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Spatial Disposition of Axes in a Generalized Cylinder Representation of Objects
(1975-12-01)
It is proposed that the 3-D representation of an object is based primarily on a stick-figure configuration, where each stick represents one or more axes in the object's generalized cylinder representation. The loosely ...
Very Large Planner-Type Data Bases
(1975-09-01)
This paper describes the implementation of a typical data-base manaer for an A.I. language like Planner, Conniver, or QA4, and some proposed extensions for applications involving greater quantities of data than usual. ...
Early Processing of Visual Information
(1975-12-01)
The article describes a symbolic approach to visual information processing, and sets out four principles that appear to govern the design of complex symbolic information processing systems. A computational theory of ...
Synthesizing Constraint Expressions
(1976-07-01)
An algorithm is presented for determining the values which simultaneously satisfy a set of relations, or constraints, involving different subsets of n variables. The relations are represented in a series of constraint ...
How Near is Near?
(1976-02-01)
This paper presents a system for understanding the concept of near and far, weighing such factors as purpose of the judgement, dimensions of the objects, absolute size of the distance, and size of the distance relative ...
The Text-Justifier TJ6
(1976-05-01)
This memo, intended as both a reference and user's manual describes the text-justifying program TJ6, which compiles a neat output document from a sloppy input manuscript. TJ6 can justify and fill text; automatically ...
Leading a Child to a Computer Culture
(1975-12-01)
"LOGO" is sometimes used as the name of a programming language. It is also used as the name of...what shall I call it?... an environment, a culture, a way of thinking about computers and about learning and about putting ...
The Development of Musical Intelligence I: Strategies for Representing Simple Rhythms
(1975-11-01)
This paper is the first in a series of monographs which will describe various aspects of the development of musical intelligence.
COMEX: A Support System for a Commodities Expert
(1977-08-01)
The intelligent support system project is developing a program (COMEX) to assist a commodities expert in tasks such as interpreting data, predicting trends and intelligent noticing. Large amounts of qualitative and ...
The Revised Report on SCHEME: A Dialect of LISP
(1978-01-01)
SCHEME is a dialect of LISP. It is an expression-oriented, applicative order, interpreter-based language which allows one to manipulate programs as data. It differs from most current dialects of LISP in that it closes ...