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Using the Vidisector and the Store Picture Facility
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1972-06)
The stored picture facility (FAKETV) allows LISP users, and to some extent machine language users, to access a library of stored images rather than live vidisector scenes. The vidisector functions in LISP have been slightly ...
A Vision Potpourri
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1972-06)
This paper discusses some recent changes and additions to the vision system. Among the additions are the ability to use visual feedback when trying to acurately position an object and the ability to use the arm as a sensory ...
Circular Scan
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1972-03)
Previous feature point detectors have been local in their support and have been universally designed for objects without appreciable texture. We have invented (or perhaps reinvented) a scheme using correlation between ...
A Program to Output Stored Pictures
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1972-06)
A program called LPTSEE has been written for use with the MIT vision system. LPTSEE makes use of the overprint capability of the line printer to allow the user to output a stored picture image.
What to Read: A Biased Guide to AI Literacy for the Beginner
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1972-11)
This note tries to provide a quick guide to AI literacy for the beginning AI hacker and for the experienced AI hacker or two whose scholarship isn't what it should be. most will recognize it as the same old list of classic ...
Teaching of Procedures-Progress Report
(1972-10-01)
The idea of building a programmer is very seductive in that it holds the promise of massive bootstrapping and thus ties in with many ideas about learning and teaching. I will avoid going into those issues here. It is ...
Infants in Children Stories - Toward a Model of Natural Language Comprehension
(1972-08-01)
How can we construct a program that will understand stories that children would understand? By understand we mean the ability to answer questions about the story. We are interested here with understanding natural ...
Why Conniving is Better than Planning
(1972-02-01)
A higher level language derives its great power form the fact that it tends to impose structure on the problem solving behavior for the user. Besides providing a library of useful subroutines with a uniform calling ...
How the GAS Program Works with a Note on Simulating Turtles with Touch Sensors
(1972-12-01)
The GAS program is a display simulation of a 2 dimensional ideal gas. Barriers, or walls, are line segments, and molecules, alias particles or balls, are circles. Collisions occur between balls and other balls as well ...
Manipulator Design Vignettes
(1972-10-01)
This memo is about mechanical arms. The literature on robotics seems to be deficient in such discussions, perhaps because not enough sharp theoretical problems have been formulated to attract interest. I'm sure many ...