Intelligent On-Line Assistant and Tutor System

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 use...

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Main Authors: Ash, William L, Bobrow, Robert J, Grignetti, Mario C, Hartley, Alice K
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION
Computer Programming and Software
COMPUTER PROGRAMS
Humanities and History
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
INTELLIGENT TERMINALS
NATURAL LANGUAGE
ONLINE SYSTEMS
SEMANTICS
SIMULATION
SYNTAX
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Summary: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.