Publications of Peter Szolovits

A small (but growing) number of the papers below are available directly in the Web. Hypertext links from the title of a paper lead to HTML-readable versions, and links labeled (postscript) lead to PostScript files.

Notes:

Most of the postscript files assume that you will be printing them on a printer that has the 35 normal fonts of the Apple LaserWriter Plus and its descendants. This includes most modern postscript printers.
Because final copy-editing and corrections of papers normally take place on paper rather than electronically, the versions here may not correspond exactly to their published counterparts.
1. R. Bigelow, N. R. Greenfeld, P. Szolovits, and F. B. Thompson. Specialized languages: an applications methodology. In Proceedings of the 1973 National Computer Conference, pages M49-53, AFIPS Press, 1973.
2. P. Szolovits. A Specialized Language Implementation Facility. REL Project Report 10, Calif. Inst. of Technology, Pasadena, CA, December 1973.
3. P. Szolovits. The REL Language Writer's Language: A Metalanguage for Implementing Specialized Applications Languages. PhD thesis, Calif. Inst. of Technology, Pasadena, CA, October 1974.
4. F. B. Thompson, R. Bigelow, N. R. Greenfeld, J. Odden, and P. Szolovits. The REL animated film language. In Proc. Conf. on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Boulder, Co., ACM Siggraph, 1974.
5. S. G. Pauker, P. Szolovits, H. Silverman, W. Swartout, and G. A. Gorry. A computer program that captures clinical expertise about digitalis therapy and provides explanations of its recommendations. In Computer Networking in the University: Success and Potential; Proc. of the EDUCOM Fall Conference, pages 187-189, EDUCOM, 1976.
6. P. Szolovits and S. G. Pauker. Research on a medical consultation system for taking the present illness. In Proceedings of the Third Illinois Conference on Medical Information Systems, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, November 1976.
7. P. Szolovits, L. Hawkinson, and W. A. Martin. An overview of the OWL language for knowledge representation. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Natural Language Interaction with Databases, Schloss Laxenburg, Austria, January 1977. Also appeared as MIT/LCS/TM-86 (1977).
8. S. G. Pauker and P. Szolovits. Analyzing and simulating taking the history of the present illness: context formation. In Schneider and Sagvall Hein, editors, Computational Linguistics in Medicine, pages 109-118, North Holland, 1977.
9. P. Szolovits and S. G. Pauker. Categorical and probabilistic reasoning in medical diagnosis. Artificial Intelligence, 11:115-144, 1978. (Also in large (2.2MB) PDF.)
10. P. Szolovits. Coordinating the use of categorical and probabilistic reasoning. In W. B. Jarzembski and B. A. Rowley, editors, Proc. 1978 Computer Laboratory Health Care Resources Workshop, pages 21-43, Texas Technical University School of Medicine, Lubbock, Texas, January 1978.
11. P. Szolovits. The lure of numbers--how to live with and without them in medical diagnosis. In B. E. Statland and S. Bauer, editors, Proceedings of the Colloquium in Computer-Assisted Decision Making Using Clinical and Paraclinical (Laboratory) Data, pages 65-76, Technicon Co., Tarrytown, NY, 1978.
12. P. Szolovits and S. G. Pauker. Computers and clinical decision making: Whether, how, and for whom? Proceedings of the IEEE, 67:1224-1226, 1979.
13. P. Szolovits. Artificial Intelligence and Clinical Problem Solving. TM 140, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Computer Science, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA, 02139, September 1979.
14. P. Szolovits. Brand X Manual. TM 186, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Computer Science, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA, 02139, November 1980.
15. P. Szolovits and W. A. Martin. BRAND X: Lisp support for semantic networks. Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 940-946, 1981.
16. R. S. Patil, P. Szolovits, and W. B. Schwartz. Causal understanding of patient illness in medical diagnosis. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 893-899, 1981.
17. P. Szolovits. Providing intelligent medical advice by computer. In H. S. Eden and M. Eden, editors, Microcomputers in Patient Care, pages 96-113, Noyes Data Corp., Park Ridge, N.J., 1981.
18. R. S. Patil, P. Szolovits, and W. B. Schwartz. Information acquisition in diagnosis. In Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 345-348, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, 1982.
19. P. Szolovits, editor. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Volume 51 of AAAS Selected Symposium Series, Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1982.
