Reid G. Smith

Work Experience

Education

• 1979 Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University
  Dissertation Title: A Framework for Problem Solving in a Distributed Processing Environment
  Dissertation Advisor: Bruce G. Buchanan
• 1969 M.Eng., Electrical Engineering, Carleton University
  Thesis Title: The Fast Fourier Transform and the Small Computer
  Thesis Advisor: Donald A. George
• 1968 B.Eng., Electrical Engineering, Carleton University

Professional Organizations

• Fellow of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
• Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• Life Member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Life Member of Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributor.
• Member of Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)
• Life Member of Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

Publications and Presentations

Google Scholar Citations

2025

• Joshua Eckroth, Dayne Freitag, Jonathan Keefe, Timothy Meyer, Karen L. Myers, Eric Schoen, Pedro Sequeira, Reid G. Smith, Building a Virtual Member of a Community of Practice. In CIKM '25: Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, November 10, 2025, Seoul, Republic of Korea. ACM Inc., New York, NY, 5650-5657. doi:10.1145/3746252.3761585.
• J. Boden, J. Eckroth, S. Gipson, K. Myers, R. Smith, E. Schoen, J. Keefe, P. Sequeira. Building an Intelligent Research Assistant – RAG Isn't All You Need. Presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Houston, TX, October 13, 2025. SPE-228117-MS.

2024

• Karen Myers and Reid G. Smith, "Creating a Virtual Member of a Community of Practice." Presented at APQC 2024 Conference, Houston, TX, May 2, 2024. PDF on this site

2022

• Reid G. Smith, Eric J. Schoen and Jay M. Tenenbaum, "Early AI Applications at Schlumberger," in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 88-102, 1 Jan.-March 2022, doi: 10.1109/MAHC.2022.3149469. PDF on this site

2021

• Reid G. Smith, Eric J. Schoen, Joshua Eckroth, David Mack Endres, Sebastian Flores, Julia Elliott, and Bruce G. Buchanan. SPE Research Portal: How SPE Uses Artificial Intelligence to Help You Find Technical Information. The Way Ahead, Society of Petroleum Engineers, July 27, 2021.

2019

• John S. Boden and Reid G. Smith. Powering Knowledge Discovery and Knowledge Flow with AI. Presented at APQC's 2019 Knowledge Management Conference, Houston, TX, May 3, 2019. PDF on this site

2018

• Eric J. Schoen, Reid G. Smith and John S. Boden. AI Supports Information Discovery and Analysis in an SPE Research Portal. Presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Dallas, TX, September 2018. SPE-191758-MS. (SPE Research Portal: https://search.spe.org/)
• Bruce G. Buchanan, Randall Davis, Reid G. Smith and Edward A. Feigenbaum. Expert Systems: A View from Computer Science. In K. Ericsson, R. Hoffman, A. Kozbelt, & A. Williams (Eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology), pp. 84-104, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2018.

2017

• Reid G. Smith and Joshua Eckroth. Building AI Applications: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. AI Magazine 38(1): 6-22, Spring 2017.

2016

• Reid G. Smith. A Quarter Century of AI Applications: What we knew then vs. what we know now. Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Award Lecture. Presented at the Twenty-Eighth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-16), Phoenix, AZ, 15 February, 2016. PDF on this site

2013

• Bruce G. Buchanan, Joshua Eckroth, Reid G. Smith. A Virtual Archive for the History of AI. AI Magazine 34(2): 86-98, Summer 2013. PDF on this site
• Bruce G. Buchanan and Reid G. Smith. Meeting the Responsibility to Explain AI. Presented at the Twenty-Seventh AAAI Conference (AAAI-13), Bellevue, WA, 18 July, 2013. PDF on this site

2012

• J. Eckroth, L. Dong, R. G. Smith and B.G. Buchanan. NewsFinder: Automating an Artificial Intelligence News Service. AI Magazine, 33(2): 43-54, Summer 2012. PDF on this site
• Case Study: Implementing Enterprise Content Management at Marathon Oil. Presented at Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit 2012, Orlando, FL, 12 May, 2012. PDF on this site
• The Intersection of KM, Content Management, Information Management and Records Management (Reid G. Smith and Karen V. Strong). Presented at APQC's 17th Knowledge Management Conference, Houston, TX, 26 April, 2012. PDF on this site

2011

• L. Dong, R. G. Smith and B.G. Buchanan. NewsFinder: Automating an Artificial Intelligence News Service. Twenty-Third IAAI Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI11), July 2011. PDF on this site
• L. Dong, R. G. Smith and B.G. Buchanan. Automating the Selection of Stories for AI in the News. Twenty-fourth International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE 2011), June 2011. PDF on this site
• Making knowledge flow through knowledge connections (Tim Stouffer and Reid G. Smith). Presented at APQC's 16th Knowledge Management Conference, Houston, TX, 12 May, 2011. PDF on this site

2010

• Making knowledge flow through knowledge connections (Reid G. Smith and Tim Stouffer). Presented at Knowledge and Information Management for Oil and Gas USA and Energy Process Excellence Network 2010, Houston, TX, 8 December, 2010.
• Optimizing Information Management To Connect People To Information and Expertise (Reid G. Smith and Damon Simmons). Presented at Integrating Knowledge & Information Management Summit for E&P, Houston, TX, 27 September, 2010. PDF on this site
• Managing an Information Governance Framework on a Global Scale: Maximizing Business Benefit, Minimizing Risk. Presented at Knowledge and Information Management for Oil and Gas, Aberdeen, UK, 29 April, 2010. PDF on this site
• MaraView – Marathon's Enterprise Content Management Solution . Presented at Microsoft Global Energy Forum 2010, Houston, TX, 21 January, 2010.

2008

• Strengthening Information Management for Reduced Risk (Reid G. Smith and Russell Stalters). Presented at Oil & Gas Exchange London 2008, London, England, 18 November, 2008. PDF on this site
• The New Communications World (Karen V. Strong and Reid G. Smith). Presented at Managing Electronic Records 2008, Chicago, IL, 19 May, 2008. PDF on this site
• B.G. Buchanan, J. Glick and R.G. Smith. The AAAI Video Archive. AI Magazine, 29(1): 91-94, Spring 2008.
  • AITopics and Videos website.

2007

• Measuring KM Activity and Progress (Vincent I. Polley and Reid G. Smith). Presented at Knowledge Leadership Forum 2007, New York, NY, 27 April, 2007. PDF on this site

2006

• Lessons Learned in Cross-Cultural Knowledge Sharing. Presented at American University Intercultural Management Institute Annual Conference – Best Practices and New Directions in Intercultural Relations: A Forum for Business, Education, and Training Professionals, Washington, DC, 16 March, 2006. PDF on this site

2005

• R.G. Smith. Add permeability to knowledge flow. E&P, June 2005, pp. 13-17.
• R.G. Smith. Knowledge Flow presentation. PDF on this site

2004

• A.T. Rappaport, D.R. Adamson, L. Shih, R.G. Smith, M. Tenenbaum, B. Khoo, S. Cho, A.C. Wolff, R.W. Carlson, and D.A. Whippen; Medstory, Inc., Burlingame, CA; ASCO, Alexandria, VA; Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA; Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD. Smart Search and Analysis of ASCO Abstracts: The 2003 ASCO Pilot Breast Cancer Information Exchange (BCIE) project. ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology) Annual Meeting Abstracts, New Orleans, 6 June, 2004, Abstract No. 6066. Republished in Journal of Clinical Oncology 22, no. 14_suppl (July 15, 2004) 6066-6066.
  DOI: 10.1200/jco.2004.22.90140.6066
• What's Next for Knowledge Management? Evolution and Revolution (Reid Smith and Guillermo Arango). Presented at APQC's Ninth Knowledge Management Conference – Getting Results from Knowledge Management: Real-World Best Practices. Grapevine, Texas 7 May, 2004. PDF on this site
• Knowledge in Action. Presented at Trinidad & Tobago Institute Of Technology (TTIT), 2 April, 2004. PDF on this site

2003

• Knowledge in Action. Presented to the Whitehall & Industry Group, London, England, 9 December, 2003.
• Retaining Practical Knowledge: Proactive Strategies To Deal With A Shifting Work Force. Presented at the Planned Parenthood Health Care Institute, San Francisco, CA, 1 May, 2003.
• Practical Knowledge Management at Schlumberger – InTouch. Information Management Forum. IT – Leading the Enterprise's Return to Innovation, San Diego, CA, 10 February, 2003.

