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- AI EXPERT magazine
- December 1986
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- Catching Knowledge in Neural Nets
- by C.C. Jorgensen and C. Matheus
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- The imitation of biological processes as a basis for AI
- computation has a long history marked by periods of feverish
- activity, fading interest, and resurrection. A flurry of clever
- software and hardware developments has sparked a reevaluation in
- the AI community as some amazing 'mind-machine' fusions pull
- neural networks away from the future and into focus today.
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- Intelligence and the Computer:
- The Central Role of Representation
- by Oscar Firschein and Martin Fischler
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- Can intelligence be defined as the ability to create and
- manipulate descriptions? Will expert systems technology ever
- reach the point where machines replace humans in decision-making
- tasks? Here we take a look at the central role played by the way
- knowledge is encoded.
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- Understanding Frame Languages, Part II
- Implementing PFL
- by Tim Finin
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- Last month we introduced the general, underlying concepts behind
- frame-based representation languages. This month let's focus on
- a functional description of PFL and show portions of the Common
- LISP code that actually implements it.
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- Knowledge Engineering in Practice
- by Walter G. Rolandi
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- There is some confusion surrounding the actual application of
- knowledge engineering within a defined business context. Applied
- Behavior Analysis is one methodology within this emerging field
- of software development that is quite interesting when compared
- to traditional systems analysis.
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- Departments
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- Brain Waves
- "The AI Triangle: R&D, End User,, and Mainstream Markets"
- by Lee Hecht, C.E.O., Teknowledge
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- AI Insider
- by Susan Shepard
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- Expert's Toolbox
- "Retrieval from a Frame Data Base"
- by Jonathan Amsterdam
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- AI Apprentice
- "Pascal and LISP: A Tale of Two Languages"
- by Beverly and Bill Thompson
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- In Practice
- "Second Thoughts About AAAI '86"
- by Henry Eric Firdman
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- Bookstore
- "PROLOG by the Book, Guru, Simulation, and Assessment"
- by Dr. Lance Eliot
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- Software Review
- "Level Five Research: Insight 2+"
- by Mike Fichtelman
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