Guide to the Nils John Nilsson Papers
Series 1 Email and contacts [computer files]
E-mail 1977-2001, 2003-2007
Scope and Content Note
China 1981
Scope and Content Note
Series 2 Research [computer files] 1977-2007
Actnet 1990
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Guggenheim application 1990
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Location of Files Archived at SRI 1985
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Logic and AI papers and talks 1987-1990
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Miscellaneous Essays
Principia-ICA Project 1987-1989
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Proposals 1988-1994
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Reports 1988-1995
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Research Budgets 1990-1995
Publications and their backup materials 2004-2007
SRI Files 1977-1989
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Teleo-Reactive Research 1991-1999
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Series 3 Stanford administration [computer files] 1985-2006
Computer Science Departmental Matters 1985-1990
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Computer Forum 1990-1996
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Computer Science Department Timeline 2006
Computer Science Department Proposals 1985-1989
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Official correspondence 1995
Photos of Robots
University Committees 1987-1990
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Series 4 Stanford teaching [computer files] 1987-2005
AI Qualifying Examinations 1987-1989
Scope and Content Note
Computer Science Department Comprehensive Exams 1991-1993
Courses and Students 1984-2000
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Curis Projects 2002, 2005
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Series 5 Books and comments [computer files] 1980-2009
Guggenheim application 2007
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Books 1980-2009
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Santa Fe Institute 1991-1993
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Reviews and comments about papers and books 1993-2005
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Series 6 Professional organizations and services [computer files] 1981-2009
AAAI 2005 Distinguished Service award Photos
Awards and Ceremonies 1989-1995
Interviews Luminaries 2007
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Presentations, Workshops and Conferences 1981-2006
Series 7 Events files
Scope and Content Note
Navy R&D Clinic, September 1962
1965
1966
1967
1968
Syllabi: CS 382 Winter 1969; EE 298 [UCLA] Spring 1964; EE 353 Summer 1962; CS 225 Spring 1969
IJCAI [International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence] 1969
IJCAI 1971
Miscellaneous 1970-71
Computer Models of Learning and Adaptive Behavior: grant application and proposal for research, 1970
Scotland Problem-Solving Session, 1972
ACM Spring Conference 1972
MI-7 [Seventh International Machine Intelligence Workshop] 1972
Cal Tech Robot Seminar 1972
1972 Robot talks, strips [overhead slides]
FJCC [Fall Joint Computer Conference] 1972
Pajaro Dunes problem solving workshop 1973
Wash.-N.Y. March 1973
Robot equipment workshop 1973
Correspondence originated by IJCAI-73, 1972-73
IJCAI 1973
Forms, etc, for IJCAI 1973
IJCAI 1973 miscellaneous letters
SRI-Washington briefing [seminar on computer-based consultants] 1974
IFIP Congress 1974
May trip to Washington DC 1974
July trip to Washington DC 1974
Pantell [Prof. R. H. Pantell] seminar 1975
Miscellaneous talks 1975
University talks 1975
Cal Tech meeting 1975
February trip 1975
April trip, Washington DC 1975
ARPA / PI meeting 1975
Licklides visit April 23 1975
July Washington trip 1975
December trip to Washington DC 1975
Military application of AI conference 1975
