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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 Glossary of PDP11 LOGO Primitives
(1975-03-01)
This glossary was written for the purpose of providing a quick and concise yet accurate description of the primitives and special words and characters of the March 18, 1975 PDP 11 implementation of the LOGO languge. ...
The Luxury of Necessity
(1974-12-01)
This paper was originally written as an address to a conference of the National Association of Schools of Music on "The Music Consumer". Posing a series of questions which point to fundamental issues underlyin the ...
TORTIS: Toddler's Own Recursive Turgle Interpreter System
(1974-12-01)
TORTIS is a device for preschool children to communicated with and program the turtle. It consistst of several boxes (currently 3 button boxes and two blox boxes) designed so that only a few new concepts are introduced ...
Force Feedback in Precise Assembly Tasks
(1974-08-01)
This paper describes the execution of precise assembly tasks by a robot. The level of performance of the experimental system allows such basic actions as putting a peg into a hole, screwing a nut on a bolt, and picking ...
Localization of Failures in Radio Circuits: A Study in Causal and Teleological Reasoning
(1974-12-01)
This paper examines some methodologies for diagnosing correctly designed radio circuits which are failing to perform in the intended way because of some faulty component. Particular emphasis is placed on the utility ...
Commenting Proofs
(1974-05-01)
This paper constitutes a summary of a seminar entitled "Commenting Proofs" given a the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory during the spring of 1974. The work is concerned with new syntactic structures in formal proofs ...
What's in a Tune
(1974-11-01)
The work reported here began with two fundamental assumptions: 1) The perception of music is an active process; it involves the individual in selecting, sorting, and grouping the features of the phenomena before her. ...
LOGO Manual
(1974-12-01)
This document descibes the LOGO system implemented for the PDP 11/45 at the M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. The "system" includes not only the LOGO evaluator, but also a dedicated time-sharing system which ...
A Glossary of LOGO Primitives
(1974-12-01)
This is a brief description of the primitives in PDP 11 LOGO. It is intended to provide a quick reference for users who are already familiar with LOGO basics. For a more detailed and comprehensive description of LOGO, ...