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There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.

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Stanley Kubrick knew we had good graphics around MIT and came to my lab to find out how to do it. We had some really good stuff. I was very impressed with Kubrick; he knew all the graphics work I had ever heard of, and probably more.

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You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

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This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on.

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In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.

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No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.

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We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.

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Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers.

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When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.

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There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: August 9th, 1927

Died: January 24th, 2016

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