of theory arise. Here, they are labelled Types 1 and 2, and their characteristics are outlined. This discussion creates ...
  • Artificial Intelligence, Language and the Study of Knowledge 
    Goldstein, Ira; Papert, Seymour (1975-07-01)
    This paper studies the relationship of Artificial Intelligence to the study of language and the representation of the underlying knowledge which supports the comprehension process. It develops the view that intelligence ...
  • The Artificial Intelligence of Hubert L. Dreyfus: A Budget of Fallacies 
    Papert, Seymour (1968-01-01)
    In December 1965 a paper by Hubert Dreyfus revived the old game of generating curious arguments for and against Artificial Intelligence. Dreyfus hit top form in September 1967 with an explanation in the Review of ...
  • Artificial Intelligence Progress Report 
    Minsky, Marvin; Papert, Seymour (1972-01-01)
    Research at the Laboratory in vision, language, and other problems of intelligence. This report is an attempt to combine a technical progress report with an exposition of our point of view about certain problems in the ...
  • The Art of Snaring Dragons 
    Cohen, Harvey A. (1974-11-01)
    DRAGONs are formidable problems in elementary mechanics not amenable to solution by naﶥ formula cranking. What is the intellectual weaponry one needs to snare a Dragon? To snare a Dragon one brings to mind an heuristic ...
  • The Art of the Interpreter of the Modularity Complex (Parts Zero, One, and Two) 
    Steele, Guy Lewis, Jr.; Sussman, Gerald Jay (1978-05-01)
    We examine the effects of various language design decisions on theprogramming styles available to a user of the language, with particular emphasis on the ability to incrementally construct modular systems. At each ...
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