In Lea, Trends, 294-315.

In Lea, W, (Ed.). Trends in speech recognition. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1980, 39-89

Classic Ph.D. dissertations by Randall Davis and Douglas Lenat, reprinted together in one volume. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, IEEE International Conference on ICASSP '77, Vol 2, pp. 784-787, May 1977

The Stanford AI lab cart is a card-table sized mobile robot controlled remotely through a radio link, and equipped with a TV camera and transmitter. A computer has been programmed to drive the cart through cluttered indoor and outdoor spaces, gaining its knowledge about the world entirely from images broadcast by the onboard TV system.The cart deduces the three dimensional location of objects around it, and its own motion among them, by noting their apparent relative shifts in successive images obtained from the moving TV camera. It maintains a model of the location of the ground, and registers objects it has seen as potential obstacles if they are sufficiently above the surface, but not too high. It plans a path to a user-specified destination which avoids these obstructions. This plan is changed as the moving cart perceives new obstacles on its journey.The system is moderately reliable, but very slow. The cart moves about one meter every ten to fifteen minutes, in lurches. After rolling a meter, it stops, takes some pictures and thinks about them for a long time. Then it plans a new path, and executes a little of it, and pauses again.

Proceedings of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Philadelphia, 59-63

ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 2(1): 90-121.

"The contract net protocol has been developed to specify problem-solving communication and control for nodes in a distributed problem solver. Task distribution is affected by a negotiation process, a discussion carried on between nodes with tasks to be executed and nodes that may be able to execute those tasks. We present the specification of the protocol and demonstrate its use in the solution of a problem in distributed sensing. The utility of negotiation as an interaction mechanism is discussed. It can be used to achieve different goals, such as distributing control and data to avoid bottlenecks and enabling a finer degree of control in making resource allocation and focus decisions than is possible with traditional mechanisms." IEEE Transactions on Computers C-29(12):1104-1113. PDF: http://www.reidgsmith.com/The_Contract_Net_Protocol_Dec-1980.pdf.

American Journal of Computational Linguistics, Volume 6, Number 2, April-June 1980

In AAAI-80, pp. 102–104.