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Computers and Thought

Edited by Edward A. Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman

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NOTE: All sections are available as downloadable pdf files; most individual chapters are also available separately.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Part 1: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Introduction

Section 1. Can a Machine Think?

COMPUTING MACHINERY AND INTELLIGENCE A. M. Turing

Section 2. Machines That Play Games

CHESS-PLAYING PROGRAMS AND THE PROBLEM OF COMPLEXITY Allen Newell, J.C. Shaw and H.A. Simon

SOME STUDIES IN MACHINE LEARNING USING THE GAME OF CHECKERS A. L. Samuel

Section 3. Machines That Prove Mathematical Theorems

EMPIRICAL EXPLORATIONS WITH THE LOGIC THEORY MACHINE: A CASE STUDY IN HEURISTICS Allen Newell J.C. Shaw and H.A. Simon

REALIZATION OF A GEOMETRY-THEOREM PROVING MACHINE H. Gelernter

EMPIRICAL EXPLORATIONS OF THE GEOMETRY-THEOREM PROVING MACHINE H. Gelernter, J.R. Hansen, and D. W. Loveland

Section 4. Two Important Applications

SUMMARY OF A HEURISTIC LINE BALANCING PROCEDURE Fred M. Tonge

A HEURISTIC PROGRAM THAT SOLVES SYMBOLIC INTEGRATION PROBLEMS IN FRESHMAN CALCULUS James R. Slagle

Section 5. Question-answering Machines

BASEBALL: AN AUTOMATIC QUESTION ANSWERER Green, Bert F. Jr., Alice K. Wolf, Carol Chomsky, and Kenneth Laughery

INFERENTIAL MEMORY AS THE BASIS OF MACHINES WHICH UNDERSTAND NATURAL LANGUAGE Robert K. Lindsay

Section 6. Pattern Recognition

PATTERN RECOGNITION BY MACHINE Oliver G. Selfridge and Ulric Neisser

A PATTERN-RECOGNITION PROGRAM THAT GENERATES, EVALUATES, AND ADJUSTS ITS OWN OPERATORS Leonard Uhr and Charles Vossler

Part 2: SIMULATION OF COGNITIVE PROCESSES

Introduction

Section 1. Problem-solving

GPS, A PROGRAM THAT SIMULATES HUMAN THOUGHT Allen Newell and H.A. Simon

Section 2. Verbal Learning and Concept Formation

THE SIMULATION OF VERBAL LEARNING BEHAVIOR Edward A. Feigenbaum

PROGRAMMING A MODEL OF HUMAN CONCEPT FORMULATION Earl B. Hunt and Carl I. Hovland

Section 3. Decision-making under Uncertainty

SIMULATION OF BEHAVIOR IN THE BINARY CHOICE EXPERIMENT Julian Feldman

A MODEL OF THE TRUST INVESTMENT PROCESS Geoffrey P. E. Clarkson

Section 4. Social Behavior

A COMPUTER MODEL OF ELEMENTARY SOCIAL BEHAVIOR John T. Gullahorn and Jeanne E. Gullahorn

PART 3: SURVEY OF APPROACHES AND ATTITUDES

Introduction

ATTITUDES TOWARD INTELLIGENT MACHINES Paul Armer

STEPS TOWARD ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Marvin Minsky

Part 4: BIBLIOGRAPHY

A SELECTED DESCRIPTOR-INDEXED BIBLIOGRAPHY TO THE LITERATURE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Marvin Minsky

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