Trip to Bakersfield
September trip to Washington 1976
AIM [Artificial Intelligence in Medicine] workshop 1976
NCC [National Computer Conference] 1976
Syllabus: CS 225, Fall 1976
Miscellaneous 1975-76
West Texas State University trip 1976
Psychology Conference 1976
IBM talk March 1976
Trip March 1976
Jim Adams P.S. seminar May 1977
Hawaii [Workshop on Pattern-directed Inference Systems] May 1977
Wegner conference [Research Directions in Software Technology] 1977
IJCAI 1977
[Automatic] Deduction Conference 1977
Leningrad trip report 1977
MI-9, 1977
USSR April 1977
MIT trip 1977
Brown [University] talk 1977
France trip 1977
Cornell talk, December 1977
Framework for AI Seminar at UMass
Amherst trip [teaching at UMass Fall] 1977
HOUND [Heuristically-Oriented, Unprogrammed New Deducer] talk April 1977
Univ. of Maryland August 1977
IFIP 1977
May 1978 trip (ONR, ARPA, WPAFB, NASA)
AIM 1978
CMU [Carnegie Mellon Univ.] trip January 1978
Annual Review 1987
Apple Visit 1987
CSD Reunion [Computer Science at Stanford] 1987
IJCAI 87 / Proposed Locations
MIT distinguished lecture May 1987
MIT – Foundations of AI – June 1987
ICA NASA proposals 1987-89
Foundations of AI Conference 1987
AAAI July 1987
University of Washington January 1988
University of Washington, Dept. of Computer Science Self-Study Nov. 1987
University of Washington, Dept. of Electrical Engineering Self-Study Oct. 1987
DARPA 1987
TI [Texas Instruments] visit December 1987
FCCSET November 1987
NASA Workshop November 1987
Asilomar Conference November 1987
DARPA planning meeting Nov. 1988
Planning Workshop [Rochester, NY] 1988
Rochester Planning Workshop October 1988
Glenwood Meeting November 1988
NRC (National Research Council) CS Study April 1988
September 1988 Frosh debate [new student orientation event]
UC Santa Cruz talk May 1988
AAAI Committee on Strategic Directions
Conference on Gifted and Talented April 1988
DARPA Advisory Committee
School of Earth Science Industrial Associates Seminar Day 1988
Neural Nets [overhead project slides] 1988
AAAI 1988
Tektronix trip July 1988
Snowbird Conference July 1988
ICA Review [overhead project slides] May 1988
ICA talk 1988
Black Student Advanced Degree Program discussion Oct. 1988
Schwartz Visit, February 1988
Nilsson's New Years Day party 1989
CYC workshop January 1989
UCSD April 1989
AAAI Symposium Spring 1989
Retreat Agenda responses [Computer Science Dept. faculty retreat] May 1989
Washington DC trip June 1989
NASA Day June 21, 1989
IJCAI 1989
AAAI talk March 1989
1989 Visiting Committee [SU Computer Science]
ML 91 [Eighth International Workshop on Machine Learning] June 1991
ICGA-91 conference schedule; Genetic Algorithms July 1991
Santa Fe, Learning in Economics, Psychology and Computer Science, January 1991
Kumagai dinner March 18, 1991
Boston/Cambridge talks, 1990
AAAI July 1990
AI Day on Campus ACTNET June 1990
CIS talk [Paradigm Shifts in AI] April 1990
Forum talk slides overhead type] 1990
Israeli AI Conference Dec.1989
First Foresight Conference on Nanotechnology 1989
Barry Boehm visit, November 1989
CS Dept. 25th Anniversary 1990
AAAI-91 Program July 1991
Santa Fe, Adaptive Computation, August 1991
JMC Symposium [in honor of John McCarthy] Sept. 1991
Workshop on Computational Learning, Berkeley, Sept. 1991
Rockwell, January 1992
Stanford Computer Form [24th Annual Meeting] Feb. 1992
Santa Fe, March 1992
AIPS Conference, June 1992
SFI [Santa Fe Institute]/Stanford Symposium July 1992
AAAI August 1992
Rutgers Computer Science Review Oct. 1992
SFI Approaches to AI, Nov. 1992
IAS-3 conference, Pittsburgh, Feb. 1993
Stanford Computer Form [25th Annual Meeting] Feb. 1993
SFI Reinforcement Learning in Robotics Workshop March 1993
Florida, Human & Machine Cognition [workshop] May 1993
NSF Grant 1992-94
NSF. Autonomous Agents [research] 1994-99
SFI. Bottom-up Robotics May 1992
