Research Catalog

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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Details

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