Intelligent On-Line Assistant and Tutor System

Abstract

This report describes work performed to develop a system to help people who are not computer experts deal with their Intelligent Terminal, an envisioned personal computer of great sophistication and power. The system was aimed at being capable of mediating 'intelligently' between these users and the tools that could be available to them in the Intelligent Terminal: provide streamlined instruction on how to use these tools, answer questions posed in English about the tools, and request that certain actions described in English be performed using the tools. The system is written in INTERLISP. The report describes in detail the work performed to bring up INTERLISP on a DEC-PDP-11 computer, and the work performed on an Intelligent On-Line Assistant and Tutor (INLAT) for new users of HERMES, an independently developed message processing system that exemplifies the kind of tool that could be made available in future Intelligent Terminals.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 31, 1977
Accession Number
ADA041727

Entities

People

  • Alice K. Hartley
  • Mario C. Grignetti
  • Robert J. Bobrow
  • William L. Ash

Organizations

  • BBN Technologies

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Age Distribution
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Coding
  • Compilers
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Instruction Set Architecture
  • Ions
  • Language
  • Message Processing
  • Microcode
  • Natural Languages
  • Operating Systems
  • Recognition
  • Simulations

Readers

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Science.
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development