ML [Machine Learning] Conference June 1993
AAAI July 1993
AAAI Fall Symposium 1993
Washington DC Trip October 1993
Adaptive Computation, Ann Arbor, Nov. 1993
AAAI Spring Symposium 1994
Comp. Science Dept. retreat 1994
AAAI Fall Workshop, 1994
Caracas [Iberoamerican Congress on AI] 1994
ISI trip March 1995
Univ. of Washington May 1995
SFI, Biological and Computational Landscapes, July 1995
Machine Learning conference 1995
Shakey – SRI – November 1995
Neural networks conference, Australia, Nov. 1995
AAAI, 1996
NRC – AI history Feb. 28, 1997
Smithsonian 1997
AAAI, Madison, 1998
Hebrew University committee, 1998
SFI, Embodied-Motor Knowledge, March 1999
AAAI, 1999
York (University of) trip 2001
IJCAI 2001
"Big Picture" AI workshop March 2004
Festschrift for Edward A. Feigenbaum, March 2006
AAAI 2005
40 Years of Computer Science at Stanford: A Symposium and Celebration, March 21, 2006
Model-Directed Macro Expansion [overhead slides] ca. 1980
Carnegie I [talks – A Framework for AI] 1978
COMTEC – Rome Air Development Center – March 1979
Rutgers: Proceedings of the First A.I.M. Workshop 1975
AI Project – ideas 1980s
COMTEC 2000, 1979
ONR San Diego meeting, April 1979
Washington DC trip Jan. 1979
Texas [Automated] Deduction workshop 1979
RADC, January 1979
DENDRAL / NIH Site Visit (Stanford) Dec. 1979
Rand [Team Performance] Nov. workshop 1979
Cognitive Science [conference] San Diego August 1979
Hayward State talk May 1979
COMTEC, McLean, Virginia, Feb. 1979
IBM talk, March 1979
[Saul] Amarel site visit 1980
RADC April 1980
AI and Philosophy conference March 1980
McKemie / Denicoff January 1980
DOE, NSF, ARPA January 1980
Formal Methods [in AI] August 1980
RADC meeting August 1980
IBM – SHARE presentation March 1980
DAI [Distributed Artificial Intelligence] workshop June 1980
ARPA, RADC trip Sept. 1980
LISP conference 1980
Rand Role-Based Systems August 1980
AAAI August 1980
AIM August 1980
JPL Trip November 1980
ONR October 1980
Trip to NSA, NSF, ONR October 1980
RADC Symposium September 1980
Washington D.C. Trip Druffel November 1981
Addresses Japan & Misc. July 1981
China Trip October 1981
CMU Dist. Lecture April 1981
CMU Visiting Comm. March 1981
Washington D.C. Visit February 1981
SOC Visit January 1981
Ohlander August 1981
Carl Vinson Trip July 1981
Applied Materials Visit July 1981
Akzona Corp. June 1981
June Trip to Washington D.C. June 1981
AIC Retreat February 1981
AAAI August 1982
San Diego NOSC Trip June 1982
Japan/China September 1981
IJCAI Talk August 1891
IJCAI August 1981
ARPA LISP Meeting, Kahn Visit/Wash. Trip April 1981
AIC Christmas Alumni Party December 1983
AIC Retreat – Monterey Dunes November 1982
MI – 10 [Machine Intelligence Research Unit] November 1981
Sweden December 1982
AΩ November 1982
AIC Retreat November 1982
November Trips WDC November 1982
AAAI August 1982
SIR Talk March 1982
WDC Trip June 1982
WDC March 1982
WDC Trips January 1982
Town Hall February 1982
ATP Prize 1982 January 1983
Prize September 1982
NSF January 1983
IJCAI Panel Paper August 1983
UMINN Talk May 1983
UMICU of AAAS May 1983
CSD Retreat May 1983
ARPA PI Meeting April 1983
Sweden Trips March 1983
Air Force Academy March 1983
Fernbach Committee August 1983
AAAI – Pres September 1983
AAAI August 1983
IJCAI August 1983
Research Symposium to Honor Marvin Denicoff December 1983
Autonomous Vehicle Conference October 1983
Austria Meeting August 1983
AIC Day October 17, 1983
Viewgraphs/Prolog ~1980?
R. Kahn Meeting November 1983
AIC Leaders Retreat December 1983
Annual Reviews NY March 1984
Interview with Nils Nilsson Whole Earth… January 1984
DARPA Meeting June 1984
Trips to Washington D.C. August 1984
AAIC August 1984
Triangle Tables (Viewgraphs) July 1984
Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning October 1984
Quintus November 1984
OTA Workshop on AI November 1984
Annual Review of AI October 1983
Series 8 Publications
1962-1972 (1 of 4)