2002

• Connecting People, Sharing Knowledge: Schlumberger Excellence in Educational Development. 2002 CEO Forum on Sustainable Business, San Jose, CA, 16 October, 2002.
• Practical Knowledge Management at Schlumberger: InTouch. Virtual Communities Conference, London, England, 17 June, 2002.
• Conference Chairman. Knowledge Management in Oil & Gas, London, England, 23-24 May, 2002.

2001

• Panel Member: CKO Panel - The Buyer Perspective. KM & Communities 2001 East, New York, NY, 11 December, 2001.
• Using Global Knowledge Networks to Make a Quantum Leap in Operational Efficiency. Presented at the Interactive Energy Conference, Houston, TX, 6 December, 2001.
• Communities of Practice: Building and Sustaining Knowledge Networks to Drive Business Results (with Bob Newhouse, APQC). Presented at KMWorld 2001, Santa Clara, CA, 30 October, 2001. PDF on this site
• Next Generation Knowledge Management at PDVSA (with Cindy Hubert, APQC). Presented at the Third PDVSA KM International Forum,, Caracas, Venezuela, 16 October, 2001.
• Knowledge Management in Oil & Gas. Presented at the 1st Repsol-YPF Exploration and Production Technical Congress, Madrid, Spain, 26 September, 2001.
• Saad Bargach, Charles Martin and Reid Smith. Managing Drilling Knowledge for Improved Efficiency and Reduced Operational Risk. Presented at the SPE/IADC Drilling Conference, Amsterdam, February 2001. SPE/IADC 67821. Reprinted in the Journal of Petroleum Technology, September, 2001, pp. 83-84.
• Knowledge Management - The Road Ahead. Presented at "Unleashing the Power of Partnerships", the 2nd Conference & Expo of the Staff Exchange Program of The World Bank Group, Washington, D.C., 9 May, 2001. PDF on this site
• Knowledge Management at Schlumberger. Presented at the Leveraging HR through Knowledge Management seminar, Confederation of Indian Industry, Mumbai, India, 3 April, 2001.
• A. Amin, S. Bargach, J. Donegan, C. Martin, R.G. Smith, M. Burgoyne, P. Censi, P. Day and R. Kornberg. Building a Knowledge-Sharing Culture. Oilfield Review 13, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 48-65. PDF on this site
• E. Åbø, L. Chipperfield, C. Mottershead, J. Old, R. Prieto, J. Stemke and R.G. Smith. Managing Knowledge Management. Oilfield Review 13, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 66-83. PDF on this site
• What's Required in Knowledge Technologies - A Practical View. Presented at the Knowledge Technologies Conference, Austin, Texas, 6 March, 2001. PDF on this site

2000

• Reid G. Smith and Adam Farquhar. The Road Ahead for Knowledge Management: An AI Perspective. AI Magazine, 21(4):17-40, Winter 2000. PDF on this site
• Vincent Polley and Reid Smith. KM in the Legal Community: The Schlumberger LawHub. Presented at APQC's Fifth Knowledge Management Conference -Taking Knowledge and Best Practices to the Bottom Line. Las Vegas, 8 December, 2000.
• Technology Support for Communities of Practice. Presented at the American Productivity & Quality Center Knowledge Transfer Session - Successfully Implementing Knowledge Management, Houston, Texas, 8, February, 2000.

1999

• The Road Ahead to Real-Time Knowledge Management. Presented at the Geonetix Conference, Houston, Texas, 28 October, 1999.
• A Roadmap for Knowledge Management. Presented at the National Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Orlando, Florida, 20 July, 1999.

