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Concurrent Systems Need Both Sequences And Serializers
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1979-02)
Contemporary concurrent programming languages fall roughly into two classes. Languages in the first class support the notion of a sequence of values and some kind of pipelining operation over the sequence of values. Languages ...
Global Time in Actor Computations
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1979-06)
The XPRT Description System
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1979-01)
This paper introduces a frame-based description language and studies methods for reasoning about problems using knowledge expressed in the language.
The system is based on the metaphor of a society of communicating experts ...
Building English Explanations from Function Descriptions
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1979-04)
An explanatory component is an important ingredient in any complex AI system. A simple generative scheme to build descriptive phrases from Lisp function calls can produce respectable explanations if explanation generators ...
Dynamics of Manipulators with Less Than One Degree of Freedom
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1983-01)
We have developed an efficient Lagrangian formulation of manipulators with small numbers of degrees of freedom. The efficiency derives from the lack of velocities, accelerations, and generalized forces. The number of ...
What to Read: A Biased Guide to AI Literacy for the Beginner
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1972-11)
This note tries to provide a quick guide to AI literacy for the beginning AI hacker and for the experienced AI hacker or two whose scholarship isn't what it should be. most will recognize it as the same old list of classic ...
Automated Program Description
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1982-08)
The Programmer's apprentice (PA) is an automated program development tool. The PA depends upon a library of common algorithms (cliches) as the source of its knowledge about programming. The PA uses these cliches to understand ...
Talking to the Puma
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1982-09)
The AI Lab's Unimation Puma 600 is a general-purpose industrial robot arm that has been interfaced to a Lisp Machine for use in robotics projects at the lab. It has been fitted with a force-sensing wrist. The Puma is capable ...
TRIG: An Interactive Robotic Teach System
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1982-06)
Currently, it is difficult for a non-programmer to generate a complex sensor-based robotic program. Most robot programming methods either generate only very simple programs or are such that they are only useful to programmers. ...
An Empirical Study of Program Modification Histories
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1983-03)
Large programs undergo many changes before they run in a satisfactory manner. For many large programs, modification histories are kept which record every change that is made to the program. By studying these records, ...