Front Cover; Advances in Computers, Volume 13; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1. Programmed Control of Asynchronous Program Interrupts; 1. Introduction; 2. Definition of Terms; 3. Attentions and Synchronism; 4. Facilities in Current Languages; 5. External Attentions; 6. Extended Attention Handling; 7. Examples; 8. Conclusion; Appendix 1. Syntax of the Attention Handling Language; Appendix 2. Detectable Conditions in PL/I, COBOL, and FORTRAN; Appendix 3. Glossary of Terms; References; Chapter 2. Poetry Generation and Analysis; 1. Introduction; 2. Computing Expertise.

3. Poetry Generation: The Results4. Poetry Analysis: Introduction; 5. Concordance-Making; 6. Stylistic Analysis; 7. Prosody; 8. Literary Influence: Milton on Shelley; 9. A Statistical Analysis; 10. Mathematical and Statistical Modeling; 11. Textual Bibliography; 12. Conclusion; References; Chapter 3. Mapping and Computers; 1. Introduction; 2. History; 3. What Is a Map?; 4. The Earth Ellipsoid; 5. The Geoid; 6. Geodetic Datum; 7. Geodetic Surveys; 8. Satellite Geodesy; 9. Photogrammetry; 10. Projections; 11. Cartography; 12. Data Banks; 13. Future Trends; 14. Conclusions; References.

Chapter 4. Practical Natural language Processing: The REL System as PrototypeIntroduction; 1. Natural Language for Computers; 2. What Constitutes a Natural Language?; 3. The Prototype REL System; 4. Semantics and Data Structures; 5. Semantics Revisited; 6. Deduction and Related Issues; 7. English for the Computer; 8. Practical Natural Language Processing; References; Chapter 5. Artificial Intelligence-The Past Decade; 1. Introduction; 2. The Objectives of the Review; 3. Language Processing; 4. Some Aspects of Representation, Inference, and Planning; 5. Automatic Programming.

6. Game-Playing Programs7. Some Learning Programs; 8. Heuristic Search; 9. Pattern Recognition and Scene Analysis; 10. Cognitive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence; 11. Concluding Remarks; References; Author Index; Subject Index; Contents of Previous Volumes.