Carnegie Mellon University List of Computer Vision Videos from CMU and Elsewhere

A visit to Carnegie Mellon's Allen Newell and Herbert Simon collections is like being given the keys to the offices of two of AI's founders. Among the many thrills you'll experience as you explore this collection is the opportunity to actual handwritten notations on documents such as manuscripts, speeches and lecture notes.

• A Conversation with Herbert Simon: Previous Research Experience.
  Herbert A. Simon explains how he came to apply computers to psychology. (more)
• BACON.
  Herbert A. Simon describes BACON and the nature of programs that do science and scientific discovery. March 21, 1990. (more)
• Chess Play.
  Excerpt from "Cognitive Processes" lecture by Herbert A. Simon. October 24, 1989. (more)
• Crusher: Unmanned Ground Vehicle.
  Three videos of CMU's vehicle, Crusher. NREC (CMU's National Robotics Engineering Center) designed and developed the Crusher vehicle to support the UPI program's rigorous field experimentation schedule. The UPI program features quarterly field experiments that assess the capabilities of large scale, unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) operating autonomously in a wide range of complex, off-road terrains. UPI's aggressive mobility, autonomy and mission performance objectives required two additional test platforms that could accommodate a variety of mission payloads and state of the art autonomy technology. Crusher represents the next generation of the original Spinner platform, the world's first greater-than-6-ton, cross-country UGV designed from the ground up. Crusher offers more mobility, reliability, maintainability and flexibility than Spinner, at 29 percent less weight. 2005. (more)
• Expert Systems.
  In this excerpt from "AI: What Can it Do? Where is it Going?," Herbert A. Simon explains the anatomy of expert systems. March 21, 1990. (more)
• Interview with Tom Mitchell.
  8 min. interview with Tom Mitchell about machine learning, from CMU's 2006 ML Autumn School. 2006. (more)
• Listen.
  Demo of Project Listen for helping kids with reading. Computer listens to kids reading sentences of a story and gives feedback. 1994. (more)
• Project Listen Collection.
  Collection of Videos from Project Listen, the reading tutor developed by Jack Mostow at CMU. Last update 2006. (more)
• Soar: excerpt from Allen Newell's William James Lectures.
  Allen Newell explains the Soar architecture. March 11, 1987. (more)
• Symbol System: excerpt from AI: What Can it Do? Where is it Going?.
  Herbert A. Simon explains the hypothesis that intelligent behavior (be it humans or computers) requires the ability to deal with symbols/patterns. March 21, 1990. (more)
• The Discipline and Future of Machine Learning.
  Seminar talk by Tom Mitchell at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Machine Learning Department. March 1, 2007. (more)
• Tower of Hanoi: excerpt from A Conversation with Herbert Simon – A Video Tribute by Julia Love.
  Herbert A. Simon uses the Tower of Hanoi puzzle to illustrate how human problem solving is studied. (more)
• Unified Theory of Cognition: excerpt from Allen Newell's William James Lectures.
  Excerpt from lecture by Allen Newell. February 18, 1987. (more)
• Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicle.
  DARPA created the Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicle (UGCV) program to develop vehicle prototypes based on novel designs unrestrained by the need to accommodate human crews. The resulting prototypes demonstrate advanced configurations and technology that are applicable to UGV design programs for the US Army’s Future Combat System (FCS). NREC with its three first level subcontractors (Boeing, Timoney Technology and DRS-TEM) developed and tested Spinner, a highly durable, invertible, six-wheel-drive, hybrid-powered vehicle that responds to the need of a UGCV to surmount challenging terrain obstacles, be easily teleoperated, and able to withstand an occasional moderate crash and rapidly recover. Date unknown (more)
• Visual Elements in Robotics: excerpt from "AI: What Can it Do? Where is it Going?".
  Excerpt from lecture by Herbert A. Simon. March 21, 1990. (more)