Accession Number:

ADA093041

Title:

Brand X Manual,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH CAMBRIDGE LAB FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE

Personal Author(s):

• Szolovits,Peter
• Martin,William A.

Report Date:

1980-11-01

Pagination or Media Count:

24.0

Abstract:

Brand X is a simple representation language implemented as a pure extension of LISP. Brand X provides the following additional facilities over LISP Unique and canonical structures, property lists for all objects, labels for all objects, and a syntax to express each of these, supported by a reader and printer. Brand X is intended as an assembly language for representation languages, attempting to provide facilities generally found useful in the simplest manner, without any strong commitment to specific representational conventions. Author

Descriptors:

• *COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
• *ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
• *ASSEMBLY LANGUAGES
• SPECIFICATIONS
• PARAMETERS
• SEMANTICS
• NODES
• USER NEEDS
• OPEN LOOP SYSTEMS
• SYNTAX
• INSTRUCTION MANUALS
• NATURAL LANGUAGE
• NETWORK FLOWS

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE