"Understanding Computers and Cognition", Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1986.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles

....There were three classes of responses to this impoverished problem space: ffl Move to other domains with equally simple semantics, but with more interesting print names than block a etc. It was usually not the intent of the researchers to do this, but many in fact did fall into this trap. Winograd and Flores 86] expose and criticize a number of such dressings up in the chapter on Understanding Language . ffl Build a more complex semantics into the blocks world and work on the new problems which arise. A rather heroic example of this is [Fahlman 74] who included balance, multi shaped blocks, friction, ....

"Understanding Computers and Cognition", Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1986.

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