20. P. Szolovits. Artificial intelligence and medicine. In P. Szolovits, editor, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, pages 1-19, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1982.
21. P. Szolovits and William J. Long. The development of clinical expertise in the computer. In P. Szolovits, editor, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, pages 79-117, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1982.
22. R. S. Patil, P. Szolovits, and W. B. Schwartz. Modeling knowledge of the patient in acid-base and electrolyte disorders. In P. Szolovits, editor, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, pages 187-222, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1982.
23. P. Szolovits. Artificial intelligence methods for medical expert systems. In Proc. Amer. Med. Informatics Assn. Congress 82, AMIA, 1982.
24. P. Szolovits. Using artificial intelligence models of medical decision making in medical education. In J.-C. Pages, A. H. Levy, F. Gremy, and J. Anderson, editors, Meeting the Challenge: Informatics and Medical Education, pages 271-281, North Holland, 1983.
25. P. Szolovits. Toward more perspicuous expert system organization. SIGART Newsletter, 85:9, July 1983. Part of the special report on the Workshop on Automated Explanation Production.
26. P. Szolovits. Types of knowledge as bases for reasoning in medical AI programs. In I. De Lotto and M. Stefanelli, editors, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, North Holland, 1986. Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Pavia, Italy, Sept. 1985.
27. A. R. Potvin, W. G. Crosier, E. Fromm, J. C. Lin, M. R. Neuman, T. C. Pilkington, C. J. Robinson, L. W. Schneider, J. W. Strohbehn, P. Szolovits, et al. Report of an IEEE task force-an IEEE opinion on research needs for biomedical engineering systems. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 33(1):48-59, 1986.
28. P. Szolovits. Survey on expert systems. In M. L. Brodie and J. Mylopoulos, editors, On Knowledge Base Management Systems: Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Database Technologies, chapter 24, Springer- Verlag, 1986.
29. P. Szolovits, J. P. Kassirer, W. J. Long, A. J. Moskowitz, S. G. Pauker, R. S. Patil, and M. P. Wellman. An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Clinical Decision Making. TM 310, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Computer Science, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA, 02139, September 1986.
30. W. B. Schwartz, R. S. Patil, and P. Szolovits. Artificial intelligence in medicine: where do we stand. New England Journal of Medicine, 316:685-688, 1987.
31. P. Szolovits. Expert systems tools and techniques: past, present and future. In W. E. L. Grimson and R. S. Patil, editors, AI in the 1980s and Beyond: An MIT Survey, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1987.
32. P. Szolovits, R. S. Patil, and W. B. Schwartz. Artificial Intelligence in Medical Diagnosis. Annals of Internal Medicine, 108:80-87, 1988.
33. P. Szolovits. How Can Computer Programs Reason?" CARDIOSTIM 88, Monaco. 1988.
34. I. J. Haimowitz, R. S. Patil, and P. Szolovits. Representing Medical Knowledge in a Terminological Language is Difficult. Proc. Twelfth Annual Symp. on Computer Applications in Medical Care, IEEE Computer Society Press, 101-105, 1988.
35. D. E. Hirsch, S. R. Simon, T. Bylander, M. A. Weintraub, and P. Szolovits. Using causal reasoning in gait analysis. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 3(2-3):337-356, 1989. (postscript--not final paper version, and missing figures)
36. S. R. Simon, T. Bylander, M. A. Weintraub, P. Szolovits, and D. E. Hirsch. DR. GAIT: An expert system for gait analysis. Transactions on Orthopaedic Research 13(2):330, 1989.
37. R. Franier, N. Groleau, R. Bhatnagar, C. Lam, M. Compton, S. Colombano, S. Lai, P. Szolovits, M. Manahan, I. Statler, and L. Young. A comparison of CLIPS- and LISP-based approaches to the development of a real-time expert system. In Proceedings of the First CLIPS Conference, pages 321-333, 1990.
38. A. R. Meyer, J. V. Guttag, R. L. Rivest and P. Szolovits, editors. Research Directions in Computer Science: An MIT Perspective. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1991.
39. P. Szolovits. Knowledge-Based Systems. In A. R. Meyer, et al., editors, Research Directions in Computer Science: An MIT Perspective, pages 317-370, MIT Press, 1991. (postscript)
40. P. Szolovits. Compilation for Fast Calculation over Pedigrees. Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics 59:136-138, 1992. (postscript)
41. P. Rosenbloom and P. Szolovits, editors. Proceedings: Tenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AAAI Press/MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1992.
