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A State Space Model for Sensorimotor Control and Learning
(1976-01-01)
This is the first of a two-part presentation which deals with certain computer controlled manipulator problems. This first part discusses a model which is designed to address problems of motor control, motor learning, ...
A Frame for Frames: Representing Knowledge for Recognition
(1975-03-01)
This paper presents a version of frames suitable for representing knowledge for a class of reconition problems. An initial section gives an intuitive model of frames, and illustrates a number of desirable features of ...
Logo Progress Report 1973-1975
(1975-09-01)
Over the past two years, the Logo Project has grown along many dimensions. This document provides an overview in outline form of the main activities and accomplishments of the past as well as the major goals guiding ...
Grammar for the People: Flowcharts of SHRDLU's Grammar
(1973-03-01)
The grammar which SHRDLU uses to parse sentences is outlined in a series of flowcharts which attempt to modularize and illuminate its structure. In addition, a short discussion of systemic grammar is included.
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 ...
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 ...
Micro-Planner Reference Manual
(1970-07-01)
Micro-Planner is an implementation of a subset of Cal Hewitt's language, PLANNER by Gerald Jay Sussman, Terry Winograd, and Eugene Charniak on the AI group computer in LISP. Micro-Planner is now a publically accessible ...
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 ...