Hans P. Moravec
PUBLICATIONS
Robots, After All,
in
Communications of the ACM, October 2003, pp. 90-97
(invited by Andrew Rosenbloom)
Robotics (encyclopedia article),
for
Encyclopaedia Britannica, July 2003
(invited by William Hosch)
with Scott Friedman,
SEEGRID Corporation,
operating in Pittsburgh, PA,
incorporated February 2003
Mass-market mobile utility robot development:
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SEEGRID Startup Announcement,
June 16, 2003
Commercialization Feeler,
September 30, 2002
- DARPA-sponsored research:
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Progress report 7 (Transition), September 15, 2002
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Progress report 6 (Higher fidelity), February 25, 2002
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Progress report 5 (Trinocular run), July 1, 2001
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Progress report 4 (Photorealism!?), March 20, 2001
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Progress report 3 (Learning by coloring), June 20, 2000
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Progress report 2 (Image rectification), January 20, 2000
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Progress report 1 (Project overview), August 5, 1999
- proposal:
Robust Navigation by
Probabilistic Volumetric Sensing, January 1999
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abstract, December 1998
Dense 3D Perception for Broad Mobile Robot Applications,
proposal abstract for
DARPA BAA0221, February 2003
Robots: Re-evolving Minds at 107 Times Nature's Speed,
in
Cerebrum, v3n2, Spring 2001, pp. 34-49
(invited by Walter Donway)
informal reports:
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Robot Predictions Evolution
, April 2004
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SIMPLER Equations for Vinge's Technological
Singularity, October 2003
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Simple Equations for Vinge's Technological
Singularity, February 1999
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Kubrick's A.I. and Mind Children, June 25, 2001
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Re-Evolving Mind, December 2000
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Robot Evolution Talk, October 2000
Ripples and Puddles, Web publication, April 2000
in
EDGE 72, July 26, 2000 (invited by John Brockman)
Kleine Wellen und Pfützen,
in Telepolis, November
2000 (German translation by Ronald Voullié)
Rise of the Robots,
in
Scientific American, December 1999, pp. 124-135
(invited by John Rennie)
[original draft:
Robots Among Us]
Simulación, conciencia, existencia, in
Arte Facto & Ciencia: Marcel-lí Antúnez Roca -
Epifanía (book accompanying Antúnez museum
exhibition), Claudia Gianetti, ed., pp. 55-71, Fundación
Telefonica, Barcelona, September 1999 (Spanish translation, invited by
Claudia Gianetti)
The Universal Robot, in Ars Electronica: Facing the
Future, Timothy Druckrey, ed., pp. 116-123, MIT Press,
1999
informal reports:
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DECLINE TRAVEL NOTICE, September 1, 1999
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Letter re. Apr 8, 1999 NYRB Review by John Searle, March 25, 1999
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Letter re. Jan 3, 1999 NYT Review by Colin McGinn, January 7, 1999
Simulation, Consciousness, Existence,
in
Intercommunication 28, pp. 98-112, Spring 1999
(Japanese translation, invited by Takatoshi Shinoda)
with Jesse Easudes,
Fractal branching ultra-dexterous robots (Bush robots),
Final Report for NASA Advanced Concepts Research Project PR-10-86888,
NCC7-7, January 1999
Robot: mere machine to transcendent mind, Oxford
University Press, November 1998
Translations: German - Computer übernehmen die Macht: Vom
Siegeszug der künstlichen Intelligenz, Hoffman und Campe,
1999; Chinese - Shanghai Scientific & Technical Publishers, 2000;
Japanese - Shoeisha Co., Ltd., 2002; Hungarian - Europa Publishers, Budapest;
Korean - Bada Publishing
informal reports:
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Existence as Ascription, December 1998
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Robotbooks.com Interview
, September 1998
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Autonomous Free-Ranging Utility Robots
for Mass Market before 2005, January 1998
When will computer hardware match the human brain?,
Journal of Transhumanism, vol. 1, March 1998
(invited by Nick Bostrom)
The Senses have No Future (Die Sinne haben
keine Zukunft), in Proceedings of Der Sinn der Sinne
International Congress, Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik
Deutschland, Bonn, Germany, February 2, 1997, pp. 319-335, Steidl
Verlag, 1998 (invited and translated by Florian Rotzer) Also in The
Virtual Dimension: Architecture, Representation, and Crash
Culture, John Beckmann, ed., Princeton Architectural Press, 1998,
pp. 84-95.
