Artificial Intelligence 9:1-35

Technical Report PRI 19A, Panoramic Research, Inc, Palo Alto, CA, 1965

Technical Report, Panoramic Research, Inc, Palo Alto, CA

"MANY EFFORTS have been made to discriminate,  categorize, and quantitate patterns, and  to reduce them into a usable machine language.  The results have ordinarily been methods or devices  with a high degree of specificity. For example, some  devices require a special type font; others can read  only one type font; still others require magnetic ink. We have an interest in decision-making circuits  with the following qualities: (1) measurable high reliability  in decision making, (2) either a high or a low  reliability input, and (3) possibly low reliability components.  The high specificity of the devices and  methods mentioned above was felt to be a drawback  for our purposes. All of these approaches prove upon inspection to center upon analysis of the specific  characteristics of patterns into parts, followed by a  synthesis of the whole from the parts. In these  studies, pattern recognition of the whole, that is, Gestalt recognition, was chosen as a more fruitful  avenue of approach and as a satisfactory problem for  the initial phases of the over-all study." Proceedings of the Eastern Joint Computer Conference, pp. 225-232, New York: Association for Computing Machinery