42. P. Szolovits and S. P. Pauker. Pedigree Analysis for Genetic Counseling. In Lun, K. C., et al. (eds.), MEDINFO 92: Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Medical Informatics, pages 679-683. Elsevier (North Holland) 1992. (postscript)
43. P. Szolovits and S. G. Pauker. Categorical and Probabilistic Reasoning in Medicine Revisited. Artificial Intelligence 59:167-180, 1993.
44. R. Davis, H. Shrobe, and P. Szolovits. What is a Knowledge Representation? AI Magazine, 14(1):17-33, 1993. (postscript)
45. R. J. Frainier, N. Groleau, L. R. Hazelton, S. P. Colombano, M. M. Compton, I. Statler, P. Szolovits and L. R. Young. PI-in-a-box: a Knowledge-Based System for Space Science Experimentation, Fifth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 1993
46. L. R. Hazelton, N. Groleau, R. J. Frainier, M. M. Compton, S. P. Colombano and P. Szolovits. PI in the Sky: the Astronaut Science Advisor on SLS-2, Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Space Operations and Research Conference, Houston, Texas, August 1993.
47. S. P. Colombano, I. C. Statler, R. J. Frainier, L. R. Hazelton, N. Groleau, M. M. Compton, P. Szolovits and L. R. Young. The Astronaut Science Advisor: tradeoffs between communications with the ground and onboard intelligence, Proceedings of Computing in Aerospace 9, San Diego, California, October 1993.
48. N. Groleau, L. R. Hazelton, R. J. Frainier, M. M. Compton, S. P. Colombano and P. Szolovits. Portable Computing: A Fielded Interactive Scientific Application in a Small Off-The-Shelf Package, Proceedings of Computing in Aerospace 9, San Diego, California, October 1993.
49. P. Szolovits and S. G. Pauker. Editorial Commentary: A Coherent Philosophy for Development or a Straightjacket for Research. Methods of Information in Medicine 32:16-17, 1993.
50. P. Szolovits, J. Doyle, W. J. Long, I. Kohane and S. G. Pauker. Guardian Angel: Patient-Centered Health Information Systems. TR-604, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Computer Science, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA, 02139, May 1994. (postscript)
51. P. Szolovits and I. Kohane. Against Universal Health-care Identifiers. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 1:316-319, 1994. (postscript)
52. R. D. Shachter, S. K. Andersen and P. Szolovits. Global Conditioning for Probabilistic Inference in Belief Networks. Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence 94. Morgan Kaufmann. 514-522, 1994. (postscript)
53. Robert A. Greenes, G. Octo Barnett, Stephen G. Pauker, Peter Szolovits and Milton C. Weinstein. The Harvard-MIT-NEMC Research Training Program in Medical Informatics. In J. H. van Bemmel and A. T. McCray, eds., Yearbook of Medical Informatics 94, pages 105-110. Stuttgart, Germany: Schattauer. 1994. (postscript)
54. P. Szolovits. Uncertainty and Decisions in Medical Informatics. Methods of Information in Medicine, 34:111-21, 1995. (postscript)
55. P. Szolovits. A Revolution in Electronic Medical Record Systems via the World Wide Web. In proceedings of the International Association for the Advancement of Health Information Technology, 1995.
56. Kohane, P. Greenspun, P. Szolovits et al. W3-EMRS: Access to Multi-Institutional Electronic Medical Records via the World Wide Web. Spring Congress of AMIA, Boston MA, 1995
57. F. van Wingerde, P. Szolovits, I. Kohane, et al. Using HL7 and the World Wide Web for unifying patient data from remote databases. In: Cimino J, ed. Proceedings, Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care. Washington, DC: Hanley & Belfus, Inc., pages 643-647, 1996.
58. Kohane, F. van Wingerde, J. Fackler, et al. Sharing electronic medical records across multiple heterogeneous and competing institutions. In: Cimino J, ed. Proc. SCAMC. Washington, DC: Hanley & Belfus, Inc., pages 608-612, 1996.
59. Wang K, van Wingerde FJ, Bradshaw K, Szolovits P, Kohane I. A Java-based multi-institutional medical information retrieval system. Proc AMIA Annual Fall Symp. 1997:538-42.
