The broad range of material included in these volumes suggests to the newcomer the nature of the field of artificial intelligence, while those with some background in AI will appreciate the detailed coverage of the work being done at MIT. The results presented are related to the underlying methodology. Each chapter is introduced by a short note outlining the scope of the problem begin taken up or placing it in its historical context.Contents, Volume I: Expert Problem Solving: Qualitative and Quantitative Reasoning in Classical Mechanics
Problem Solving About Electrical Circuits
Explicit Control of Reasoning
A Glimpse of Truth Maintenance
Design of a Programmer's Apprentice
Natural Language Understanding and Intelligent Computer Coaches: A Theory of Syntactic Recognition for Natural Language
Disambiguating References and Interpreting Sentence Purpose in Discourse
Using Frames in Scheduling
Developing Support Systems for Information Analysis
Planning and Debugging in Elementary Programming
Representation and Learning: Learning by Creating and Justifying Transfer Frames
Descriptions and the Specialization of Concept
The Society Theory of Thinking
Representing and Using Real-World Knowledge.
Includes bibliographical references and index.