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Toward A Model Of Children's Story Comprehension
(1972-12-01)
How does a person answer questions about children's stories? For example, consider 'Janet wanted Jack's paints. She looked at the picture he was painting and said 'Those paints make your picture look funny.' The ...
A Circuit Grammar For Operational Amplifier Design
(1984-01-01)
Electrical circuit designers seldom create really new topologies or use old ones in a novel way. Most designs are known combinations of common configurations tailored for the particular problem at hand. In this thesis ...
Hierarchical Object Recognition Using Libraries of Parameterized Model Sub-Parts
(1987-05-01)
This thesis describes the development of a model-based vision system that exploits hierarchies of both object structure and object scale. The focus of the research is to use these hierarchies to achieve robust recognition ...
On Motion Planning with Uncertainty
(1984-08-01)
Robots must successfully plan and execute tasks in the presence of uncertainty. Uncertainty arises from errors in modeling, sensing, and control. Planning in the presence of uncertainty constitutes one facet of the ...
Justified Generalization: Acquiring Procedures from Examples
(1985-01-01)
This thesis describes an implemented system called NODDY for acquiring procedures from examples presented by a teacher. Acquiring procedures form examples involves several different generalization tasks. Generalization ...
TEMPEST: A Template Editor for Structured Text
(1985-06-01)
TEMPEST is a full-screen text editor that incorporates a structural paradigm in addition to the more traditional textual paradigm provided by most editors. While the textual paradigm treats the text as a sequence of ...
ACTORS: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems
(1985-06-01)
A foundational model of concurrency is developed in this thesis. We examine issues in the design of parallel systems and show why the actor model is suitable for exploiting large-scale parallelism. Concurrency in actors ...
Finding Texture Boundaries in Images
(1987-06-01)
Texture provides one cue for identifying the physical cause of an intensity edge, such as occlusion, shadow, surface orientation or reflectance change. Marr, Julesz, and others have proposed that texture is represented ...
AFL-1: A Programming Language for Massively Concurrent Computers
(1986-11-01)
Computational models are arising is which programs are constructed by specifying large networks of very simple computational devices. Although such models can potentially make use of a massive amount of concurrency, ...
A Computational Model for Observation in Quantum Mechanics
(1987-03-01)
A computational model of observation in quantum mechanics is presented. The model provides a clean and simple computational paradigm which can be used to illustrate and possibly explain some of the unintuitive and ...