AI Memos (1959 - 2004): Recent submissions

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    • Simplified Voronoi Diagrams 

      Canny, John; Donald, Bruce (1987-04-01)
      The Voronoi diagram has proved to be a useful tool in a variety of contexts in computational geometry. Our interest here is in using the diagram to simplify the planning of collision-free paths for a robot among ...

    • The Dynamicist's Workbench: I Automatic Preparation of Numerical Experiments 

      Abelson, Harold; Sussman, Gerald Jay (1987-05-01)
      The dynamicist's workbench is a system for automating some of the work of experimental dynamics. We describe a portion of our system that deals with the setting up and execution of numerical simulations. This part of ...

    • Formalizing Reusable Software Components in the Programmer's Apprentice 

      Rich, Charles; Waters, Richard C. (1987-02-01)
      There has been a long-standing desire in computer science for a way of collecting and using libraries of standard software components. The limited success in actually doing this stems not from any resistance to the ...