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A Framework for Representing Knowledge
(1974-06-01)
This is a partial theory of thinking, combining a number of classical and modern concepts from psychology, linguistics, and AI. Whenever one encounters a new situation (or makes a substantial change in one's viewpoint) ...
Neural Nets and Theories of Memory
(1963-03-01)
A number of models developed in work often called "neural-net" research may be of interest to physiologists working on the problem of memory. From this work comes a variety of ideas on how networks of neuron-like elements ...
Manipulator Design Vignettes
(1981-10-01)
This memo is about mechanical arms. The literature on robotics seems to be deficient in such discussions, perhaps because not enough sharp theoretical problems have been formulated to attract interest. I"m sure many of ...
Jokes and the Logic of the Cognitive Unconscious
(1980-11-01)
Freud's theory of jokes explains how they overcome the mental "censors" that make it hard for us to think "forbidden" thoughts. But his theory did not work so well for humorous nonsense as for other comical subjects. ...
Manipulator Design Vignettes
(1972-10-01)
This memo is about mechanical arms. The literature on robotics seems to be deficient in such discussions, perhaps because not enough sharp theoretical problems have been formulated to attract interest. I'm sure many ...
Remarks on Correlation Tracking
(1967-03-01)
The problem is to track the motion of part of a field of view. Let us assume that the scene is a two-dimensional picture in a plane perpendicular to the roll axis. (these simplifying assumptions, of course, are a main ...
Design of the Hand
(1965-08-01)
The following scheme for designing a general-purpose manipulator organ has many theoretical attractions. The basic idea is perhaps best conceived as a theoretical, or mathematical, idea. While it is unlikely that the actual ...
Television Camera-To-Computer Adapter: PDP-6 Device 770
(1965-01-01)
The TVA (Television Adaptor) is a data-input device just completed. Any standard Closed-Circuit Television Camera can be connected to the PDP-6, without modification, by a single BNC connector. Then a simple program can ...
Matter, Mind and Models
(1965-03-01)
This paper attempts to explain why people become confused by questions about the relation between menal and physical events. When a question leads to confused, inconsistent answers, this may be (1) because the question is ...
Linear Separation and Learning
(1968-10-01)
This is a reprint of page proofs of Chapter 12 of Perceptrons, M. Minsky and S. Papert, MIT Press 1968, (we hope). It replaces A.I. Memo No. 156 dated March 1968. The perceptron and convergence theorems of Chapter 11 are ...