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On Visual Detection of Light Sources
(1975-05-01)
The paper addresses the following problem: Given an array of light intensities obtained from some scene, find the light sources in the original scene. The following factors are discussed from the point of view of their ...
Teaching Teachers LOGO: The Lesley Experiments
(1976-04-01)
This research is concerned with the question of whether or not teachers who lack specialized backgrounds can adapt to and become proficient in the technically complex, philosophically sophisticated LOGO learning ...
Local Methods for Localizing Faults in Electronic Circuits
(1976-11-01)
The work described in this paper is part of an investigation of the issues involved in making expert problem solving programs for engineering design and for maintenance of engineered systems. In particular, the paper ...
Representing Visual Information
(1977-05-01)
Vision is the construction of efficient symbolic descriptions from images of the world. An important aspect of vision is the choice of representations for the different kinds of information in a visual scene. In the ...
Symbolic Evaluation Using Conceptual Representations for Programs with Side-Effects
(1976-12-01)
Symbolic evaluation is a process which abstractly evaluates an program on abstract data. A formalism based on conceptual representations is proposed as a specification language for programs with side-effects. Relations ...
Viewing Control Structures as Patterns of Passing Messages
(1976-12-01)
The purpose of this paper is to discuss some organizational aspects of programs using the actor model of computation. In this paper we present an approach to modelling intelligence in terms of a society of communicating ...
Pre-Readers' Concepts of the English Word
(1976-11-01)
Pre-Readers exhibit concepts of the English word different from those of literate adults. The inclusive word concept is primary: A word is what we call an utterance and any of its parts. Pre-Readers suffer confusion ...
Capturing Intuitive Knowledge in Procedural Description
(1976-12-01)
Trying to capture intuitive knowledge is a little like trying to capture the moment between what just happened and what is about to happen. Or to quote a famous philosopher, "You can't put your foot in the same river ...
Teaching the Computer to Add: An Example of Problem-Solving in an Anthropomorphic Computer Culture
(1976-12-01)
Computers open up new ways to think about knowledge and learning. Learning computer science should draw upon and feed these new approaches. In a previous paper called "Leading a Child to a Computer Culture" I discuss ...
Control and Learning by the State Space Model: Experimental Findings
(1977-04-01)
This is the second of a two part presentation of a model for motor control and learning. The model was implemented using a small computer and the MIT -Scheinman manipulator. Experiments were conducted which demonstrate ...