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Phipps, Philip
Sperry Computer Systems
St. Paul, Minnesota
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  Computer systems for automation and control
Olsson G., Piani G., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1992.  Type: Book (9780134575810)

The principal aspects of computer applications in system control are covered “with particular emphasis on industrial automation.” Also included are introductions to system modeling, signal processing, digital contro...

Sep 1 1993  
  Knowledge-based systems: a manager’s perspective
Tuthill G., Levy S., TAB Books, Blue Ridge Summit, PA, 1991.  Type: Book (9780830634798)

The intended audience of this book consists of managers who are inexperienced with AI but have the job of directing an AI project. The book is also good for the AI person who is not a manager but finds he or she must manage an AI proje...

Dec 1 1991  
  Expert systems handbook
Walker T. (ed), Miller R. (ed), Fairmont Press, Lilburn, GA, 1990.  Type: Book (9780881731019)

The authors appear to have reworked their book Expert systems 90 [1]. The result is about the best summary of expert systems in print. It is much more complete, better organized and edited, and more readable than the previous wo...

Apr 1 1991  
  Expert systems ’90
Walker T. (ed), Miller R. (ed), 1990.  Type: Book

While it does not survey theory or technological concepts, this volume provides a good snapshot of current commercial expert systems applications as well as some government and military systems. It is meant for people who want a quick ...

Sep 1 1990  
  Microcognition: philosophy, cognitive science, and parallel distributed processing
Clark A., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1989.  Type: Book (9780262031486)

Once in a while I read about an insight that I feel is right on. In my opinion, Clark’s book contains such an insight. His purpose is to demonstrate and describe an architecture of our minds that more accurately explains how ...

Jun 1 1990  
  Case-based planning: viewing planning as a memory task
Hammond K., Academic Press Prof., Inc., San Diego, CA, 1989.  Type: Book (9789780123220608)

This book is the result of the author’s research. The concepts it describes are illustrated in an expert recipe designer called CHEF. The book is well written, with many illustrations taken from CHEF dialogues and LISP code. ...

Jan 1 1990  
  The Cassandra architecture: distributed control in a blackboard system
Craig I. (trans.), Halsted Press, New York, NY, 1989.  Type: Book (9789780470213537)

Craig has succeeded very well in reporting on his efforst to research and develop an improved problem-solving blackboard architecture. He describes the research and gives good tutorial discussions on past blackboard development work; h...

Sep 1 1989  
  Expert systems development: building PC-based applications
Bielawski L., Lewand R., QED Information Sciences, Inc., Wellesley, MA, 1988.  Type: Book (9789780894352393)

This book is meant for those people who are not professional programmers but want to evaluate expert system development shells for a specific application or class of applications. It assumes a familiarity with the use of personal compu...

May 1 1989  
  The world’s fastest Scrabble program
Appel A. (ed), Jacobson G. Communications of the ACM 31(5): 572-578, 1988.  Type: Article

This very interesting paper describes the data structures used (directed acyclic word-graphs, or DAWGs), search strategies (backtracking constrained by precomputed “anchor points and cross-checks”), and special heur...

Oct 1 1988  
  Phase transitions in artificial intelligence systems
Huberman B. (ed), Hogg T. (ed) Artificial Intelligence 33(2): 155-171, 1987.  Type: Article

We predict that large-scale artificial intelligence systems and cognitive models will undergo sudden phase transitions from disjointed parts into coherent structures as their topological connectivity increases beyond a critical value. ...

Aug 1 1988  
 
 
 
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