with Jesse Easudes and Frank Dellaert,
Fractal branching ultra-dexterous robots (Bush robots)
quarterly reports for NASA Advanced Concepts Research Project
PR-10-86888, NCC7-7, December 1996 - 1998
with J. Beninghaus, M. Blackwell, K. Dowling, J. Hollowell,
Apparatus and Method for Determining the Charge of a Battery,
US Patent 5,596,260, issued January 21, 1997
Robot Spatial Perception by Stereoscopic Vision and 3D Evidence
Grids, CMU Robotics Institute Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-96-34,
September 1996. also Daimler Benz Research, Berlin, Technical Report,
1996
Korper, Roboter und Geist, in Die Technik auf dem Weg
zur Seele: Forschungen an der Schnittstelle Gehirn/Computer,
Christa Maar, Ernst Poppel, Thomas Christaller, eds, Rowohlt
Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbeck bei Hamburg, August 1996,
pp. 162:195. (German translation, invited by Christa Maar) Also on
CD-ROM, Mind Revolution: Hirnforschung im High-Tech Zeitalter Vom
revolutionaren Zusammenspiel zwichen Mensch, Gehirn und Computer,
New World Vision Multimedia GmbH, Munich, 1997
Simulation, Consciousness, Existence,
in Telepolis,
June 1996. (original English, and German
translation, invited by Florian Rotzer)
Geisteskinder: Universelle Roboter: In vierzig Jahren haben sie
uns uberholt, C'T magazin fur computer technik,
v1996n6, June 1996, pp. 98:104. (German translation, invited by Thomas
Schult)
with Martin C. Martin,
Robot Evidence Grids,
CMU Robotics Institute Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-96-06, March
1996
Korper, Roboter, Geist, Kunstforum, v133,
February-April 1996, pp. 98:112. (German translation, invited by
Florian Rotzer)
Roger Penrose's Gravitonic Brains,
PSYCHE, v2n1, May 1995. (invited by David Chalmers)
Brainmakers by David H. Freedman (book review), IEEE
Spectrum, February 1995. (invited by Glen Zorpette)
The Great 1980s AI Bubble: A Review of The Brain Makers, by
H.P. Newquist (book review), AI Magazine, Fall 1994. pp
86-87. (invited by Milind Tambe)
Robots: Shaping the Future, Asiaweek, August 10,
1994, pp. 30-35. (invited by Joseph Nagy)
The Universal Robot, in The World of 2044:
technological development and the future of society, Charles
Sheffield, Marcello Alonso and Morton Kaplan, eds., Paragon House,
1994, pp. 27-40
The Age of Robots, Extro 1, Proceedings of the
First Extropy Institute Conference on TransHumanist Thought, April
30-May 1, 1994, Max More, ed., pp. 84-100, Extropy Institute,
1994. (invited by Max More)
El futuro de los robots, Actualidad Technologica
(Madrid, Spain), v7ns66,67, April, May 1994, p. 24. (Spanish
translation)
Birth of a superorganism (book review of Metaman by
Gregory Stock), IEEE Spectrum, v31n5, May 1994, p. 12. (invited
by Glen Zorpette)
Das Zeitalter der Roboter, GDI Impuls (quarterly
journal of the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute for economics, Zurich,
Switzerland), v12#1, March 1994, pp. 54-65. (in German translation
invited by Karin Frick)
informal reports:
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Robots Inherit Human Minds, May 1994
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Hexagonal Cellular Automata, 1994
Der technische Homunkulus, Schweizerische Technische
Zeitschrift, 9-93, pp. 10-13, September 8, 1993, Zurich,
Switzerland. (German translation)
The Universal Robot, in Vision-21, Interdisciplinary
Science and Engineering in the Era of Cyberspace, NASA Conference
Publication 10129, pp. 35-42, March 1993. (invited by
G. Landis)
with Frederik Pohl,
Souls in Silicon, OMNI,
v16#2, November 1993, pp. 66-76
with Mike Blackwell,
Learning Sensor Models for Evidence
Grids, in CMU Robotics Institute 1991 Annual Research
Review, 1993, pp. 8-15
The Universal Robot, Siemens Review, v60#1,
pp. 36-41, January/February 1993. also appeared in German, French and
Spanish editions of Siemens review. (invited by A. F. Pease)
Pigs in Cyberspace, Extropy, #10, January
1993
Mental Augmentation (fictional scientific articles and
Email exchanges), in Wild Palms Reader, Roger Trilling, Stuart
Swezey (Editors), St. Martin's Press, 1993. (invited by Roger Trilling)
Pigs in Cyberspace, in Thinking Robots, an aware
internet and cyberpunk librarians: the 1992 LITA president's
program, Bruce Miller and Milton Wolf, ed., Library and
Information Technology Association, 1992, pp. 15:21
Letter from Moravec to Penrose, in Thinking Robots,
an aware internet and cyberpunk librarians: the 1992 LITA president's
program, Bruce Miller and Milton Wolf, ed., Library and
