We note with sorrow the passing of Don Waterman, who died on January 4, 1987. Don was one of the pioneers of our field, whose early research built the foundation for the area that would later come to be labeled "knowledge based systems" (and still later "expert systems").

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To know that the other suffers, we have to close the gap between us in an act of empathy. Only then can we begin Editor. Whatever his other attitudes, Dr. Frankenstein knows that his creation suffers In his interesting article "Artificial Intelligence and Ethics: and knows it in the way he knows human beings suffer. An Exercise in the Moral Imagination," Michael LaChat Closely connected to this is the point that just as we have says that the basic outline of Shelley's Frmkensteirz needs to the moral obligation not to err on the wrong side in the fulfillment be recapitulated "even if, as is usually the case, the reader of our obligations toward suffering human beings (that has seen only the poor image of the book in movie form " is, WC should not fail to fulfill our obligations toward them Contrary to what Mr. LaChat says, I think the poor image just because we think they are not really suffering or, worse, most people have of the book is sufficient reason to give a because we haven't been able to prove that they are really short outline of the original story. Doing this, we find one or suffering), we ought not to err on the wrong side for the two arguments that were not mentioned in LaChat's article wrong reason in the case of suffering artifacts.

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One to organize the construction teams. One to hack the planning system. How many AI people does it take to change a lightbulb? One to get Westinghouse to sponsor the research. One to indicate about how the robot mimics human motor A. At least 55: The knowledge engineering group (6): One to define the goal state.

He then proved that In addition, I noticed that John McCarthy was snapping network representations (such as that of the brain) cannot freely with his camera at the workshop. He may have some possibly exhibit intelligence-tapes, as in Turing Machines, amusing illustrations of the unlikely events rec0rded.l

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In fact, such a pattern can itself be considered a frame, where the position of each pixel is a slot, and the shade or A recent article by Ronald Brachman (Brachman, color at each pixel is then the attached value. It should 1985) points out some philosophical or semantic problems then be possible to represent this pattern as I have just in using the notion of a prototype, which is described by described it-z.e., by a frame representing the background, using default properties. The problem arises since default partially obscured or covered by a frame representing the properties can be overridden or cancelled in representing object of interest, partially obscured or covered by some particular instances, and therefore lack definitional power: other objects. The fact that some part of the object of interest is obscured does not mean that it is no longer there, nor As an example, Brachman presents an elephant joke: that it is not intrinsic to the object's definition. Q: What's big and gray, has a trunk, and lives in the trees?