Their Food, Management, Habits, Treatment, Diseases, Etc.

Their Food, Management, Habits, Treatment, Diseases, Etc.

Jerry Garcia (1942-1995) is an American icon. The guitarist and de facto leader of the Grateful Dead was a gregarious talker, keenly engaged with the new world exploding around him. In 1972, Garcia was visited by Charles Reich, a Yale law professor, and Jann Wenner, the founder of "Rolling Stone," Garcia was just thirty-one years old but already viewed--to his lasting dismay--as a social avatar for the new sensibility sweeping the land, an anarchist streak with a populist undercurrent that had roots in Ken Kesey's pranksters, the writers of the Beat Generation, and the libertine tradition of the American transcendentalists. In this interview, Garcia reveals how he is a combination of these and other influences, a high-school dropout and autodidact blessed with a gift for eloquent turns of phrase and a refreshing directness. He speaks of the saga of the Grateful Dead and his hoodlum youth growing up in San Francisco's Mission district. He delves into fascinating discourses on the music that shaped his own playing and writing, and freely discusses his use of drugs and explains why he felt it was important to stay high. Like the Grateful Dead's best music, "Garcia: A Signpost to New Space" is familiar, friendly, and inviting.

This collection of essays by 12 members of the MIT staff, provides an inside report on the scope and expectations of current research in one of the world's major AI centers. The chapters on artificial intelligence, expert systems, vision, robotics, and natural language provide both a broad overview of current areas of activity and an assessment of the field at a time of great public interest and rapid technological progress. Contents Artificial Intelligence, Patrick H. Winston and Karen Prendergast * KnowledgeBased Systems, Randall Davis * Expert-System Tools and Techniques, Peter Szolovits * Medical Diagnosis: Evolution of Systems Building Expertise, Ramesh S. Patil * Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering, Charles Rich and Richard C. Waters * Intelligent Natural Language Processing, Robert C. Berwick * Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Victor Zue * Robot Programming and Artificial Intelligence, Tomas Lozano-Perez * Robot Hands and Tactile Sensing, John M. Hollerbach * Intelligent Vision, Michael Brady * Making Robots See, W. Eric L. Grimson * Autonomous Mobile Robots, Rodney A. Brooks AI in the 1980s and Beyond is included in the Artificial Intelligence Series, edited by Patrick H. Winston and Michael Brady.