Burmese Observations May 1971

1971 , Volume , Issue Feb-1971

This impressive or CAÃ, system makes impressive contributions to the state of the art of CAI. It's a combination of field-proven hardware, a standard computer language, and well tested curricula. The first curriculum is an elementary mathematics drill and practice program. THAT A NEW PRODUCT SHOULD contribute substantially to the state of the art has long been a philosophical tenet at Hewlett-P...

Burmese Eclipse Calculations

Two Burmese eclipse calculations, one lunar and one solar, are analysed using examples from a Burmese manuscript. The fundamental parameters are with some important exceptions the same as in the Suryasiddhanta, but the handling of, for instance, parallax in the solar eclipse is different and much simplified. Specific to Burma are also the shadow calculations.

Sloman 1971

This paper echoes, from a philosophical standpoint, the claim of McCarthy and Hayes that Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence have important relations. Philosophical problems about the use of 'intuition' in reasoning are related, via a concept of analogical representation, to problems in the simulation of perception, problem-solving and the generation of useful sets of possibilities in consid...

Dialog 1971

Psycho-collocational expressives in Burmese