Information Technology Association, 1992, pp. 51:58
The Universal Robot, Visions of the Future,
Science Reviews Ltd., Northwood, England, 1992, pp. 65:74. Also in
Speculations in Science and Technology, v15#4, pp. 286-294,
December 1992. (invited by Clifford Pickover)
Time Travel and Computing, Extropy, #9, July
1992, pp. 15-20
The Universal Robot, The World&I, v7#1,
January 1992, pp. 34-43. (invited by Marcello Alonso)
The Universal Robot, Analog, v112#1&2,
January 1992, pp. 92-101
informal reports:
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Pigs in Cyberspace, April 1992
- On the Cosmology and Ecology of Cyberspace,
January 1992
- Mind Without Body, November 1991
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The Universal Robot, July 1991
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Time Travel and Computing, May 1991
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1st Results in Automatic Parameter Adjustment
Learning, January 1991
Caution! Robot Vehicle!, in Artificial Intelligence
and Mathematical Theory of Computation (John McCarthy
Festschrift), Vladimir Lifschitz, ed., Academic Press, 1991,
pp. 331-344 (invited by V. Lifschitz)
The Universal Robot, in Out of Control: Ars
Electronica 91, Gottfried Hattinger and Peter Weibel, eds.,
Landesverlag, Linz, Austria, September 1991, pp. 13-28 (invited by
G. Hattinger)
The Stanford Cart and the CMU Rover, in Autonomous
Robot Vehicles, I. J. Cox and G. T. Wilfong, eds, Springer-Verlag,
1990, pp. 407-419 (invited by I. J. Cox)
Inside the Robot Kingdom: Japan, Mechatronics and the coming
Robotopia by Frederik Schodt, (book review), American
Scientist, May/June 1990, pp. 285-286. (invited)
One small step for a Volksrobot, in Algorithm the
personal programming newsletter, v1.3, March/April 1990,
pp. 14-17. (invited by A.K. Dewdney)
Der Mensch als Maschine, in ZeitMagazin, Nr. 12,
March 16, 1990, pp. 28-34. (magazine of Die Zeit, Hamburg, in German
translation) (invited by Jorge Albrecht)
informal reports:
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Open Letter to Roger Penrose, February 1990
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After Life, September 1989
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Exceeding the Cosmos, July 1988
Robotertraume, GDI Impuls (quarterly journal of
the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute for economics, Zurich, Switzerland -
article published in German translation), v7#4, December 1989,
pp. 3-16. (invited by Karin Frick)
with Blackwell, M., Dowling, K., Young, S. and Zajicek, L.,
Automated Testing Apparatus for Screen Alignment, US Patent
4,897,721, issued January 1990
The Robot as Liberation from Human Nature, transcript of
1989 Hull Memorial Lecture, in Interactions:10, Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, December 1989,
pp. 32-42. (invited by Lance Schachterle)
The Coming Divorce in Human Nature, Whole Earth
Review, Summer 1989, pp. 12-16. (invited by Richard Kadrey)
with Cho, D. W.,
A Bayesian Method for Certainty Grids
(DVI format)
(See Figures here),
working notes of AAAI 1989 Spring Symposium Series, Symposium on
Mobile Robots, Stanford, CA, 1989
Human Culture: A Genetic Takeover Underway, in
Artificial Life (Volume VI, Santa Fe Institute Studies in the
Sciences of Complexity), Christopher G. Langton, editor, Addison
Wesley, New York, 1989, pp. 167-200. (invited by Chris Langton)
Certainty Grids for Sensor Fusion in Mobile Robots
(DVI format), in
Sensor Devices and Systems for Robotics, Alicia Casals, ed.,
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1989, pp. 243-276 (invited by Alicia
Casals). Also CMU Robotics Institute 1987 Annual Research
Review, 1988, pp. 33-48. Also in AI Magazine v9#2, Summer
1988, pp. 61-77. (invited by Avi Kak)
Mind Children: the future of robot and human intelligence,
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October
1988
Translations: German - Mind Children: der Wettlauf zwichen
menschlicher und kunstlicher Intelligenz, Hoffman und Campe, 1990;
French - Une Vie Apres la Vie, Odile Jacob, 1992;
Spanish - El Hombre Mechanico, Temas de Hoy,
1990; Japanese - Machines as Life (trans.),
Iwanami Shoten, 1991; Portuguese - Homens e
Robots: O Futuro da Inteligencia Humana e Robotica, Gradiva, 1992;
Italian - Boringhieri
Harvard Doesn't Publish Science Fiction:
1-Superdense
Computers;
2-Time and
Alternity by Computer;
3-The Harmonies
of the Sphere;
in New Destinies, Volume III, Jim Baen, ed., Baen Books,
