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Planner Implementation Proposal to ARPA 1972-1973
(1971-12-01)
The task objective is the generalization and implementation of the full power of the problem solving formalism PLANNER in the next two years. We will show how problem solving knowledge can be effectively incorporated into ...
Information Processing and Transmission in Cellular Automata
(1971-01-01)
A cellular automaton is an iterative array of very simple identical information processing machines called cells. Each cell can communicate with neighboring cells. At discrete moments of time the cells can change from ...
Understanding Scenes With Shadows
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1971-11)
The basic problem of this research is to find methods which will enable a program to construct a three dimensional interpretation from the line drawing of a scene, where the scene may have shadows and various degeneracies. ...
Progress in Extending the VIRGIN Program
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1971-09)
The VIRGIN program will interpret pictures of simple scenes. This paper describes a program, SINNER, which will deal with picture which contain cracks and shadows. In addition to handling pictures of this richer world, ...
The FINDSPACE Problem
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1971-08-03)
The FINDSPACE problem is that of establishing a volume in space where an object of specified dimensions will fit. The problem seems to have two subproblems: the hypothesis generation problem of finding a likely spot to ...
Micro-Planner Reference Manual (Update)
(1971-12-01)
This is a manual for the use of the Micro Planner interpreter, which implements a subset of Carl Hewitt's language, PLANNER and is now available for use by the Artificial Intelligence Group.
Teaching Children to be Mathematicians vs. Teaching About Mathematics
(1971-07-01)
Being a mathematician is no more definable as 'knowing' a set of mathematical facts than being a poet is definable as knowing a set of linguistic facts. Some modern math ed reformers will give this statement a too easy ...
How to Get onto the System
(1971-04-01)
This memo is intended to get very new users started on the MAC AI system. It presents some simple rituals for making and editing fields, getting print outs, making microtapes, and so on. Most of the rituals given are not ...
A Computer Laboratory for Elementary Schools
(1971-10-01)
This is a research project on elementary education whose immediate objective is the development of new methods and materials for teaching in an environment of computers and computer-controlled devices. Longer term objectives ...
Teaching Children Thinking
(1971-10-01)
This paper is dedicated to the hope that someone with power to act will one day see that contemporary research on education is like the following experiment by a nineteenth century engineer who worked to demonstrate that ...