1962-1972 (2 of 4)
1962-1972 (3 of 4)
1962-1972 (4 of 4)
Drafts & Memos 1965-1976
1966-1967
1968
1970
Drafts & Appendices 1960's (1 of 2)
Drafts & Appendices 1960's (2 of 2)
1959-1973 (1 of 2)
1959-1973 (2 of 2)
Speeches & Interviews
Drafts 1967-1971
1958-1972
1973-1996
Drafts 1978-1987
1976-1977
1979-1983
1984-1989
AI Science Research Council
An Application of the Theory of Games to Radar Reception Problems, Stanford Ph.D. thesis 1958
Correspondence 1961-October 1963
Correspondence January 1964-February 1965
Correspondence March-December 1965
Correspondence January 1966-March 1967
Correspondence May-December 1967
Correspondence April 1989 (1 of 2)
Correspondence April 1989 (2 of 2)
Correspondence May 1989
Correspondence June 1989
Correspondence July 1989
Correspondence August 1989
Correspondence September 1989
Miscellaneous, originally filed after Correspondence September 1989
Life article, "Shaky" November 1970
Dartmouth
Fellows Symposium AAAI
2006 & 2007 Conference Agendas
Switzerland
Complete Intelligence Workshop February 2009
AI: A New Synthesis, (errata to be added)
Comments/Reviews G&N
Reviews: New Synthesis
Principles of AI – Processed Comments on New Book Draft
Reviews: Learning Machine
Reviews: Problem Solving Methods in AI
Linguistic Institute 1987
American Library Association June 1987
Humanities, Animals, and Machines April 1987
Parlor Talk March 1987
RADC May 13, 1987
Hewlett-Packard March 19, 1987
AF Talk Agenda 1986
WPMFB Talk April 22, 1986
ICA Presentation 1986
Fantasy, Toronto, November 1985
AI Retreat August 2, 1985
Columbia Talk April 29, 1985
Bank of America Talk 1985
A Short Rebuttal to Searle, November 6, 1984 – OTA Workshop
WDC November 1984
Illinois Talk Fall 1984
DARPA/Schwartz Presentation October 21, 1987
Santa Cruz Planning Workshop October 21-23, 1987
Publications
Publications 1959-1990 (1 of 3)
Publications 1959-1990 (2 of 3)
Publications 1959-1990 (3 of 3)
Photos IJCAI 1973
Problem Solving Methods in AI Galleys (1 of 5)
Problem Solving Methods in AI Galleys (2 of 5)
Problem Solving Methods in AI Galleys (3 of 5)
Problem Solving Methods in AI Galleys (4 of 5)
Problem Solving Methods in AI Galleys (5 of 5)
Manuscript for Learning Machines (1 of 5)
Manuscript for Learning Machines (2 of 5)
Manuscript for Learning Machines (3 of 5)
Manuscript for Learning Machines (4 of 5)
Manuscript for Learning Machines (5 of 5)
Letter from Alfred E. Brain with attached article
8.01 Shakey the Robot [color positive sound print], with invoice from W. A. Palmer Films 1982 and 1986
8.02 "Shakey: Experimentation in Robot Planning and Learning" film transfer 9-22-83
8.03 SRITAPE ASCII. Possibly contains files for BIBLIO.HP, chapters 1-9, PREFACE.HP, PROL.HP, PROS.HP
8.04 Artificial Intelligence Controversy Robots Tape 1 8/20/73
8.05 Artificial Intelligence Controversy Robots Tape 2 8/20/73
8.06 Artificial Intelligence Controversy Robots 8/20/73
8.07 Giving Machines Some Thought (documentary on AI) [28:20] 1986
8.08 Giving Machines Some Thought (documentary on AI) [124:00] 1986
8.09 Genetic Programming III Video Sampler. Human-Competitive Machine Intelligence April 1999
8.10 "Shakey: Experimentation in Robot Planning and Learning"
8.11 Edward A. Feigenbaum Festschrift, Tape 1 of 3, March 25, 2006
8.12 Edward A. Feigenbaum Festschrift, Tape 2 of 3, March 25, 2006
8.13 Edward A. Feigenbaum Festschrift, Tape 3 of 3 March 25, 2006
8.14 Computer History Museum. Oral History of Ed Feigenbaum, Session 1 May 20, 2007
8.15 Computer History Museum. Oral History of Ed Feigenbaum, Session 2, [as labeled] May 2, 2007
8.16 Computer History Museum. Oral History of John Backus September 5, 2006
8.17 Celebrating AAAI's Twenty-Fifth Anniversary: 20th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence July 2005
8.18 AAAI and IAAI proceedings 2006
8.19 17th International Joint Conference on AI, Seattle 2001 Aug 4-10