1998

• Knowledge Management. Presented at the Arthur Andersen Energy Symposium, Session on Knowledge Management in the Energy Industry, Houston, December 8, 1998.
• Knowledge Management. Presented at the Technology Ventures Congress, Glasgow, Scotland, October 30, 1998.
• W. E. Preeg, R.G. Smith, and D. E. O'Brien. Advances in E&P Technology That Extend the Development of Conventional Hydrocarbons. Presented at the 17th Congress of the World Energy Council, Houston, Texas, 13-18 September, 1998.
• R.G. Smith and G. C. Maitland. The Road Ahead To Real-Time Oil & Gas Reservoir Management. Transactions of the Institution of Chemical Engineers: Chemical Engineering Research and Design, Vol 76A, pp. 539-552, 1998. PDF on this site
• R&D Management: From Distributed to Virtual.  Presented at the International Quality and Productivity Centre Conference on Managing The Virtual Laboratory: Moving towards 5th Generation R&D, London, UK, February, 1998.

1997

• Technology Challenges in Well Construction and Well Productivity.  Offshore Drilling Technologies Workshop - From Today Through To Tomorrow, Aberdeen, UK, November, 1997.
• G. Arango, N. Colley, C. Connelly, K. Greenes, K. Pearse, J. Denis, P. Highnam, C. Durbec, L. Gutman, D. Sims, S. Jardine, T. Jervis, R. Smith, and R. Miles. What's In IT for Us? Oilfield Review 9, no. 3 (Autumn 1997): 2-19.
• The Road Ahead to Real-Time Reservoir Management.  Technology Foresight Lecture, Royal Society of Edinburgh, UK, 17 April, 1997. (Variants were presented at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 18 April, 1997 and at the GeoQuest European Client Forum, Prague, Czech Republic, 2 May, 1997.)
• Networks and the Web in an International Technical Company.  Technology Strategy Forum, IBM Hursley Park, UK, April, 1997.

1996

• Research and Development Methodology at Schlumberger.  International Quality and Productivity Centre Conference on Performance Measurements for R&D, London, UK, July, 1996 and December, 1996.
• Transforming R&D into a Customer-Focused Organization. 5^th Conference on Global Business Issues of Technology and R&D, Management Centre Europe, Brussels, Belgium, June, 1996 (with V. Reichert). PDF on this site
• New Technology for Reservoir Optimization.  5^th Annual Conference on Advances in Reservoir Technology (ART '96), London, UK, March, 1996.

1995

• Technology Strategy for Schlumberger Oilfield Services.  Petroleum Science and Technology Institute Forum, Edinburgh, UK, November, 1995.
• Panel Member: Industrial case histories, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals Symposium on Assessment of the Value of R&D in Creating National and Corporate Prosperity, Cambridge, UK, October, 1995.
• New Frontiers for Schlumberger.  Cambridge University Petroleum Engineering Conference, Cambridge, UK, September, 1995.
• Redesigning R&D for Improved Oilfield Economics.  AAPG International Conference and Exhibition, Nice, France, September, 1995.

1994

• Panel Member: Information Technology, Stanford Computer Forum, Stanford, CA, USA, February 1994.

1991

• R.G. Smith and A. C. Scott, editors. Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence 3. The AAAI Press/The MIT Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1991.
• A. R. Rappaport and R.G. Smith, editors. Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence 2. The AAAI Press/The MIT Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1991.

1990

• E. Schoen, R.G. Smith, and B. G. Buchanan. The Knowledge Base Designer's Assistant: A Preliminary Report. In M. Tokoro, Y. Anzai, and A. Yonezawa, editors, Concepts and Characteristics of Knowledge-based Systems. pp. 105-136, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1990.
• Keynote Speaker: Artificial Intelligence in the Oilfield: A Schlumberger Perspective.  Artificial Intelligence in Petroleum Exploration and Production Conference, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, May, 1990. PDF on this site

1989

• B. G. Buchanan and R.G. Smith. Fundamentals of Expert Systems. In A. Barr and P. R. Cohen and E. A. Feigenbaum, editors, The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, volume IV, chapter XVIII, pp. 150-192. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1989.
• C. Jette and R.G. Smith. Examples of Reusability in an Object-Oriented Programming Environment. In T. J. Biggerstaff and A. J. Perlis, editors, Software Reusability, volume II: Applications and Experience, pp. 73-101. ACM Press, New York, New York, 1989.
• Panel Member: Review of 1989 Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Detroit, MI, USA, August, 1989.

