A Workshop on AI Methodology, Massachusetts, June 1991

这笔赠款资助了1991年6月2日至6月4日在马萨诸塞大学举行的人工智能(AI)方法论研讨会。研讨会的目的是评估人工智能方法学的现状，并讨论具体的方法学改进。特别关注人工智能理论与实证研究的关系，以及在生成假设、预测、实验和允许复制结果方面最先进方法的可靠性。约25名人工智能领域的学者受邀参加本次研讨会。讲习班的产出是一卷关于一系列方法学问题的编辑论文，以书籍的形式出版。

This grant funds a workshop on artificial Intelligence (AI) Methodology, held at the University of Massachusetts on June 2 through June 4, 1991. The purpose of the workshop is to assess the current stat of AI methodology and discuss specific methodological improvements. Especial attention is given to the relation of AI theory to empirical research, and the soundness of the state of the art methods in generating hypotheses, predictions, experiments and in allowing replication of results. Approximately 25 scholars in the field of AI are invited to participate in this workshop. The workshop output is a volume of edited papers on a range of methodological issues that is published in the form of a book.