Artificial Intelligence: An MIT Perspective: Volume 1

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.