1988

• E. Schoen, R.G. Smith, and B. G. Buchanan. Design of Knowledge-Based Systems with a Knowledge-Based Assistant. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 14(12):1771-1791, December 1988. PDF on this site
• E. Schoen and R.G. Smith. The Knowledge Base Designer's Assistant: A Preliminary Report. In Proceedings of the Schlumberger Software Conference 1988, pp. 279-293, Ann Arbor, MI, November 1988.
• B. G. Buchanan and R.G. Smith. Fundamentals of Expert Systems. In J. F. Traub, B. J. Grosz, B. W. Lampson, and N. J. Nilsson, editors, Annual Review of Computer Science, volume 3,pp. 23-58. Annual Reviews Inc., Palo Alto, CA, 1988.
• AI at Schlumberger, AAAI National Conference, Panel on Results from a Study of the First Wave of Expert Systems Applications to Business, Saint Paul, MN, USA, August, 1988.

1987

• R.G. Smith, P. S. Barth, and R. L. Young. A Substrate for Object-Oriented Interface Design. In B. Shriver and P. Wegner, editors, Research Directions In Object-Oriented Programming, pp. 253-315. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1987.
• E. Wisniewski, H. Winston, R.G. Smith, and M. Kleyn. A Conceptual Clustering Program for Rule Generation. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, (27):295-313, 1987.
• Knowledge-Intensive Development Environments.  IFIP WG10.1 Workshop on Concepts and Characteristics of Knowledge-Based Systems, Mt. Fuji, Japan, November, 1987.
• Reusability In An Object-Oriented Programming Environment.  AMCEE/NTU Software Reuse Seminar (Satellite Broadcast), Palo Alto, CA, USA, October, 1987.
• B.G. Buchanan and R.G. Smith. Expert Systems Project Management.  AAAI National Conference, Tutorial No. MA-2, Seattle, WA, July, 1987. PDF on this site
• Form and Content in Knowledge-Intensive Development Environments.  IEEE CompCon, Panel on Future Knowledge Engineering Environments, San Francisco, CA, February, 1987. PDF on this site

1986

• R.G. Smith and R. L. Young. Dipmeter Advisor System: Log Interpretation System in Oil Field. In Expert Systems: Theory and Application, pp. 227-242. Nikkei McGraw-Hill, Inc., Tokyo, Japan, 1986. (In Japanese)
• R.G. Smith, R. Dinitz, and P. Barth. Impulse-86: A Substrate for Object-Oriented Interface Design. In Proceedings of the First ACM Conference on Object Oriented Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA'86), pp. 167-176, September 1986.
• H. A. Winston, R.G. Smith, M. Kleyn, and T. M. Mitchell and B. G. Buchanan. Learning Apprentice Systems Research at Schlumberger. In T. M. Mitchell, J. G. Carbonell, and R. S. Michalski, editors, Machine Learning: A Guide to Current Research, pp. 379-383. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, 1986.
• G. M. E. Lafue and R.G. Smith. Implementation of An Integrity Manager With A Knowledge Representation System. In L. Kerschberg, editor, Expert Database Systems. Springer-Verlag, 1986, pp. 333-350.
• Knowledge-Intensive Development Environments. AAAI National Conference, Panel on Future Directions for Expert Systems, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August, 1986. PDF on this site

