Publisher's Synopsis
This collection of short essays reviews the scope and progress of research in artificial intelligence over the past two decades. Most-cited papers from the journal "Artificial Intelligence" are revisited by the authors who describe how their research has been developed, both by themselves and by others, since the journal's first publication.;The 28 papers span a wide variety of domains, including truth maintenance systems and qualitative process theory, chemical structure analysis, diagnosis of faulty circuits, and understanding visual scenes; they also span a broad range of methodologies, from AI's mathematical foundations to systems architecture.;This volume is dedicated to Allen Newell and concludes with a section of 14 essays devoted to a retrospective of his work.