8.20 18th International Joint Conference on AI, Mexico 2003
8.21 International conference on Robotics and Automation proceedings April 2000
8.22-8.23 AAAI Technical Papers: National Conferences on AI 1998-99, Knowledge Discover & Data Mining Conferences, 1995-1998 1995-99
8.24 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop, Proceedings of PerMIS '06 Workshop 2006
8.25 Robotic Autonomy, Carnegie Mellon Institute [course curriculum and administrative material] Summer 2002
8.26 AI Debate – UC Berkeley; Weizenbaum, Coles, Dreyfus circa 1973
Series 10 Correspondence
Dec. 1958-Dec. 1962
1963
1964 (1 of 2)
1964 (2 of 2)
1965
1966 (1 of 2)
1966 (2 of 2)
1967 (1 of 2)
1967 (2 of 2)
1968 (1 of 2)
1968 (2 of 2)
1969 (1 of 3)
1969 (2 of 3)
1969 (3 of 3)
1970 (1 of 2)
1970 (2 of 2)
1971
1972
1973
1974 (1 of 2)
1974 (2 of 2)
1975 (1 of 2)
1975 (2 of 2)
1976 (1 of 3)
1976 (2 of 3)
1976 (3 of 3)
1977
1978 (1 of 2)
1978 (2 of 2)
1979 (1 of 2)
1979 (2 of 2)
1980 (1 of 3)
1980 (2 of 3)
1980 (3 of 3)
1980 (More)
1981 (1 of 3)
1981 (2 of 3)
1981 (3 of 3)
1981 (Possible duplicates?) (1 of 2)
1981 (Possible duplicates?) (2 of 2)
January-March 1982
April-July 1982 (1 of 2)
April-July 1982 (2 of 2)
April-December 1982 (1 of 2)
April-December 1982 (2 of 2)
1983 (1 of 2)
1983 (2 of 2)
1983, second file (1 of 3)
1983, second file (2 of 3)
1983, second file (3 of 3)
1983, third file (1 of 2)
1983, third file (2 of 2)
July-November 1984 (1 of 2)
July-November 1984 (2 of 2)
December 1983-March 1984
1984 (1 of 3)
1984 (2 of 3)
1984 (3 of 3)
January-November 1985
April-December 1986
1987 Jan
1987 Feb
1987 Mar
1987 Apr
1987 May
1987 Jun
1987 Jul
1987 Aug
1987 Sep
1987 Oct
1987 Nov
1987 Dec
1988 Jan
1988 Feb
1988 Mar
1988 Apr
1988 May
1988 Jun
1988 Jul
1988 Aug
1988 Sep
1988 Oct
1988 Nov
1988 Dec
1989 Jan
1989 Feb
1989 Mar
1989 Oct
1989 Nov
1989 Dec
1990 Jan
1990 Feb
1990 Mar
1990 Apr
1990 May
1990 Jun
1990 Jul
1990 Aug
Miscellaneous 1973-1975
1990 Sep
1990 Nov
1990 Dec
1991 Jan
1991 Feb
1991 Mar
1991 Apr
1991 May
1991 Jun
1991 Jul
1991 Aug
1991 Sep
1991 Oct
1991 Nov
1992 Jan
1992 Feb
1992 Mar
1992 Apr
1992 May
1992 Jun
1992 Jul
1992 Aug
1992 Sep
1992 Oct
1992 Nov
1992 Dec
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000-
Series 11 Miscellaneous
Fein, Louis, "Study and Evaluation of the Status of University Programs in the United States in Computers, Data-Processing and Related Fields Including Recommendations to Stanford University on Their Potential Role in These Fields," October 1957
Mapping Great Debates: Can Computers Think? An Issue Map Publication 1998 [Handbook and 7 large diagrams]
"A Word in Edgewise," newsletter on AI by Dick Fredericksen, #5-8, January – June 1971
Dept. of Machine Intelligence and Perception, University of Edinburgh: list of staff publications 1966-70 and A Seven Year Project to Develop an Intelligent Problem-Solving System, Oct. 1971
Fein, Louis, The Artificial Intelligentsia, WESCON 63 paper, 1963
Assorted memos (SRI, DARPA, Xerox PARC, SU Dept. of CS) 1967-84
Winston, Patrick H. Proposal to the Advanced Research Projects Agency May 1976. MIT A.I. Memo 366
McCarthy, John. Project Technical Report. Stanford Artificial Intelligence Project Memo AI-87. June 1969
Neural Network Synthesis Using Cellular Encoding and the Genetic Algorithm. Thesis by Frederic Gruau, 1994
Une Application de l'Intelligence Artificielle a la Conception Assistee par Ordinateur. Thesis by Jean-Claude Latombe, 1977
Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning: A Hybrid Approach. Thesis by Malcolm Ross Kinsella Ryan, Univ. of New South Wales, 2002
The Use of a Lattice in Knowledge Processing. Thesis by Gernhard Deon Oosthuizen, University of Strathclyde, 1988
Intelligence by Design: Principles of Modularity and Coordination for Engineering Complex Adaptive Agents. Thesis by Joanna Joy Bryson, MIT, 2001