1985

• R.G. Smith. Report on the 1984 Distributed Artificial Intelligence Workshop. AI Magazine, 6(3):234-243, Fall 1985.
• Representation in Knowledge-Based Systems.  AI Europa, Wiesbaden, Germany, September, 1985. PDF on this site
• R.G. Smith, H. A. Winston, T. M. Mitchell, and B. G. Buchanan. Representation and Use of Explicit Justifications for Knowledge Base Refinement. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 673-680, Los Angeles, CA, August 1985. PDF on this site
• G. M. E. Lafue and R.G. Smith. A Modular Tool Kit For Knowledge Management. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 46-52, Los Angeles, CA, August 1985.
  Reprinted in Readings in Artificial Intelligence and Databases, J. Mylopoulos and M. L. Brodie, editors, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 1988.
• Information Appliances: Relevant Artificial Intelligence Themes.  National Computer Conference, Panel on Trends in Computer Systems Technology, Chicago, IL, USA, July 15, 1985. PDF on this site
• Substrates for Log Interpretation and Interpretation Development.  AAPG Research Conference on Knowledge-Based Geologic Information Systems, Keystone, CO, USA, May, 1985 (with Eric Schoen and Gilles Lafue).
• Computational Description of Depositional Environments.  AAPG Research Conference on Knowledge-Based Geologic Information Systems, Keystone, CO, USA, May, 1985 (with Robert Young and Gordon Pirie).
• Knowledge-Based Systems: Concepts, Techniques, Examples.  Canadian High Technology Show , Ottawa, ON, Canada, May 8, 1985 (half-day course). PDF on this site
• R.G. Smith, R. L. Young, G. Lafue, and H. Winston. The Expert Geology Systems Program: Schlumberger-Doll Research. SIGART Newsletter, (92):118-120, April 1985 (Special Section on AI in Engineering, D. Sriram and R Joobbani, editors).

1984

• R.G. Smith and R. L. Young. The Design of the Dipmeter Advisor System. In Proceedings of the ACM Annual Conference, pp. 15-23, New York, October 1984.
• Artificial Intelligence Methods In Well Logging: Substrates and Systems.  International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Potential for Applications, La Chartreuse de Villeneuve-les-Avignon, France, October, 1984.
• R.G. Smith, G. M. E. Lafue, E. Schoen, and S. C. Vestal. Declarative Task Description as a User Interface Structuring Mechanism. IEEE Computer, 17(9):29-38, September 1984. PDF on this site
• R.G. Smith. On the Development of Commercial Expert Systems. AI Magazine, 5(3):61-73, Fall 1984. Reprinted in Readings from AI Magazine, Volumes 1-5, 1980-1985, R. Engelmore, editor, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, 1988.
• Knowledge-Based System Technology and Well Logging.  5th Generation Computing and Expert Systems Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, September, 1984.

1983

• An Expert System For Dipmeter Interpretation.  Society of Exploration Geophysicists Symposium, Las Vegas, NV, USA, September, 1983.
• R. Davis and R.G. Smith. Negotiation as a Metaphor for Distributed Problem Solving. Artificial Intelligence, 20:63-109, 1983. Reprinted in Marc-Philippe Huget (Ed.). Communication in Multiagent Systems: Agent Communication Languages and Conversation Policies (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2650). Springer Verlag, August 2003.
• E. Schoen and R.G. Smith. Impulse: A Display-Oriented Editor for Strobe. In Proceedings of the National Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, pp. 356-358, Washington, DC, August 1983.
• R.G. Smith. Review of Machine Intelligence 10. Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 21, pp. 351-359, 1983.
• R.G. Smith and J. D. Baker. The Dipmeter Advisor System: A Case Study in Commercial Expert System Development. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 1, pp. 122-129, Karlsrühe, Germany, August 1983.
• R.G. Smith. Strobe: Support For Structured Object Knowledge Representation. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 855-858, Karlsrühe, Germany, August 1983.

1982

• R.G. Smith. CNET: Simulation of Distributed Problem Solving. SIGART Newsletter, No. 80, p. 16, April 1982.

1981

• T. M. Mitchell, L. Steinberg, R.G. Smith, P. Schooley, H. Jacobs, and V. Kelly. Representations For Reasoning About Digital Circuits. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 343-344, Vancouver, Canada, August 1981.
• R.G. Smith and R. Davis. Frameworks For Cooperation In Distributed Problem Solving. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC-11(1):61-70, January 1981. Reprinted in Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence, A. H. Bond and L. Gasser, editors, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 1988. PDF on this site
• R.G. Smith. A Framework For Distributed Problem Solving. UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 1981.

