Will computers ever be conscious? Is it appropriate—correct, illuminating, ethical—to understand people in computational terms? Will quantum, dna, or nanocomputers radically alter our conception...
a Multiprogramming Environment (2008)
Pattie Maes, Paul L. Mccullough, Steven L. Messick, Kent L. Beck, Geoffrey A. Pascoe, Brian Cantwell Smith, ...
pages 23-35
Meter Through Synchrony: Processing Rhythmical Patterns with Relaxation Oscillators (2000)
Douglas S. Eck, Brian Cantwell Smith, Ph. D, Douglas S. Eck
iii For my mother Roberta and my father Vernon iv Acknowledgements When I considered a PhD in the sciences in 1994 and 1995 I had a fairly clear idea of where I wanted to be, but no idea whatsoever...
Josefa Toribio, Brian Cantwell Smith, A Bradford Book, London England
On the Origin of Objects is, at heart, an extended search for a non-circular and non-reductive characterization of two key notions: intentionality (the content or "aboutness"...
Organising User Interfaces around Reflective Accounts (1996)
Paul Dourish, Annette Adler, Brian Cantwell Smith
Over recent years, studies of human-computer interaction (HCI) from sociological and anthropological perspectives have offered radical new perspectives on how we use computer systems. These have...
Varieties of self-reference (1986)
The significance of any system of explicit representation depends not only on the immediate properties of its representational structures, but also on two aspects of the attendant circumstances:...
Procedural reflection in programming languages (1982)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1982.
Procedural reflection in programming languages /--by Brian Cantwell Smith. (1982)
Supervised by Peter Szolovits.
Procedural reflection in programming languages (1982)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1982.
A Proposal for a Computational Model of Anatomical and Physiological Reasoning (1978)
The studies of anatomy and physiology are fundamental ingredients of medical education. This paper identifies six ways in which such functional knowledge serves as the underpinnings for general...
A Proposal for a Computational Model of Anatomical and Physiological Reasoning (1978)
The studies of anatomy and physiology are fundamental ingredients of medical education. This paper identifies six ways in which such functional knowledge serves as the underpinnings for general...
How Is a Knowledge Representation System Like a Piano? (1978)
The research reported here was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant No. 1 P41 RR 01096-02 from the Division of Research Resources, and was conducted at the Artificial Intelligence...
How Is a Knowledge Representation System Like a Piano? (1978)
The research reported here was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant No. 1 P41 RR 01096-02 from the Division of Research Resources, and was conducted at the Artificial Intelligence...
Supervised by Peter Szolovits.
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978.
Reflection and Semantics in a Procedural Language / Brian Cantwell Smith.
Thesis (Ph.D.) - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1982.