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Physics envy

AI is the study of intellectual mechanisms and problems and
the use of the former to solve the latter.
The prospects for artificial intelligence.
After almost 30 years, one must still talk about prospects.
Cognology

Disclaimer of expertise about expert systems.
Expert systems in mechanics
I'll talk about what interests me.

They don't have common sense - mycin

How chess programs get by without common sense.  The Berliner position.
The Barwise position.
What is common sense, and when is it needed?

rationalizing the specialization to epistemology
learning.  Hard to learn what you can't be told.
heuristics and epistemology

procedural and declarative - compromises

situation calculus and the STRIPS compromise

common sense physics and the common sense context of scientific physics
- the prose around the equations.

gravitation in different notation?

the qualification problem, non-monotonic reasoning and circumscription

slides, mycin faults, 

Sten-Ake Tarnlund
13th jan till 5th feb in area mainly at SRI
ibm san jose and xerox