Welcome to the Publications FTP directory at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Please use your complete email address as a password for anonymous login. (example: zippy@mit.edu) Many of our recent publications are on-line and it is our plan to put all new publications on-line as they are published. Below is a description of what is available on this ftp server and other resources that are available to help you obtain MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory publications. An index of what's available on-line will be available by 9/30/93 so that you will not have to download the large bibliography if you are only interested in finding out what publications are currently available on-line. Please read the section on the /bibliography directory to understand how we splt up the file into separate sections. /AI-PUBLICATIONS The /ai-publications directory contains files in compressed postscript format only except for the /general-pubs subdirectory which contains some ascii files in addition to the postscript versions of the same files. All Artificial Intelligence Laboratory publications are assigned a number beginning with either AIM- (for a memo) or AITR- (for a technical report or thesis). If you know the number of the publication you would like to download you may cd to the directory within /ai-publications repesenting the year it was published and download (`get') the compressed postscript file. Use a standard Unix uncompress utility to uncompress the file(s). Within the /ai-publications directory there is a subdirectory containing documents of general interest called /general-pubs. This directory includes: labsummary This is the 1992 - 1993 summary of the laboratory including number of members, supporting grants, prizes, and awards and a paragraph describing the research projects of each professor. This file is available in either ascii or postscript format. ai3 An extended outline (29 pages) of the chapters of ``Artificial Intelligence,'' 3rd edition, by Patrick Winston. This book is not available through the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory publications office but can be ordered from Addison Wesley Publishers. General Phone: 617-944-3700, Orders Only: 1-800-447-2226. This file is in postscript only. frontier Excerpts from ``Expanding Frontiers.'' This is an overview of the two volume set edited by Patrick Winston which examines the current and future state of artifical intelligence. This two volume set can be ordered from MIT Press by calling: (617)-625-8481 BOOK INQUIRIES or (617)-625-8569 BOOK ORDERS. File available in postscript only. ------------------------------------------------------------------- /BIBLIOGRAPHY The /bibliography directory contains various Artificial Intelligence Laboratory bibliographies in both compressed ascii and compressed postscript format. They are split up into archived, current, and update bibliographies because of their large size. Download these files for a complete listing of all publications published at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. The bibliographies provide author, title, abstract, and publication number information. Subdirectories of the /bibliographhy directory are: /current-bib The Current Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Publications Bibliography - Spring 1993 (100 pages) lists abstracts from current AI Lab memos, technical reports, and videos available through the lab as well as books, journals and proceeding listings available outside of the lab. Ordering and shipping procedures are also included. Files are available in both ascii and postscript format. /update The Artifiical Intelligence Laboratory Publications Biblgiography Update - Spring 1993 (20 pages) is a list of only the most recent publications. These publications are also contained within the Current Publications Bibliography and include abstracts of the memos and technical reports produced within the past year. This list also includes journal and proceeding citations available outside of the lab. Files are available in both ascii and postscript format. Many of the publications listed in this Bibliography Update are avialable electronically in the /publications subdirectory. /archived The Archived Publications Bibliography (62 pages) is a listing of archived publications spanning from 1959 to approximately 1988. Older publications that are frequently requested are still available through the Current Publications Bibliography. Once again, files are available in ascii and postscript format. Ordering instructions are also included. ------------------------------------------------------------------- ON-LINE TELNET SEARCH OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHY If you would like to do and on-line search of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory's bibliography you may do so by telnetting to reading-room.lcs.mit.edu. This will connect you to the MIT LCS/AI Reading Room Catalog System which contains bibliographic citations from the Laboratory of Computer Science and the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. To connect type: > telnet reading-room.lcs.mit.edu To search through the memos and technical reports type: > collection tr and search by number, author, or title. This is one way to find out the number assigned to an Artificial Intelligence Laboratory publication without downloading the large bibliographies. If you have questions or need further information regarding publications at the laboratory, please contact the publications office at publications@ai.mit.edu. The telephone number of the publications office is (617) 253-6773 and the mailing address is: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Publcations, NE43-818 545 Technology Square Cambridge, MA 02139 -------------------------------------------------------------- WWW ACCESS TO THE FTP DIRECTORIES You may also browse the ftp directories at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory using a web interface such as Xmosaic. The Document URL for the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Home Page is: http://www.ai.mit.edu/. Once you are on the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory's home page you may select the hypertext selection "Lab Publications" and then select the "whole ftp directory". -------------------------------------------------------------------- Suggestions for further development of this ftp directory are welcome.