Minsky1968

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• Contents:
  • Summary: A collection of significant dissertations and articles on early AI. Material includes descriptions of influential systems such as Bertram Raphael's SIR for natural language understanding and Daniel Bobrow's STUDENT, a version of John McCarthy's 1958 article on "Programs with common sense" and a paper drawn from J. Ross Quillian's 1966 dissertation on "Semantic memory".
  • Table of Contents
    • Introduction (by Marvin L.Minsky)
    • SIR: A Computer Program for Semantic Information Retrieval (by Bertrand Raphael)
    • Natural Language Input for a Computer Problem-Solving System (by Daniel Bobrow)
    • Semantic Memory (by M. Ross Quillian)
    • A Program for Solution of Geometry-Analogy Intelligence Test Question (by Thomas G. Evans)
    • A Deductive Question-Answering System (by Fischer Black)
    • Programs with Common Sense (by John McCarthy)
    • Descriptive Languages and Problem Solving (by Marvin L.Minsky)
    • Matter, Mind, and Models (by Marvin L. Minsky)
  • Discussion: TBD by one of authors
  
  
• Availability:
  • Out-of-print
  • Versions of some sections available on-line:
    • Matter, Mind, and Models
    • Natural Language Input for a Computer Problem-Solving System
    • SIR: A Computer Program for Semantic Information Retrieval
    • Programs with Common Sense : 1959 Version
  
  
• About the authors
  • Marvin Minsky, written by author
  • Daniel Bobrow, written by author
  • Fischer Black, wikipedia, does not mention AI work
  • John McCarthy, written by author


• Other books by authors
  • Marvin Minsky
    • M.L. Minsky and S. Papert, Perceptrons, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1969 (also 1988)
    • M.L. Minsky, The Society of Mind. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1986.
    • H. Harrison and M. Minsky, The Turing Option, Warner Books, New York,1992
  • Daniel Bobrow
    • Daniel G. Bobrow, and A. Collins Eds, Representation and Understanding, Academic Press, New York, 1975.
    • Daniel Bobrow, editor. Qualitative Reasoning about Physical Systems. MIT Press, 1985
    • Gregor J. Kiczales, James des Rivieres, Daniel G. Bobrow, The art of the metaobject protocol. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,1991.
    • Daniel Bobrow, editor. Artificial intelligence in perspective. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,1994.
  • Fischer Black
    • Fischer Black, Exploring General Equilibrium, MIT Press, 1995.


• Representative Articles by Authors TBD


• Context of Writing TBD


• Significance TBD


• References