AI Working Papers (1971 - 1995): Recent submissions

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    • A Note on the Optimal Allocation of Spaces in MACLISP 

      Baker, Henry G. Jr. (MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1977-03-16)
      This note describes a method for allocating storage among the various spaces in the MACLISP Implementation of LISP. The optimal strategy which minimizes garbage collector effort allocates free storage among the various ...

    • PSUDOC - A Simple Diagnostic Program 

      Lozano-Perez, Tomas (MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1976-12)
      This paper describes PSUDOC, a very simple LISP program to carry out some medical diagnosis tasks. The program's domain is a subset of clinical medicine characterized by patients presenting with edema and/or hematuria. The ...

    • Laws for Communicating Parallel Processes 

      Baker, Henry; Hewitt, Carl (MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1977-05-10)
      This paper presents some laws that must be satisfied by computations involving communicating parallel processes. The laws are stated in the context of the actor theory, a model for distributed parallel computation, and ...