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Multi-computer architectures for artificial intelligence : toward fast, robust, parallel systems

Title
Multi-computer architectures for artificial intelligence : toward fast, robust, parallel systems / Leonard Uhr.
Author
Uhr, Leonard Merrick, 1927-
Publication
New York : Wiley, ©1987.

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Description
xii, 358 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Artificial intelligence > Data processing
  • Parallel processing (Electronic computers)
  • Computer networks
  • Computer architecture
  • Computer Communication Networks
  • Artificial intelligence > Data processing
  • Computer architecture
  • Computer networks
  • Computerarchitektur
  • Künstliche Intelligenz
  • Parallelrechner
  • Computerarchitektur
  • Parallelrechner
Note
  • "A Wiley-Interscience publication."
  • Includes indexes.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 310-339.
Contents
Key artificial intelligence problems, and architectures -- Universal Turing machines and the theoretical basis of computers -- Conventional general-purpose single-cpu serial computers and super-computers -- The present, impending, and future technological possibilities -- The basic graph topologies from which multi-computers can be constructed -- The basic hardware and software components of multi-computers -- Linking small numbers of computers into pseudo-complete graphs -- Pipelines and assembly lines -- Very large networks structured into arrays -- Augmented arrays, pyramids: toward augmented pyramids -- Point-to-point linked topologies for large MIMD multi-computers -- Good (and a few optimal) topologies for multi-computers -- Toward very large MIMD networks with potentially millions of computers -- Toward more generally usable and/or more algorithm-structured architectures -- The human mind/brain, and possibilities of parallelism in each AI function -- Perception: image processing, pattern recognition, computer vision -- Structuring and accessing symbolic, linguistic, iconic and perceptual information -- Speech and language: analysis, recognition, understanding -- Problem-solving, theorem-proving, deciding: "expert systems" -- Robot motor control and coordination -- Learning -- Wholistic systems that integrate several intelligent processes -- A critical look at architectures proposed for AI -- Suggestions as to the most promising architectures -- Parallel architectures summarized, and several key issues.
ISBN
  • 0471849790
  • 9780471849797
LCCN
86015746
OCLC
  • ocm13822605
  • 13822605
  • SCSB-9151381
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library