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Plan Recognition in a Programmer's Apprentice
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1977-05)
Brief Statement of the Problem:
Stated most generally, the proposed research is concerned with understanding and representing the teleological structure of engineered devices. More specifically, I propose to study the ...
A History Keeping Debugging System for PLASMA
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1977-05)
PLASMA (for PLAnner-like System Modeled on Actors) is a message-passing computer language based on actor semantics. Since every event in the system is the receipt of a message actor by a target actor, a complete history ...
Mapping Sentences to Case Frames
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1977-03)
This paper describes a range of phenomena that a case frame system should be able to handle and proposes generalizations to capture this behavior which are formulated as a set of production-like rules. These rules allow ...
A Birthday Party Frame System
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1977-02)
This paper is an experimental investigation of the utility of the MIT-AI frames system. Using this system, a birthday party planning system was written, representing the basic decisions that comprise such a plan as frames. ...
The Semantic Component of PAL: The Personal Assistant Language Understanding Program
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1977-03)
This paper summarizes the design and implementation of the "semantics" module of a natural language undertanding system for the personal assistant domain. This module includes mappings to deep frames, noun phrase referencing ...
A Computational Theory of Animation
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1977-04)
A system is proposed capable of generating narrative computer animation in response to a simple script. The major problem addressed is how to imbed into the system some of the knowledge that animators use when creating ...
Extracting topographic features from elevation data using contour lines
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1977-05)
This paper describes a method for finding such topographical features as ridges and valleys in a given terrain. Contour lines are used to obtain the desired result.
Evaluation of a multiprogramming time sharing system through simulation.
(1975)
The thesis describes the design and implementation of a simulation model. The model is patterned after the EXEC-8 multiprogramming time sharing operating system on the UNIVAC 1106 computer at the computer centre of the ...
A fast procedure for generating random numbers by a modification of the Marsaglia-Maclaren method
(1974)
Marsaglia and Maclaren combined two linear congruential generators in order to produce a pseudo random number sequence uniformly distributed in the range [0,2³⁵]. Their method is a considerable improvement compared with ...
Implementation of a structured PL/I subset compiler
(1974)
The thesis describes the design and implementation of a PL/I subset compiler which produces a hypothetical stack code as output. The compiler was based on a Pascal compiler developed by N. Wirth and U. Amman of Eidgenössische ...