I recently read both volumes of "Artificial Intelligence -- An MIT Perspective", which is a great view of the high-water mark of the MIT AI Lab. This two-volume set, put together between 78-81 is a review and collection of papers showing off the current state of the art in the AI Lab's work in five areas:<p>* Computer Learning<p>* Natural Language Processing<p>* Computer Vision<p>* Manipulation Technology<p>* Programming Languages (including short versions of GLS's thesis on CPS compilation for Scheme and Carl Hewitt's ACTORs paper, and a review-and-outlook paper on the development of the MIT Lisp Machine, among others)<p>Along with introductory comments by Patrick Henry Winston and Richard Brown, the set includes papers by Marvin Minsky, Gerald Sussman, BKP Horn, Jon Doyle, Richard Stallman, GLS, Hewitt, and more.<p>Taken in total, the collection shows how the world of AI looked from MIT goint into the eighties, before the boom and the bust which followed.<p>Now, you can get each volume for $1.00 on AbeBooks. Sic transit gloria mundi...