February 1988, pp. 212-247
Certainty Grids for Mobile Robots
(DVI format), Proceedings of the
NASA/JPL Space Telerobotics Workshop, January 22, 1987, Volume
1, pp. 307-312. (invited by Raj Doshi)
Engines of Creation by Eric K. Drexler (book review),
Technology Review, V89n7, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
October 1986, pp. 76-77. (invited by Sandra Hackman)
informal reports:
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Bayesian Grids, February 1987
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Sensing versus Inferring in Robot Control, January 1987
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Time and Alternity by Computer, July 1986
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The Harmonies of the Sphere, July 1986
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Orbital Bridges, July 1986
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Three Dimensional Images from Cheap Sonar, December 1985
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Indeterminacy, Time Dilation and Higher Dimensionality
from a Classical Model, March 1985
with M. Kadonoff, F. Benayad-Cherif, A. Franklin, J. Maddox, L.Muller,
B. Sert, Arbitration of Multiple Control Strategies for Mobile
Robots, SPIE conference on Advances in Intelligent Robotics
Systems, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 26-31, 1986. In SPIE
Proceedings Vol 727, paper 727-10
Mobile Robots and General Intelligence, MIT Sea Grant
Program and Wallace Lecture Seminar, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
22-23 October 1986, in Undersea Teleoperators and Intelligent
Autonomous Vehicles, edited by Norman Doelling and Elizabeth
Harding, MIT Sea Grant College Program, MTSG 87-1, Cambridge, MA,
January 1987, pp. 181-199
Dualism from Reductionism, Proceedings of the
International Symposium on AI and the Human Mind, Yale University, New
Haven, CT, March 1-3, 1986: in Truth Volume 2, Dallas, TX,
1987. (invited by Roy Varghese)
(editor) Autonomous Mobile Robots - Annual Report 1985, CMU
Robotics Institute Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-86-4, February
1986
with the CMU Mobile Robot Lab,
Towards Autonomous Vehicles
(supplementary file),
CMU Robotics Institute 1984 Annual Research
Review, CMU, Pittsburgh, September 1985, pp. 33-50
with C. Thorpe and L. Matthies,
Experiments and Thoughts on Visual Navigation,
proceedings of the 1985 IEEE
International Conference on Robotics and Automation, St. Louis,
March, 1985, pp. 830-835
with R. Wallace, A. Stentz, C. Thorpe, W. Whittaker and T. Kanade,
First Results in Robot Road-Following
(section),
proceedings of the 1985 IJCAI, Los Angeles, August, 1985 and
proceedings of the 1985 ASME conference on Computers in
Engineering, Boston, August, 1985
with A. E. Elfes,
High Resolution Maps from Wide Angle Sonar,
1984, proceedings of the 1985 IEEE International
Conference on Robotics and Automation, St. Louis, March, 1985, pp
116-121, and proceedings of the 1985 ASME conference on Computers
in Engineering, Boston, August, 1985
Machines with Mobility, in Robots, Salamander
Books, London, England 1985, pp. 66-79. (invited)
The Rovers, in Robotics, Marvin Minsky, ed.,
Doubleday, 1985, pp. 123-145. (invited)
Robots that Rove, in SIGBIO, newsletter of the
ACM special interest group on biomedical copmputing, v7n2, A01, June
1985, pp. 13-15. (invited)
Three Degrees for a Mobile Robot, Proceedings of the
ASME Conference on Computers in Engineering, Las Vegas, August
12-15, 1984
Locomotion, Vision and Intelligence, Robotics
Research - The First International Symposium, Michael Brady and
Richard Paul, eds., MIT Press, 1984, pp. 215-224. (invited)
The Stanford Cart and The CMU Rover, Proceedings of
the IEEE, July 1983, pp. 872-884. (invited)
with F. B. Carley,
The Rocket/Skyhook Combination, L5
News, v8#3, March 1983, pp. 4-6
The CMU Rover, in Proceedings of AAAI-82, the
second national artificial intelligence conference, Pittsburgh, August
18-20, 1982, pp. 377-380. also
in
Update, Volume 3, July 1982,
Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory, U of New Hampshire
The Endless Frontier and The Thinking Machine, in The
Endless Frontier, v2, Jerry Pournelle, ed., Grosset & Dunlap,
Ace books, January 1982, pp. 374-397. (invited)
Rover Visual Obstacle Avoidance
(figure captions), proceedings of the
seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
Vancouver, British Columbia, August 1981, pp. 785-790
3D Graphics and the Wave Theory, presented at the 1981
