DSpace@MIT

A higher level language derives its great power form the fact that it tends to impose structure on the problem solving behavior for the user. Besides providing a library of useful subroutines with a uniform calling ...

When we look at certain line-drawings, we see three-dimensional objects. The question is why; why not just see two-dimensional images? We theorize that we see objects rather than images because the objects we see are, ...

This paper is a case study of an artifact design and evaluation process; it is a reflection on how right thinking about design methods may at times result in sub-optimal results. Our goal has been to assess our decision ...

We consider a restricted class of width-3 branching programs where each column of nodes depends on a single variable, and the 0-edges and the 1-edges out of each column form a permutation. In this model, parity and the ...

An algorithm is almost polynomial-time (apt) iff there is a polynomial p such that for all n, the algorithm halts within p(n) steps on all by at most p(n) inputs of size at most n. It is nown that for NP-complete and ...

This document proposes solutions for two problems obstructing Project Athena's implementation of workstation services. The principal problem is that workstation services demand a more flexible mutual-authentication ...

An efficient algorithm is presented for the calculation of the inverse kinematic accelerations for a 6 degree-of-freedom manipulator with a spherical wrist. The inverse kinematic calculation is shown to work synergistically ...

This paper collects several notes I've written over the last year in an attempt to work through my dissatisfactions with the ideas about representation I was taught in school. Among these ideas are the notion of a 'world ...

The goal of this research was to assist in the creation of a new, improved Wumpus advisor by taking protocols of ten people learning to play Wumpus with a human coach. It was hoped that by observing these subjects learn ...