Artificial Intelligence

The broad range of material included in these volumes suggests to the newcomer the
nature of the field of artificial intelligence, while those with some background in AI will
appreciate the detailed coverage of the work being done at MIT. The results presented are related to
the underlying methodology. Each chapter is introduced by a short note outlining the scope of the
problem begin taken up or placing it in its historical context.Contents, Volume
II: Understanding Vision: Representing and Computing Visual Information; Visual Detection of Light
Sources; Representing and Analyzing Surface Orientation; Registering Real Images Using Synthetic
Images; Analyzing Curved Surfaces Using Reflectance Map Techniques; Analysis of Scenes from a Moving
Viewpoint; Manipulation and Productivity Technology: Force Feedback in Precise Assembly Tasks; A
Language for Automatic Mechanical Assembly; Kinematics, Statics, and Dynamics of Two-Dimensional
Manipulators; Understanding Manipulator Control by Synthesizing Human Handwriting; Computer Design
and Symbol Manipulation: The LISP Machine; Shallow Binding in LISP 1.5; Optimizing Allocation and
Garbage Collection of Spaces; Compiler Optimization Based on Viewing LAMBDA as RENAME Plus GOTO;
Control Structure as Patterns of Passing Messages.