60. Kohane, I. S., H. Dong and P. Szolovits. “Health information identification and de-identification toolkit.” Proc AMIA Symp. 1998:356-60.
61. Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council, For the Record: Protecting Electronic Health Information. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1997.
62. J. D. Halamka, P. Szolovits, D. Rind, C. Safran. A WWW Implementation of National Recommendations for Protecting Electronic Health Information. J Am Med Inform Assoc4(6) 458-464.
63. Rind DM, Kohane IS, Szolovits P, et al. Maintaining Confidentiality of Medical Records Shared over the Internet and World Wide Web. Annals of Internal Medicine, 127(2) 138–141, 1997.
64. Institute of Medicine Committee on the Role of Institutional Review Boards in Health Services Research Data Privacy Protection, Protecting Data Privacy in Health Services Research. Washington, DC. National Academy Press, 2000.
65. Fraser HS, Szolovits P, et al. (2001). “TeleMedMail: free software to facilitate telemedicine in developing countries.” Medinfo; 10(Pt 1): 815-9
66. Mandl KD, Szolovits P, Kohane IS. “Public standards and patients’ control: how to keep electronic medical records accessible but private.” British Medical Journal Feb 3, 2001. 322(7281): 283-7.
67. Jon Doyle, Isaac Kohane, William Long, Howard Shrobe, and Peter Szolovits, "Event recognition beyond signature and anomaly", Proc. Second IEEE-SMC Information Assurance Workshop, West Point, New York, June 5-6, 2001.
68. Jon Doyle, Isaac Kohane, William Long, Howard Shrobe, and Peter Szolovits, "Agile Monitoring for Cyber Defense", Proc. Second DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition (DISCEX-II), Anaheim, California, June 12-14, 2001.
69. Riva A, Mandl KD, Szolovits P, Kohane IS, et al. “The personal internetworked notary and guardian.” International Journal of Medical Informatics June 2001; 62(1): 27-40.
70. Wu, M., Mui, L., Mohtashemi, M., and Szolovits, P. Secure Health Information Sharing System: SHARE. [poster] Proc AMIA, 2001.
71. Mui, M. Mohtashemi, C. Ang, P. Szolovits, A. Halberstadt, A. “Ratings in Distributed Systems: A Bayesian Approach.” 11th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), New Orleans, 2001.
72. L. Mui, C. Ang, M. Mohtashemi, P. Szolovits, A. Halberstadt. “Collaborative Sanctioning : Enabling Principled Reliability and Reputation Ratings for Distributed Systems.” Laboratory for Computer Science Technical Memorandum No. 617, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001.
73. Long, W. J., Doyle, J., Burke, G., Szolovits, P. “Detection of Intrusion Across Multiple Sensors.” Proc. AeroSense: Technologies and Systems for Defense & Security. 5107:21. Orlando, Florida, April 15-21, 2003.
74. Szolovits P. Adding a medical lexicon to an English Parser. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2003:639-43.
75. Long, W., Chung, S., Mandl, K. D., Szolovits, P, Shannon, M. “Diagnosis of bioagents and emerging diseases. MEDINFO 2004. 2004:1726.
76. Lacson R, Lacson Jr E, Szolovits P. Discourse structure of medical dialogue. Medinfo. 2004;2004(CD):1703.
77. Lacson R, Lacson Jr E, Szolovits P. Home hemodialysis queries. Medinfo. 2004;2004(CD):1703.
78. Fraser, H. S. F., Biondich, P., Moodley, D., Choi, S., Mamlin, B. and Szolovits, P. “Implementing electronic medical record systems in developing countries.” Informatics in Primary Care 2005:13:83-95.
79. Fioriglio, G. and Szolovits, P. “Copy Fees and Patients' Rights to Obtain a Copy of Their Medical Records: From Law to Reality.” Proc. AMIA 2005, 251-255.
80. Mohtashemi, M, Szolovits, P., Dunyak, J., Mandl, K.D. “A susceptible-infected model of early detection of respiratory infection outbreaks on a background of influenza.” Journal of Theoretical Biology, 241:954-963, 2006.
81. P. Sebastiani, K. D. Mandl, P. Szolovits, I. S. Kohane, M. F. Ramoni. A Bayesian dynamic model for influenza surveillance. Statistics in Medicine, 25:11:1803-16 (Jun 15, 2006). Discussion follows on pp. 1817-25.