AI Memos (1959 - 2004): Recent submissions

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    • Active Touch Sensing 

      Hillis, William Daniel (1981-04-01)
      The mechanical hand of the future will roll a screw between its fingers and sense, by touch, which end is which. This paper describes a step toward such a manipulator ?? robot finger that is used to recognize small ...

    • Chaosnet 

      Moon, David A. (1981-06-01)
      Chaosnet is a local network, that is, a system for communication among a group of computers located within about 1000 meters of each other. Originally developed by the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory as the internal ...

    • The Use of Parallelism to Implement a Heuristic Search 

      Kornfeld, William A. (1981-03-01)
      The role of parallel processing in heuristic search is examined by means of an example (cryptarithmetic addition). A problem solver is constructed that combines the metaphors of constraint propagation and hypothesize-and-test. ...