The central thesis of this report is that human language is NP-complete. That is, the process of comprehending and producing utterances is bounded above by the class NP, and below by NP-hardness. This constructive complexity thesis has two empirical consequences.…

This paper describes a new statistical, model-based approach to building a contact state observer. The observer uses measurements of the contact force and position, and prior information about the task encoded in a graph, to determine the current location of…

Dynamic systems which undergo rapid motion can excite natural frequencies that lead to residual vibration at the end of motion. This work presents a method to shape force profiles that reduce excitation energy at the natural frequencies in order to…

La presente propuesta explica cómo el estudio de la historia local de un pueblo,
San José de Bolívar en el estado Táchira, puede servir de estrategia didáctica
no solo para afianzar la identidad cultural del estudiante de educación
primaria en…

If we are to understand how we can build machines capable of broad purpose learning and reasoning, we must first aim to build systems that can represent, acquire, and reason about the kinds of commonsense knowledge that we humans have…

Hasta la fecha, el conocimiento tecnológico ha estado diluido en los conocimientos generales que brinda la escuela, y lo fundamental se adquiere informalmente en las actividades de la vida cotidiana. La Educación en Tecnología es un saber que permite la…

La crisis del pensar atraviesa casi todas las categorías fundantes
de la modernidad. El paradigma, como sistema de signifi caciones, ya parece
no servir para dar respuestas y Lanz (2005) se pregunta si será posible pensar
sin esta categoría. Este…

Takeshi Yoshioka & George Herman., "October 1999.", Includes bibliographical references (p. 24-25).

This paper describes an approach to supporting work in the office. Using and extending ideas from the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) we describe office work as a problem solving activity. A knowledge embedding language called Omega is used to…

Current methods for bipedal walking control include playback of recorded joint motion and the derivation of dynamic equations to map desired forces at the body to the required torques at the joints. Both methods require a significant amount of up-front…