Artificial Intelligence Lab Publications: Recent submissions

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    • A Primer for the Act-1 Language 

      Theriault, Daniel G. (MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1981-06)
      This document is intended to describe the current design for computer programming language, Act-1. It describes the Actor computational model, which Act-1 was designed to support. A perspective is provided from which to ...

    • The Disciplined Use of Simplifying Assumptions 

      Rich, Charles; Waters, Richard C. (MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1981-12)
      Simplifying assumptions — everyone uses them but no one's programming tool explicitly supports them. In programming, as in other kinds of engineering design, simplifying assumptions are an important method for dealing with ...

    • Presentation Based User Interfaces 

      Ciccarelli, Eugene C. (MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1981-07)
      This research will develop a methodology for designing user interfaces for general-purpose interactive systems. The central concept is the presentation, a structured pictorial or text object conveying information about ...