1980

• R.G. Smith. The Contract Net Protocol: High-Level Communication and Control in a Distributed Problem Solver. IEEE Transactions on Computers, C-29(12):1104-1113, December 1980. Reprinted in Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence, A. H. Bond and L. Gasser, editors, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 1988. PDF on this site
• R.G. Smith and P. Friedland. Unit Package User's Guide. Technical Memorandum 80/L, Defence Research Establishment Atlantic, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, December 1980. Also published as HPP-80-28, Heuristic Programming Project, Stanford University. PDF on this site
• R. Davis and R.G. Smith. Cooperative Problem Solving With The Contract Net. SIGART Newsletter, No. 73, pp. 45-46, October 1980.
• R.G. Smith. Applications Of The Contract Net Framework: Search. In Proceedings of the 1980 National Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, pp. 232-239, Saskatoon, Canada, May 1980. PDF on this site

1979

• R.G. Smith and R. Davis. Cooperation In Distributed Problem Solving. In Proceedings of the 1979 International Conference on Cybernetics and Society, pp. 366-371, October 1979.
• R.G. Smith. The Contract Net Protocol: High-Level Communication And Control In A Distributed Problem Solver. In Proceedings of the First International Conference On Distributed Computing Systems, pp. 185-192, October 1979.
• R.G. Smith. A Framework For Distributed Problem Solving. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 836-841, Tokyo, Japan, August 1979.

1978

• R.G. Smith. A Framework For Problem Solving In A Distributed Processing Environment. Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, December 1978. Also published as Stanford University Computer Science Department Technical Report STAN-CS-78-700 (HPP-78-28).
  • Contract Net Code and Sample Output - Interlisp (December 1978). PDF on this site
• R.G. Smith and R. Davis. Applications Of The Contract Net Framework: Distributed Sensing. In Proceedings of the ARPA Distributed Sensor Net Symposium, pp. 12-20, December 1978.
• R.G. Smith and T. M. Mitchell. Considerations For Microprocessor-based Terminal Design. In Proceedings of the 12th Annual Asilomar Conference on Circuits, Systems, and Computers, pp. 437-441, November 1978. PDF on this site
  • Slides from the presentation. PDF on this site
  • Photos. PDF on this site
  • SMITCH-0 DataMedia Elite 2500 Terminal Emulator (SMITCH0.MAC80). PDF on this site
  • SMITCH-0 Downloader (dload.sai). PDF on this site
  • SMITCH-0 Local Operating System (LMON). PDF on this site
• R.G. Smith and R. Davis. Distributed Problem Solving: The Contract Net Approach. In Proceedings of the Second National Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, pp. 278-287, Toronto, Canada, July 1978.
• B. G. Buchanan, T. M. Mitchell, R.G. Smith, and C. R. Johnson Jr. Models of Learning Systems. In Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, volume 11, pp. 24-51. Marcel Dekker, New York, NY, 1978. PDF on this site

1977

• R.G. Smith. The CONTRACT NET: A Formalism For The Control Of Distributed Problem Solving. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, p. 472, Cambridge, MA, August 1977.
• R.G. Smith, T. M. Mitchell, R. A. Chestek, and B. G. Buchanan. A Model For Learning Systems. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 338-343, Cambridge, MA, August 1977.
• R. Chestek, R.G. Smith, and B. Widrow. Adaptive Formation Of Resource Allocation Strategies. Technical Report SEL-32-76, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, March 1977.

1976

• R.G. Smith. Cepstrum Analysis For Passive Sonar Data Processing. U. S. Navy Journal of Underwater Acoustics, Vol. 21, pp. 317-326, April 1976.

1975

• R.G. Smith. Cepstrum Discrimination Function. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IT-21(3):332-334, May 1975.  PDF on this site

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Reflections on Knowledge Management

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