1968-1969 Progress Report

This report mainly summarizes the Project MAC A.I. Group work between July 1968 and June 1969 but covers some work up to February 1970. The work on computer vision is described in detail. This summary should be read in conjunction with last year's A.I. Group Report which is included at the end of this Memo.

New Progress in Artificial Intelligence

This report concentrates on progress during the last two years at the M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Topics covered include the representation of knowledge, understanding English, learning and debugging, understanding vision and productivity technology. It is stressed that these various areas are tied closely together through certain fundamental issues and problems.

Progress in Vision and Robotics

The Vision Flashes are informal working papers intended primarily to stimulate internal interaction among participants in the A.I. Laboratory's Vision and Robotics group. Many of them report highly tentative conclusions or incomplete work. Others deal with highly detailed accounts of local equipment and programs that lack general interest. Still others are of great importance, but lack the polish and elaborate attention to proper referencing that characterizes the more formal literature. Nevertheless, the Vision Flashes collectively represent the only documentation of an important fraction of the work done in machine vision and robotics. The purpose of this report is to make the findings more readily available, but since they are not revised as presented here, readers should keep in mind the original purpose of the papers!

The journal of the Bishop of Montreal : during a visit to the Church Missionary Society's north-west America mission; to which is prefixed, by the secretaries, an introduction, giving an account of the formation of the mission and its progress to August 1848.

http://www.archive.org/details/journalofthebish00mounuoft

Christian missions and social progress : a sociological study of foreign missions (vol. 1)

http://www.archive.org/details/socialprogress00dennuoft/

The Hawaiian Islands : their progress and condition under missionary labors / by Rufus Anderson.

http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=ALQ8090

The journal of the Bishop of Montreal the Church Missionary Society's North-west America Mission. To which is added, by the secretaries, an appendix, giving an account of the formation of the mission, and its progress to the present time.

http://www.archive.org/details/bishopofmontreal00mounuoft

Human progress through missions / by James L. Barton.

http://www.archive.org/details/humanprogressthr00bartuoft

Lectures on the Tinnevelly missions, descriptive of the field, the work, and the results : with an introductory lecture on the progress of Christianity in India.

http://www.archive.org/details/lecturesontinnev00calduoft

Christian missions and social progress : a sociological study of foreign missions (vol. 3)

http://www.archive.org/details/socialprogress03dennuoft/

Wonders in the western isles, being a narrative of the commencement and progress of mission work in western Polynesia.

http://www.archive.org/details/wondersofwestern00murruoft

Christian missions and social progress : a sociological study of foreign missions (vol. 2)

http://www.archive.org/details/socialprogress02dennuoft/