Part of the Media Laboratory's Steve Benton on an advanced beammixing information. Like Richard Feynman's heritage (its origins are in the television display), (4) movies two books of memoirs and School of Architecture) is a startling of the future (putting feature-length Gleick's Chaos, this book will be receptivity to the arts, especially movies on laser disks, thereby ushering passed among workers in computer music and the visual arts, and Brand in paperback movies), (5) the visible and engineering departments as a repeatedly returns to this subject.

To be considered exceptional, a textbook must satisfy three basic requirements. First, it must be authoritative, written by one with a broad range of experience in, and knowledge of, a subject. Second, it must effectively communicate to the reader, in the same manner in which a course instructor must be capable of imparting knowledge to students in a classroom. Third, it must stimulate the reader into thinking more deeply about the subject and into viewing it from fresh perspectives. In Artificial Intelligence: A Knowledge-Based Approach (Boyd and Fraser, Boston, 740 pp., $48.95), author Morris W. Firebaugh has succeeded in meeting each of these requirements.

In the last few years, interest has grown in exploring AI approaches to design problems, both because of the enormous potential impact on productivity of improved design tools and because of the interesting basic AI issues that these problems raise. In particular, a number of ship designers and AI researchers recently became interested in applying AI to the hydrodynamic design of ship hulls. A typical problem here is to design the shape of a ship's hull in response to desired hydrodynamic properties such as drag and stability, taking into consideration a variety of design constraints, such as total hull volume.

AI Magazine Volume 10 Number 4 (1989) ( AAAI) generated some controversy. Relative to the discussion of the role of strong syllables in lexical segmentation, Gerry Altmann of CSTR reviewed some of the evidence based on computational studies of large The 1988 Workshop on Cognitive bone. Evidence from human studies computerized lexicons (20,000 Models of Speech Processing was suggested that the spurious word is words). This evidence suggested that held at Park Hotel Fiorelle, Sperlonga, activated, even though in principle it a stressed syllable conveys more Italy, on 16-20 May 1988. Twentyfive would be possible to prevent this activation information about the identity of the participants gathered in this by only accessing the lexicon at word in which it occurs than an small coastal village, where the the offset of some previously found unstressed syllable.

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The designer's input can be manually added to Design Automation: Automated Full-which itself is awkward) in the The author is criticizing the capability Custom VLSI Layout Using the Ulysses script environment, which considerably of the Weaver system (a knowledge-based Design Environment (Academic Press, reduces the power and authority circuit interconnections Boston, Massachusetts, 1988, 463 of the demonstration. This disappointing router) to restart, continue (that is, to pages) by Michael L. Bushnell deals demonstration might be the be interrupted), or accept that a user with an interesting and challenging result of the project's ambitious nature might specify some routing channels. A The book is misleading in its treatment achieve. The problem here is not the system called Ulysses that implements of some key points. Any routing expert blackboard architecture is described.

This article is a summary of the Workshop on Explanation held during the 1988 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence in St. Paul, Minnesota. The purpose of the workshop was to identify key research issues in the rapidly emerging area of expert system explanation.

Problem-solving techniques such as modeling, simulation, optimization, and network analysis have been used extensively to help agricultural scientists and practitioners understand and control biological systems. By their nature, most of these systems are difficult to quantitatively define. Many of the models and simulations that have been developed lack a user interface which enables people other than the developer to use them. As a result, several scientists are integrating knowledge-based- system (KBS) technology with conventional problem-solving techniques to increase the robustness and usability of their systems. To investigate the similarities and differences of leading scientists' approaches, a pioneer workshop, supported by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the Knowledge Systems Area of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, was held in San Antonio, Texas, on 10-12 August 1988. Part of the AAAI Applied Workshop Series, the meeting was intended to bring together researchers and practitioners active in applying AI concepts to agricultural problems.

Over the last eight years, four workshops on machine learning have been held. Participation in these workshops was by invitation only. In response to the rapid growth in the number of researchers active in machine learning, it was decided that the fifth meeting should be a conference with open attendance and full review for presented papers. Thus, the first open conference on machine learning took place 12 to 14 June 1988 at The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

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