Table of Contents
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| Features | |
| Introduction | 100 |
| Circia's Circuit Cellar: Build the Home Run Control System, Part 1: Introduction | 102 |
| Energy management, convience, and security in one package |
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| Steve Ciarcia |
| Coprocessing in Modula-2 | 113 |
| The key to writing concurrent programs is coordination |
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| Colleen Roe Wilson |
| A Million-Point Graphics Tablet | 120 |
| How to build low-cost graphics for the Z-100 |
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| James Hawley |
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| Themes | |
| Introduction | 124 |
| Communication with Alien Intelligence | 126 |
| It may not be as difficult as you think |
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| Marvin Minsky |
| The Quest to Undestand Thinking | 143 |
| It begins not with complex isses but with the most trivial of processes |
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| Roger Schank, Larry Hunter |
| The LISP Tutor | 159 |
| It approaches the effectiveness of a human tutor |
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| John R. Anderson, Brian J. Reiser |
| PROUST | 179 |
| An automatic debugger for Pascal programs |
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| W. Lewis Johnson, Elliot Soloway |
| Architectures for AI | 193 |
| Hardware and software for efficient processing |
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| Michael F. Deering |
| The LISP Revolution | 209 |
| LISP is no longer limited to a lucky few |
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| Patrick H. Winston |
| The Challenge of Open Systems | 223 |
| Current logic programming methods may be insufficient for developing the intelligent systems of the future |
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| Carl Hewitt |
| Vision | 245 |
| Biology challenges technology |
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| Dana H. Ballard, Christopher M. Brown |
| Learning in Parallel Networks | 265 |
| Simulating learning in a probablistic system |
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| Geoffrey E. Hinton |
| Connections | 277 |
| Massive parallelism in natural and artificial intelligence |
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| Jerome A. Feldman |
| Reverse Engineering the Brain | 286 |
| Chipping away at the brain |
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| John K. Stevens |
| The Technology of Expert Systems | 303 |
| Transplanting expert knowledge to machines |
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| Robert H. Michaelsen, Donald Michie |
| Inside an Expert System | 315 |
| From index cards to Pascal program |
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| Beverly A. Thompson, William A. Thompson |
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| Reviews | |
| Introduction | 334 |
| Reviewer's Notebook | 337 |
| Glenn Hartwig |
| The ITT XTRA | 338 |
| It's compatible with - and it improves upon - the IBM PC |
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| John D. Unger |
| Insight - A Knowledge system | 345 |
| An expert system with limited potential |
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| Bruce D'Ambrosio |
| Review Feedback | 348 |
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| Kernel | |
| Introduction | 353 |
| Computing at Chaos Manor: Over the Moat | 355 |
| Golem Crashes, The Name Game, Copy-Protection Blues, The Elusive S1, Network Confusion, Great Software Purge and CP/M Bargains |
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| Jerry Pournelle |
| Chaos Manor Mail | 373 |
| Jerry Pournelle |
| BYTE West Coast: Lasers, Office Publishing, and More | 379 |
| Interleaf's OPS-2000 and TPS-2000, FastFinder |
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| John Markoff, Phillip Robinson |
| BYTE U.K.: New Database Ideas | 389 |
| Frame theory used in a database generator |
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| Dick Pountain |
| BYTE Japan: The Fifth Generation in Japan | 401 |
| ICOT, The Hitachi S-810 supercomputer and Software development |
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| William M. Raike |
| Circuit Cellar Feedback | 408 |
| Steve Ciarcia |
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| Editorial: Golfers and Hackers | 6 |
| Phil Lemmons |
| Microbytes | 9 |
Macintosh Usrs Get IBM PC Emulator
New Mac Products Shown
Microsoft Releases Its Own C Compiler
New LCD Portables Use Backlit Display
Proteon adds 80-megabit-per-second Network
Intel Will Sell caTech's Hybercube Multiprocessor Computer
Torus Prepares to Launch LAN Software
NANOBYTES |
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| Letters | 14 |
| Fixes and Updates | 33 |
Update: C Changes Quickly
Feedback: Printer Buffer Messaged
Bytes's Bugs:
Communication on Mode Gets Garbled (December 1984)
Corrections from Commodore (February 1985) |
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| What's New | 39, 440 |
| Ask BYTE | 48 |
| Steve Ciarcia |
| Clubs & Newsletters | 58 |
| Book Reviews | 65 |
Build Your Own Expert System
Artificial Intelligence in Basic
The Cognitive Computer: On Language, Learning and Artificial Intelligence |
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| Ramachandran Bharath, Norman J. Chaplin, Darrow Kirkpatrick |
| Event Queue | 83 |
| What's Not | 96 |
Knifle the Mac (Ennui Associates MacKnifer)
Noveau-Chic Luggage (The Spike Untermeyer Luggage Company)
One for the Road (Honda Corporation Transponter)
New Arrival (Celebrity Software Princess Di Database)
New Mag (High Press Technologies HipTech Personal Photocopying)
Home on the Database (ThinkFast Software MOM)
A Taste of Security (Soycure Systems of Tokyo Parasoya Disks)
Keeping Time to Yourself (ApresHeures Computing Incognito) |
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| Books Received | 414 |
| Programming Insight: Load Assembler Routines from Basic | 429 |
| This method enhances the maintainability of your programs |
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| Douglas F. Yriart |
| Unclassified Ads | 493 |
| BYTE's Ongoing Monitor Box, BOMB Results | 494 |
| Reader Service | 495 |
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