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AIList Digest Volume 1 Issue 009
AIList Digest Sunday, 29 May 1983 Volume 1 : Issue 9
Today's Topics:
More information on Esperanto
Address Correction & Addition
High Technology Articles
Request for Expert System Info
Reading machines (2)
Administrative Policy
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Date: 23 May 83 21:24:39 EDT (Mon)
From: Fred Blonder <fred.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay>
Subject: More information on Esperanto
[...]
The best place to contact is:
Esperanto League for
North America, Inc.
P.O. Box 1129
El Cerrito, CA 34530
They promote Esperanto wherever they can and publish a newsletter
every few months. They also operate the ``Esperanto Book Service'' (at
the same address) which can supply Esperanto textbooks, Esperanto
translations of literary works, original Esperanto literary works,
tapes, records etc. Send them a dollar when writing to them if you
want their complete catalog.
This is a partial listing of their books which may be of interest (and
is probably out of date, but it's all I have):
Teach Yourself Esperanto, 205p $3.95 (basic text)
Esperanto Dictionary, 419p $3.50
Pasoj al Plena Posedo, 240p $5.50 (advanced text)
La ingenia hidalgo Don Quijote da la Mancha
820p $35.00 (just what you think it is)
Asteriks la Gaulo 48p $7.00 (comic book)
There's also some strange Esperanto/Computer-Science organization
based in Budapest, which mails their newsletter from Sofia Bulgaria.
I'm on their mailing list, but haven't heard from them in over a year.
Whatever it was, it probably died out.
I've also seen some pornographic books written in Esperanto, but don't
know where they can be obtained. Speaking of which: all of the
fivortoj (fee-VOR-toy: dirty words) in Esperanto were originated by a
doctor who was a friend of the originator of the language, and who had
a sincere interest in the language, so you know they're medically and
grammatically correct. What other language do you know which can boast
this?
Bonan tagon,
Fred
<fred.umcp-cs@Udel-Relay>
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Date: 23 May 1983 1021-CDT
From: Jonathan Slocum <LRC.Slocum@UTEXAS-20>
Subject: Address Correction & Addition
Note that ISSCO has moved; here's the new address:
ISSCO
54 rte. des Acacias
1227 Geneve
Switzerland
(No telephone numbers changed.) While I'm at it, I'll plug my org:
The Linguistics Research Center of the University of Texas (host of
our friendly MCC) is engaged in R&D for Machine Translation [of
natural languages]. A German-English translation system is running,
has translated close to 700 pages of material of various sorts (mostly
op./maint. manuals, but also things like software/hardware
descriptions and sales brochures), and is near commercial viability.
An English-German system is underway, with another major effort to
develop a third language about to begin. In addition, a visiting
Chinese scholar is expected to begin experimenting with
English-Chinese translation later this year.
Address for technical reports, etc:
Linguistics Research Center
P.O. Box 7247
University Station
Austin, Texas 78712
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Date: Sat 28 May 83 22:25:40-PDT
From: Laws@SRI-AI <AIList-Request@SRI-AI.ARPA>
Subject: High Technology Articles
The June edition of High Technology contains a several interesting
articles. There are minor pieces on industrial robots, laser printers
for electronic publishing, and 16-bit micros; also a feature on video
games (again).
There is a lengthy extract from Ed Feigenbaum and Pamela McCorduck's
new book on the Japanese fifth generation effort. It seems to be a
balanced presentation.
There is also a good review of dataflow and reduction architectures,
with some mention of other alternatives to von Neumann computers. The
Real World is beginning to take notice.
-- Ken Laws
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Date: 24 May 1983 0827-PDT
From: RTAYLOR at USC-ECL
Subject: Request for Expert System Info
Ken,
I get the AIList via the BB at RADC-TOPS20. (I have access to
RADC-Multics and TOPS-20 both, as well as the USC-ECL machine. I
usually use the USC-ECL machine for msg composing.) I am the newest
member of the AI Group located at RADC (Rome, NY) working with Nort
Fowler. I am responsible for expert systems and expert systems tools.
Like Sam Holtzman, I am interested in expert systems literature and AI
in general. I am trying to "build" a reference library for our use
here at RADC.
My in house project is "to evaluate existing knowledge base tools
which have been used to build expert systems. This evaluation will
determine the strengths and weaknesses of these various tools; such as
their ease of use, their knowlege base management techniques, and
their knowledge base maintenance techniques."
Those systems/tools I am currently pursing are: age, ap3, emycin,
expert, frl, hearsay, kas, kee, ops5, prospector, rll, ross, and
units. We have access to interlisp, and are in the process of
acquinring maclisp. Among other things, I am supposed to acquire
these and any others I can find and that we can afford. After
acquiring them, I am to "get up to speed" on each, then bring the
other members of the group up to speed on each. Then we are to take a
series of problems ("graded levels of difficulty"), and solve each
problem using each tool/system.
In a sense, for each tool, I'll have to come up with suggested
instructions or some sort of tutorial--at least enough to get each
member started experimenting on their own. Needless to say, I've
never worked with any of these tools before, and have limited
knowledge of what might be available (out there) to help me.
In summary, I am looking for 1) literature and references for our
library, 2) expert systems/tools for our collection and in house use
and evaluation, and 3) any existing tutorial-oriented help for the
above tools and any other (tools) which might be suggested we
investigate.
Thanks for the help and for listening. Please direct info and/or
further questions to me: rtaylor at ecl.
Roz
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Date: 25 May 83 5:38:25-PDT (Wed)
From: decvax!cca!linus!genrad!wjh12!n44a!ima!inmet!bhyde @ Ucb-Vax
Subject: Reading machines? - (nf)
Ah why is that you can't seem to buy a machine to read printed text
that actually works?
Ben Hyde
bhyde!inmet
[This seems to be an indirect request for information on the state of
the art in reading machines. As a start, I suggest
J. Schurman, Reading Machines, Proc. 6th Int. Conf. on
Pattern Recognition, Munich, Oct. 1982, pp. 1031-1044.
-- KIL]
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Date: 27 May 83 20:11:30-PDT (Fri)
From: hplabs!hao!seismo!presby!burdvax!hdj @ Ucb-Vax
Subject: Re: Reading machines -- an answer to the question
Doesn't Kurzweil (sp?), a Xerox Company, I think, make such a machine?
I heard about it a couple of years ago; it can supposedly recognize
almost any font, is trainable, can read four or five lines of text at
once, and more. I haven't heard much about the company or their
machine recently. Anyone know more?
Herb Jellinek, SDC Logic-Based Systems Group, burdvax!hdj
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Date: 22 May 1983 1321-PDT
From: Keith Wescourt
Reply-to: Wescourt@USC-ISI
Subject: Administrative Policy
Ken,
You might want to consider whether job announcements, like the one
posted by Gordon Novak (originally only to SU-BBOARDS) included in
this AILIST issue, violate the ARPANET policies about commercial use.
I can imagine that job announcements from universities and non-profits
are acceptable, but that those from private, profit-making outfits and
their contracted headhunters are not. Note that Gordon's original was
not transmitted via ARPANET, so he could not have violated any DCA
policies.
Note that I work for a private, profit-making R&D company and it would
be very much to our advantage to exploit our access to the ARPANET for
advertising job openings.
Keith
[Quite right; I apologize for picking up the item and will not report
specific solicitations in the future. Lab descriptions and other
indirect information are still welcome. -- KIL]
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