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Collage of AI Research Clips

Major collection: Science & Technology
Object type: film: 16mm
Maker: MIT, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Materials: prob Kodachrome

Among the clips are a computer display of some kind of geometric or field calculation, a simulation of different-size (and mass) balls colliding with a complex environment and each other under gravity, Ray Solomonoff talking, someone on a bongo board, Rick Greenblatt talking, Marvin Minsky and a student watching a robot arm stacking blocks, students watching a different arm accidentally knocking over a tower of blocks, Alan Kotok, Stuart Nelson and others in front of the PDP-6, Lucy (Marvin Minsky's secretary) sitting on the Minsky-Bennett arm and riding around, some kind of grasping mechanism being demonstrated and a brief screen recording of what looks like Terry Winograd's SHRDLU.


2007.020.002

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