Browsing Artificial Intelligence Lab Publications by Author "Agre, Philip E."

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    • The Assq Chip and Its Progeny 

      Agre, Philip E. (MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1982-01)
      The Assq Chip lives on the memory bus of the Scheme-81 chip of Sussman et al and serves as a utility for the computation of a number of functions concerned with the maintenance of linear tables and lists. Motivated by a ...

    • The Dynamic Structure of Everyday Life 

      Agre, Philip E. (1988-10-01)
      Computational theories of action have generally understood the organized nature of human activity through the construction and execution of plans. By consigning the phenomena of contingency and improvisation to ...

    • Routines 

      Agre, Philip E. (1985-05-01)
      Regularities in the word give rise to regularities in the way which we deal with the world. That is to say, we fall into routines. I have been studying the phenomena of routinization, the process by which institutionalized ...

    • The Structures of Everyday Life 

      Agre, Philip E. (MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1985-02)
      This note descends from a talk I gave at the AI Lab's Revolving Seminar series in November 1984. I offer it as an informal introduction to some work I've been doing over the last year on common sense reasoning. Four themes ...

    • Virtual Inclusion 

      Chapman, David; Agre, Philip E. (MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1983-09)
      Several recent knowledge-representation schemes have used virtual copies for storage efficiency. Virtual copes are confusing. In the course of trying to understand, implement, and use Jon Doyle's SDL virtual copy mechanism, ...

    • What a Parallel Programming Language Has to Let You Say 

      Bawden, Alan; Agre, Philip E. (1984-09-01)
      We have implemented in simulation a prototype language for the Connection Machine called CL1. CL1 is an extrapolation of serial machine programming language technology: in CL1 one programs the individual processors ...

    • What Are Plans For? 

      Agre, Philip E.; Chapman, David (1989-10-01)
      What plans are like depends on how they're used. We contrast two views of plan use. On the plan-as-program-view, plan use is the execution of an effective procedure. On the plan-as-communication view, plan use is like ...

    • What to Read: A Biased Guide to AI Literacy for the Beginner 

      Agre, Philip E. (MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1972-11)
      This note tries to provide a quick guide to AI literacy for the beginning AI hacker and for the experienced AI hacker or two whose scholarship isn't what it should be. most will recognize it as the same old list of classic ...

    • Writing and Representation 

      Agre, Philip E. (MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1988-09)
      This paper collects several notes I've written over the last year in an attempt to work through my dissatisfactions with the ideas about representation I was taught in school. Among these ideas are the notion of a 'world ...