Existing robot projects in the field of artificial intelligence have concentrated on tasks wherein the robot must excite an action in order to change the current state of its environment.
We describe a knowledge representation scheme called K-NET and a problem solving system called SNIFFER designed to answer queries using a K-NET knowledge base.
Description of SRI's design for a comprehensive study of alternative teacher certification programs, to determine the characteristics of those that were effective.
The syntactic structure of a sentence often manifests quite clearly the predicate-argument structure and relations of grammatical subordination. But scope dependencies are not so transparent.
The problem addressed in this paper is how to enable a computer system to acquire facts about new domains from tutors who are experts in their respective fields, but who have little or no training in computer science.
In this note we shall sketch the outline of a simple information-processing model of operant behavior. This model can be viewed as an elaboration of one suggested originally by Deutsch (1960); the present exposition, however, uses terms and concepts of computer science.
Ripudaman Malhotra, John Chase, Chris Ordowich, Daniel Steele, Michiaki Harada, & Keiji Makino
To forecast competing technologies under various scenarios of electricity demand, fuel cost, and research investment, SRI International researchers and partners have created a Power Technology Futures Model (PTFM).
What do the following tasks have in common–playing checkers, diagnosing bacterial infections, analyzing mass spectrograms of large organic molecules, and controlling factory automation machinery?