Yale Artificial Intelligence Project

The Yale Artificial Intelligence Project, under the direction of Professor Roger C. Schank, supports a number of research projects Most of this research is in the area of attempting to model the processes involved in human understanding, with a current emphasis on memory models and the processes involved in learning. It has been a consistent philosophy of research at Yale that these projects should build on each other’s contributions, sharing representational strategies and attempting to work towards a unified concept of representation. Aspects of the representation which has been developed may be found in the literature [I, 21. Yale also supports a Cognitive Science program, which is under the direction of Professors Roger C. Schank and Robert P. Abelson. The Cognitive Science program works closely with the AI project in attempting to do experiments which test predictions made by the theories developed in writing AI programs and provide input to AI researchers about the processes they are attempting to model. [20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 251. In addition to the work on natural language, Assistant Professor Drew McDermott is working on a project in spatial reasoning. The following is a list of most of the projects currently being worked on at Yale, with a brief discussion of the goals of each project and selected references.