Artificial intelligence at MIT : expanding frontiers / edited by Patrick Henry Winston with Sarah Alexandra Shellard.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

V.1 Intelligenge in scientific computing / H. Abelson, M. Eisenberg, M. Halfant (and others) -- Abstraction in numerical methods / M. Halfant and G.J. Sussman -- Intelligent tools for mechanical design / K.T. Ulrich -- ARIEL: a massively parallel symbolic learning assitant for protein structure and function / R.H. Lathrop, T.A. Webster, T.F. Smith, and P.H. Winston -- SIBYL: a quantitative decision management system / J. Lee -- Using English for indexing and retrieving / B. Katz -- The programmer's apprentice / C. Rich and R.C. Waters -- Recognizing a program's design / C. Rich and L.M. Wills -- Logical volume s analogical or symbolic volume s connectionist or neat volume s scruffy / M. Minsky -- Excerpts from the society of the mind / M. Minsky -- HyoerBF: a powerful approximation technique for learning / T. Poggio and F. Girosi.

Principle-based parsing: natural language processing for the 1990's / R.C. Berwick and S. Fong -- Machine translation: a principle-based approach / B.J. Dorr -- Repairing learned knowledge using experience / P.H. Winston and S. Rao -- Model-based reasoning and W.C. Hamscher -- Invention from first principles: an overview / B.C. Williams -- Mathematical knoweldge representation // D.A. McAllester -- Three universal relations / D.A. McAllester / An architeture for mostly functional languages / T. Knight -- Performance analysis of k-ary n-cube interconnection networks / W.J. Dally -- The J-machine system / W.J. Daly -- Guarded horn clause languages: are they deductive and logical? / C. Hewitt and G. Agha -- Organizations are open systems / C. Hewitt.

V.2 A robust layered control system for a mobile robot / R.A. Brooks -- A robot that walks: emergent behaviors from a carefully evolved neywork / R.A. Brooks -- Task-level planning of pick-and-place robot motions / T. Lozano-Perez, J.L. Jones, E. Mazer, and P.A. O'Donnell -- Automatic synthesis of fine-motion strategies for robots / T. Lozano-Perez, M.T. Mason, and R.H. Taylor -- Using associative content-addressable memories to control robots / C.G. Atkeson, and D.J. Reinkensmeyer -- Preshaping command inputs to reduce system vibration / N.C. Singer and W.P. Seering -- Legged robots / M.H. Raibert -- Biped gymnastics / J.K. Hodgins and M.H. Raibert -- Using an articulated hand to manipulate objects / K. Salisbury, D. Brock, and P.A. O'Donnell -- An experimental whole-arm amnipulator / K. Salisbury, B. Eberman, M. Levin, and W. Townsend.

Calibrating closed kinematic chains / D.J. Bennett and J.M. Hollerbach -- Identifying the kinematics of robots / D.J. Bennett and J.M. Hollerbach -- Object recognition by constrined search / W.E.L. Grimson -- On the recognition of parameterized 2D objects / W.E.L. Grimsom -- Aligning pictorial descriptions / S. Ullman -- Maximizing rigidity: recovery of 3-D structure from motion / S. Ullman -- Direct methods for recovering motion / B.K.P. Horn and E.J. Weldon, Jr. -- Computational vision and regularization theory / T. Poggio, V. Torre, and C. Koch -- The MIT vision machine / T. Poggio, J. Little, E. Gamble (and others) -- Parallel networks for machine vision / B.K.P. Horn.