Publisher's Synopsis
This collection of essays by 12 members of the MIT staff, provides an inside report on the scope and expectations of current research in one of the world's major AI centers. The chapters on artificial intelligence, expert systems, vision, robotics, and natural language provide both a broad overview of current areas of activity and an assessment of the field at a time of great public interest and rapid technological progress.
Contents
Artificial Intelligence, Patrick H. Winston and Karen Prendergast KnowledgeBased Systems, Randall Davis Expert-System Tools and Techniques, Peter Szolovits Medical Diagnosis: Evolution of Systems Building Expertise, Ramesh S. Patil Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering, Charles Rich and Richard C. Waters Intelligent Natural Language Processing, Robert C. Berwick Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Victor Zue Robot Programming and Artificial Intelligence, Tomas Lozano-Perez Robot Hands and Tactile Sensing, John M. Hollerbach Intelligent Vision, Michael Brady Making Robots See, W. Eric L. Grimson Autonomous Mobile Robots, Rodney A. Brooks
AI in the 1980s and Beyond is included in the Artificial Intelligence Series, edited by Patrick H. Winston and Michael Brady.