We are only in the initial stages of our understanding of what Self-Aware Computer Systems means: what it means to be self-aware, what a self-aware system can do that other systems cannot do, and what are some of the immediate practical applications and challenge problems.
This research outlines the predominant dialogue and performance characteristics of three-person interpreted telephone speech during service-oriented dialogues, in comparison with those of two-person non-interpreted dialogues.
Yvan G. Leclerc, M. Reddy, M. Eriksen, J. Brecht, & D. Colleen
The goal of SRI International’s Digital Earth project was to develop the infrastructure for an open, distributed, multiresolution, 3-D representation of the earth, into which massive quantities of georeferenced information can be embedded.
In this research stereomodel acquisition geometry is analyzed, the relationship between stereomodel geometric parameters and stereoscopic fusion is established, and a criterion for collection of fusible models is tested.
Nils J. Nilsson, H.G. Barrow, L. Stephen Coles, G. Gleason, B. Meyer, & David Nitzan
This report describes interim results of a project to specify special equipment for research in Artificial Intelligence. After surveying several potential users it was decided that there was a need for standardized equipment for robot research.
We argue that current plan-based theories of discourse do not by themselves explain even simple task-oriented dialogues. The purpose of this paper to show how a number of difficult-to-explain features of these dialogues follow from the joint or team nature of the underlying task.
What is involved when a group of agents decide to do something together. Joint action by a team appears to involve more than just the union of simultaneous individual actions, even when those actions are coordinated.
Most conventional computer information-retrieval systems are limited by rigid data structures and inflexible query languages. In this paper we will describe an approach to combining and extending recently developed question-answering techniques to reasonably large data files.
Communication channels physically constrain the flow and shape of human language just as irresistably as a river bed directs the river’s current. Escarpments speed the current, sculpting jetties and whirlpools. Meadows encourage evenness, a certain recumbency.
The representation of adjectives and their adverbial counterparts in logical form rises a number of issues in the relation of (morpho)syntax to semantics, as well as more specific problems of lexical and grammatical analysis.