Siggraph conference, Dallas, Texas, August 1981, Computer
Graphics, v15#3, August 1981, pp. 289-296
Robot Rover Visual Navigation, UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor,
Michigan, 1981
with R. L. Forward,
High Wire Act
(original draft), Omni, Omni
publications international, New York, July 1981, pp. 44-47. Also in
The OMNI Book of Space, Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing
Corp., New York, N. Y., January, 1984, pp. 73-82
informal reports:
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Robots and Intelligence, August 1983
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The CMU Rover, March 1981
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Fast Visibility Maps and 3D Graphics, March 1981
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Waves, not Corpuscles!, January 1981
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Bush Robots, July 1980
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3D Modeling and Graphics with Multiprocessors,
February 1980
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Notes on Magnetic Monopole Applications,
July 1979
Obstacle Avoidance and Navigation in the Real World by a Seeing
Robot Rover, Ph.D. thesis, Stanford University, Stanford,
California, May 1980. Available as Stanford AIM-340, CS-80-813 and
CMU-RI-TR-3
Obstacle Avoidance, 16mm film illustrating PhD research,
Stanford, November 1979
Cable Cars in the Sky, in The Endless Frontier,
v1, Jerry Pournelle, ed., Grosset & Dunlap, Ace books, November
1979, pp. 301-322. (invited by J. Pournelle)
Fully Interconnecting Multiple Computers with Pipelined Sorting
Nets, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vc-28#10, October
1979, pp. 795-798
Visual Mapping by a Robot Rover, Proceedings of the
6th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
Tokyo, Japan, August 1979, pp. 599-601
with T. O. Binford and D. B. Gennery,
Final Report: Computer Visual
Systems for Exploratory Vehicles, NASA contract NASW 2916, April
1979
Today's Computers, Intelligent Machines and Our
Future, Analog, v99#2, February 1979,
pp. 59-84
informal reports:
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Preliminary Specifications for a High Performance Byte
Raster Display Terminal, June 1977
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Non-Synchronous Orbital Skyhooks for the Moon and Mars
with Conventional Materials, December 1977
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An Interconnection Method for Multiple Computers using
Sorting Nets, August 1978
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Free Space Skyhooks, November 1978
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Skyhook Bibliography, August 1983
Skyhook!, L5 News, v3#8, Tucson, AZ, August 1978,
pp. 1-3
Orbital Skyhooks, the elegant road to space, computer graphic
film, Stanford University, October 1977
A Non-Synchronous Orbital Skyhook, The Journal of the
Astronautical Sciences, v25#4, pp. 307-322, Oct-Dec 1977
Towards Automatic Visual Obstacle Avoidance
(short version),
Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, MIT, Cambridge, Mass., August 1977, p. 584
with D. B. Gennery,
Cart Project Progress Report, for NASA
contract NASW 2916, July 1976
Final Report: Research in Visual Navigation, JPL contract
953995, January 1975
informal reports:
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Intelligent Machines: How to get there from
here and What to do afterwards, September 1977
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Bleep Generator, January 1976
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The Role of Raw Power in Intelligence, May 1975
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Locomotion, Vision and Intelligence, June 1974
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The Cart Project: A Personal History,
A Plea for Help, and A Proposal, May 1974
- A System for Simplifying Algebraic Expressions,
December 1971
with J. M. Carroll et al.,
Multi-dimensional Security Program
for a Generalized Information Retrieval System, in
Proc. AFIPS 1971 Fall Joint Computer Conference, Anaheim,
California, October 1971, pp. 571-577
A Lisp-like Language Based on Variably Sized List Elements,
Master's thesis, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada,
1971
A Program for Generating Permutations,
report for Computer Centre, Loyola College, Montreal, Canada, 1966
(converted factorial number (radix[n, n-1 ... 2, 1]) counts
into unique permutations of n items)