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Developing a Musical Ear: A New Experiment
(1972-07-01)
I would like to report on some ideas we have been developing at M.I.T. for self-paced, independent music study. The aim of our approach is to nurture in students that enigmatic quality called, "musical"-- be it a ...
Lock
(1972-06-01)
LOCK is a miscellaneous utility program operating under the ITS system. It allows the user to easily and conveniently perform a variety of infrequently required tasks. Most of these relate to console input-output or the ...
HAKMEM
(1972-02-01)
Here is some little know data which may be of i nterest to computer hackers. The items and examples are so sketchy that to decipher them may require more sincerity and curiosity than a non-hacker can muster. Doubtless, ...
ITS Status Report
(1972-04-01)
ITS is a time-shared operating system designed for the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory DEC PDP-10/PDP-6 installation and tailored to its special requirements. This status report described the design philosophy behind ...
A Package of LISP Functions for Making Movies and Demos
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1972-06)
A collection of functions have been written to allow LISP users to record display calls in a disk file. This file can be UREAD into a small LISP to reproduce the display effects of the program without doing the required ...
Artificial Intelligence Progress Report
(1972-01-01)
Research at the Laboratory in vision, language, and other problems of intelligence. This report is an attempt to combine a technical progress report with an exposition of our point of view about certain problems in the ...
A Heterarchical Program for Recognition of Polyhedra
(1972-06-01)
Recognition of polyhedra by a heterarchical program is presented. The program is based on the strategy of recognizing objects step by step, at each time making use of the previous results. At each stage, the most obvious ...
A Concrete Approach to Abstract Recursive Definitions
(1972-06-01)
We introduce a non-categorical alternative to Wagner's Abstract Recursive Definitions [Wg-1,2] using a generalization of the notion of clone called a u-clone. Our more concrete approach yields two new theorems: 1.) the ...
The Conniver Reference Manual
(1972-05-01)
This manual is an introduction and reference to the latest version of the Conniver programming language, an AI language wit general control and data-base structures.
Generating Semantic Descriptions From Drawings of Scenes With Shadows
(1972-11-01)
The research reported here concerns the principles used to automatically generate three-dimensional representations from line drawings of scenes. The computer programs involved look at scenes which consist of polyhedra ...