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Book Review: Common Lisp: A Tutorial by Wendy Milner (Prentice-Hall)
According to the author, this book is intended to be used by people that are interested in learning Common Lisp. A prior knowledge of Common Lisp programming is not assumed.
Book review: Intelligent Tutoring Sytems---Lessons Learned by Joseph Psotka, L. Dan Massey, and Sharon Mutter (Lawrence Erlbaum Assocs. Inc.)
Introduction For many years the Sleeman/Brown text on inteligent tutoring systems was the sole offering in the field. During the past year a number of new ITS texts have been released. Although some of them, (e.g. Wenger, 1987) tie theory to application,...
New books
Mainstream AI research directions are reflected in the majority of the papers presented in this volume. Automatic reasoning and knowledge representation problems, inferencing, action planning and coordination, temporal reasoning, truth maintenance ...
Abstractions in semantic networks: axiom schemata for generalization, aggregation and grouping
A successful complex expert system, Kardio's model of the human heart is designed for the diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmias. Kardio is highly skilled in the reading of ECG recordings, and can be used as a diagnostic tool in ECG interpretation. In this ...
AI online: the coverage of the literature of artificial intelligence in online bibliographic databases
Two years ago I analysed the degree of scatter of AI literature across a wide range of online bibliographic databases [1]. This paper presents the results of a similar survey two years later. Besides drawing attention to those databases which are most ...
The infinite state acceptor and its application to AI
The infinite state acceptor is presented and is shown to be more powerful than the Turing machine for purposes of accepting strings. The role of abstraction in the design of such machines is discussed. It will be argued that such an acceptor is not ...
Selected AI-Related Dissertations
The following are citations selected by title and abstract as being related to AI, resulting from a computer search, using the BRS Information Technologies retrieval service, of the Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI) database produced by ...