Artificial Intelligence: An Mit Perspective, Vol 1 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262730588 ISBN 13: 9780262730587

Publisher: MIT Press, 1982

Synopsis

The broad range of material included in these volumes suggests to the newcomer thenature of the field of artificial intelligence, while those with some background in AI willappreciate the detailed coverage of the work being done at MIT. The results presented are related tothe underlying methodology. Each chapter is introduced by a short note outlining the scope of theproblem begin taken up or placing it in its historical context.

Contents, VolumeI: Expert Problem Solving: Qualitative and Quantitative Reasoning in Classical Mechanics; ProblemSolving About Electrical Circuits; Explicit Control of Reasoning; A Glimpse of Truth Maintenance;Design of a Programmer's Apprentice; Natural Language Understanding and Intelligent ComputerCoaches: A Theory of Syntactic Recognition for Natural Language; Disambiguating References andInterpreting Sentence Purpose in Discourse; Using Frames in Scheduling; Developing Support Systemsfor Information Analysis; Planning and Debugging in Elementary Programming; Representation andLearning: Learning by Creating and Justifying Transfer Frames; Descriptions and the Specializationof Concept; The Society Theory of Thinking; Representing and Using Real-World Knowledge.

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About the Author

Patrick H. Winston is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT.

Review

" A glimpse into the frontiers of research going on in AI labs all over the world. And the editors have performed a commendable task in throwing open the doors of MIT's AI labs and letting the public in to have a look around.... One does not have to be clairvoyant to predict that what goes on now in the large computers will someday emerge on the screens of PETs, Apples, TRS-80s and a host of other microcomputers." - "Personal Computing"

& quot; A glimpse into the frontiers of research going on in AI labs all over the world. And the editors have performed a commendable task in throwing open the doors of MIT's AI labs and letting the public in to have a look around.... One does not have to be clairvoyant to predict that what goes on now in the large computers will someday emerge on the screens of PETs, Apples, TRS-80s and a host of other microcomputers.& quot; - Personal Computing

"A glimpse into the frontiers of research going on in AI labs all over the world. And the editors have performed a commendable task in throwing open the doors of MIT's AI labs and letting the public in to have a look around.... One does not have to be clairvoyant to predict that what goes on now in the large computers will someday emerge on the screens of PETs, Apples, TRS-80s and a host of other microcomputers."-- "Personal Computing"

"A glimpse into the frontiers of research going on in AI labs all over the world. And the editors have performed a commendable task in throwing open the doors of MIT's AI labs and letting the public in to have a look around.... One does not have to be clairvoyant to predict that what goes on now in the large computers will someday emerge on the screens of PETs, Apples, TRS-80s and a host of other microcomputers." Personal Computing

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0262730588
• ISBN 13: 9780262730587
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 508
• Editor: Winston Patrick Henry, Brown Richard H