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AIList Digest Sunday, 22 May 1983 Volume 1 : Issue 6
Today's Topics:
Lectureships at Edinburgh University
Distributed Problem-Solving: An Annotated Bibliography
Loglan Cross Reference
Re: Esperanto and LOGLAN
Latest AI Journal Issue
IBM EPISTLE System
Software Copyright Info
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Date: Thursday, 12-May-83 10:31:00-BST
From: DAVE FHL (on ERCC DEC-10) <bowen@edxa>
Reply-to: bowen%edxa%ucl-cs@isid
Subject: Lectureships at Edinburgh University
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UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - VLSI design and IKBS.
1 Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence (ref IT2/1)
1 Lecturer in Computer Science (ref IT2/2)
1 Lecturer in Electrical Engineering (ref IT2/3)
These new lectureships are being funded to expand the M.Sc. teaching
carried out by the 3 departments in collaboration. The posts are
available from 1 October 83, but the starting dates could be adjusted
to attract the right candidates. These are tenure track posts.
The teaching and research interests sought are: Artificial
Intelligence: Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems. Computer Science:
Probably VLSI design, but need not be so. Electrical Engineering:
VLSI design.
Salary scales (under review): 6375-13505 pounds p.a. according to age,
qualifications and experience.
For further details write to the Secretary to the University, Old
College, South Bridge, Edinburgh EH8 9YL, Scotland, quoting one or
more reference numbers as required (IT2/1-3 as above).
Applications (3 copies) including CV and names and adresses of 3
referees should be sent to the same address. If you have applied in
response to the previous Computer Science advert, ref. 1055, then you
will be considered for posts IT2/2 and IT2/3 without further
application.
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Date: Tue 17 May 83 23:14:55-PDT
From: Vineet Singh <vsingh@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA>
Subject: Distributed Problem-Solving: An Annotated Bibliography
This is to request contributions to an annotated bibliography of
papers in *Distributed Problem-Solving* that I am currently compiling.
My plan is to make the bibliography available to anybody that is
interested in it at any stage in its compilation. Papers will be from
many diverse areas: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Systems
(especially Distributed Systems and Multiprocessors), Analysis of
Algorithms, Economics, Organizational Theory, etc.
Some miscellaneous comments. My definition of distributed
problem-solving is a very general one, namely "the process of many
entities engaged in solving a problem", so feel free to send a
contribution if you are not sure that a paper is suitable for this
bibliography. I also encourage you to make short annotations; more
than 5 sentences is long. All annotations in the bibliography will
carry a reference to the author. If your bibliography entries are in
Scribe format that's great because the entire bibliography will be in
Scribe.
Vineet Singh (VSINGH@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA)
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Date: 18 May 83 17:46:05-PDT (Wed)
From: harpo!seismo!rlgvax!jack @ Ucb-Vax
Subject: Loglan Cross Reference
People interested by submissions on Loglan should see also net.nlang.
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Date: 16 May 1983 1817-EDT (Monday)
From: Robert.Frederking@CMU-CS-A (C410RF60)
Subject: Re: Esperanto and LOGLAN
I'm curious about something mentioned about these languages:
has anyone made any claims regarding the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and
the fluent users of these languages?
Bob
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Date: 11 May 1983 2151-EDT
From: NUDEL.CL@RUTGERS (NUDEL.CL)
Subject: Latest AI Journal Issue
[I just pulled this and the following messages from various local
BBoards that Mabry Tyson makes available at SRI-AI. -- KIL]
[...]
I just received a copy of the March issue of the AI journal from North
Holland and I see that the talk Haralick gave here Monday appears in
that issue of AI as well. You may like to look at the March AI in
general - it is a special issue devoted to Search and Heuristics (in
memory of John Gaschnig), and covers recent AI research of a more
formal nature than the usual AI variety. It looks like it will become
something of a classic, with papers by Pearl, Simon, Karp, Lenat,
Purdom (who also spoke here a while ago), yours-truly, Kanal, Nau and
Haralick.
Bernard
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Date: 9 May 83 22:57:31 EDT
From: John Stuckey @CMUC
Subject: Presentation of IBM EPISTLE system
Dr. Lance A. Miller, director of the Language and Knowledge Systems
Laboratory of IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown
Heights, will be on campus Tuesday, 10 May. He will give a
presentation of the lab's EPISTLE system for language analysis from 2
to 3 pm in Gregg Hall, PH 100. The presentation is entitled "On Text
Composition and Quality: The IBM EPISTLE system's alternatives to
NEWSPEAK."
Abstract:
The immediate goals of the EPISTLE system are to provide useful
text-critiquing functions for assuring the "quality" of written
English text. Today the system plunges through the densest prose and
provides an "automatic unique parse" description of the surface
syntactic structure of each sentence. This description provides the
basis for the present capability to detect almost all errors of
grammar and, shortly, to raise its editorial eyebrow at a large number
of stylistic questionables (e.g., a la @i<Chicago Manual of Style>).
This present Orwellian capability to render binary evaluative
decisions on arbitrary text does not, however, reflect the ultimate
design goals of the system. These, the present state, and the
internal workings of the system will be discussed.
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Date: 16 May 1983 17:28:42-EDT
From: Michael.Young at CMU-CS-SPICE
Subject: software copyright info
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications January/Februrary issue of
this year has an interesting article on software copyrighting and
patents, and includes loads of references to other cases and
references. It is a well-documented case history and summary of the
current situation for anyone concerned with legal issues.
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