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(Text here and below from AAAI’98 Fall Symposium Demo)

This "demo" will present videos of the original Bitpict Computation System [Furnas 1990, 1991, 1992] in operation. The Bitpict Computation System was a rule-based production system that, instead of rewriting items on a blackboard of expressions in predicate calculus, rewrote pixel patterns (bitmap fragments called "bitpicts") on a large bitmap. A surprising variety of rich graphical computations could be accomplished, often with quite simple pixel rewrite rules. After a long interruption this work is being revived and applied in pursuit of new types of human computer interaction, thanks to a generous gift from the INTEL corporation.