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AIList Digest Thursday, 29 Sep 1983 Volume 1 : Issue 65
Today's Topics:
Automatic Translation - French-to-English Request,
Music and AI - Request,
Publications - CSLI Newsletter & Apollo User's Mailing List,
Seminar - Parallel Algorithms: Cook at UTexas Oct. 6,
Lab Reports - UM Expansion,
Software Distributions - Maryland Franz Lisp Code,
Conferences - Intelligent Sys. and Machines, CSCSI,
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Date: Wed 28 Sep 83 11:37:27-PDT
From: David E.T. Foulser <FOULSER@SU-SCORE.ARPA>
Subject: Re: Automatic Translation
I'm looking for a program to perform automatic translation from
French to English. The output doesn't have to be perfect (I hardly
expect it). I'll appreciate any leads you can give me.
Dave Foulser
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Date: Wed 28 Sep 83 18:46:09-EDT
From: Ted Markowitz <TJM@COLUMBIA-20.ARPA>
Subject: Music & AI, pointers wanted
I'd like to hear from anyone doing work that somehow relates AI and
music in some fashion. Particularly, are folks using AI programs and
techniques in composition (perhaps as a composer's assistant)? Any
responses will be passed on to those interested in the results.
--ted
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Date: Mon 26 Sep 83 12:08:44-CDT
From: Lauri Karttunen <Cgs.Lauri@UTEXAS-20.ARPA>
Subject: CSLI newsletter
[Reprinted from the UTexas-20 bboard.]
A copy of the first newsletter from the Center for the Study of
Language and Information (CSLI) at Stanford is in
PS:<CGS.PUB>CSLI.NEWS. The section on "Remote Affiliates" is of some
interest to many people here.
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Date: Thu, 22 Sep 83 14:29:56 EDT
From: Nathaniel Mishkin <Mishkin@YALE.ARPA>
Subject: Apollo Users Mailing List
This message is to announce the creation of a new mailing list:
Apollo@YALE
in which I would like to include all users of Apollo computers who are
interested in sharing their experiences about Apollos. I think all
people could benefit from finding out what other people are doing on
their Apollos.
Mail to the list will be archived in some public place that I will
announce at a later date. At least initially, the list will not be
moderated or digested. If the volume is too great, this may change.
If you are interested in getting on this mailing list, send mail to:
Apollo-Request@YALE
If several people at your site are interested in being members and
your mail system supports local redistribution, please tell me so I
can add a single entry (e.g. "Apollo-Podunk@PODUNK") instead of one
for each person.
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Date: Mon 26 Sep 83 16:44:31-CDT
From: CS.GLORIA@UTEXAS-20.ARPA
Subject: Cook Colloquium, Oct 6
[Reprinted from the UTexas-20 bboard.]
Stephen A. Cook, University of Toronto, will present a talk entitled
"Which Problems are Subject to Exponential Speed-up by Parallel Computers?"
on Thursday, Oct. 6 at 3:30 p.m. in Painter Hall 4.42.
Abstract:
In the future we expect large parallel computers to exist with
thousands or millions of processors able to work together on a single
problem. There is already a significant literature of published algorithms
for such machines in which the number of processors available is treated
as a resource (generally polynomial in the input size) and the computation
time is extremely fast (polynomial in the logarithm of the input size).
We shall give many examples of problems for which such algorithms exist
and classify them according to the kind of algirithm which can be used.
On the other hand, we will give examples of problems with feasible sequential
algorithms which appear not to be amenable to such fast parallel algorithms.
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Date: 21 Sep 83 16:33:08 EDT (Wed)
From: Mark Weiser <mark%umcp-cs@UDel-Relay>
Subject: UM Expansion
[Due to a complaint that even academic job ads constitute an
"egregious violation" of Arpanet standards, and following failure of
anyone to reply to my subsequent queries, I have decided to publish
general notices of lab expansions but not specific positions. The
following solicitation has been edited accordingly. -- KIL]
The University of Maryland was recently awarded 4.2 million dollars
by the National Science Foundation to develop the hardware and
software for a parallel processing laboratory. More than half of
the award amount is going directly for hardware acquisition, and
this money is also being leveraged through substantial vendor
discounts and joint research programs now being negotiated. We
will be buying things like lots of Vaxes, Sun's, Lisp Machines,
etc., to augment our current 2 780's, ethernet, etc. system.
Several new permanent positions are being created in the Computer
Science Department for this laboratory.
[...]
Anyone interested should make initial inquiries, send resumes, etc.
to Mark Weiser at one of the addresses below:
Mark Weiser
Computer Science Department
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
(301) 454-6790/4251/6291 (in that order).
UUCP: {seismo,allegra,brl-bmd}!umcp-cs!mark
CSNet: mark@umcp-cs
ARPA: mark.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay
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Date: 26 Sep 83 17:32:04-PDT (Mon)
From: decvax!mcvax!philabs!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!umcp-cs!liz @ Ucb-Vax
Subject: Maryland software distribution
Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.2755
This is to announce the availability of the Univ of Maryland software
distribution. This includes source code for the following:
1. The flavors package written in Franz Lisp. This package has
been used successfully in a number of large systems at Maryland,
and while it does not implement all the features of Lisp Machine
Flavors, the features present are as close to the Lisp Machine
version as possible within the constraints of Franz Lisp.
(Note that Maryland flavors code *can* be compiled.)
2. Other Maryland Franz hacks including the INTERLISP-like top
level, the lispbreak error handling package, the for macro and
the new loader package.
3. The YAPS production system written in Franz Lisp. This is
similar to OPS5 but more flexible in the kinds of lisp expressions
that may appear as facts and patterns (sublists are allowed
and flavor objects are treated atomically), the variety of
tests that may appear in the left hand sides of rules and the
kinds of actions may appear in the right hand sides of rules.
In addition, YAPS allows multiple data bases which are flavor
objects and may be sent messages such as "fact" and "goal".
4. The windows package in the form of a C loadable library. This
flexible package allows convenient management of multiple
contexts on the screen and runs on ordinary character display
terminals as well as bit-mapped displays. Included is a Franz
lisp interface to the window library, a window shell for
executing shell processes in windows, and a menu package (also
a C loadable library).
You should be aware of the fact that the lisp software is based on
Franz Opus 38.26 and that we will be switching to the newer version
of lisp that comes with Berkeley 4.2 whenever that comes out.
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To obtain the Univ of Maryland distribution tape:
1. Fill in the form below, make a hard copy of it and sign it.
2. Make out a check to University of Maryland Foundation for $100,
mail it and the form to:
Liz Allen
Univ of Maryland
Dept of Computer Science
College Park MD 20742
3. If you need an invoice, send me mail, and I will get one to you.
Don't forget to include your US Mail address.
Upon receipt of the money, we will mail you a tape containing our
software and the technical reports describing the software. We
will also keep you informed of bug fixes via electronic mail.
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The form to mail to us is:
In exchange for the Maryland software tape, I certify to the
following:
a. I will not use any of the Maryland software distribution in a
commercial product without obtaining permission from Maryland
first.
b. I will keep the Maryland copyright notices in the source code,
and acknowledge the source of the software in any use I make of
it.
c. I will not redistribute this software to anyone without permission
from Maryland first.
d. I will keep Maryland informed of any bug fixes.
e. I am the appropriate person at my site who can make guarantees a-d.
Your signature, name, position,
phone number, U.S. and electronic
mail addresses.
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If you have any questions, etc, send mail to me.
--
-Liz Allen, U of Maryland, College Park MD
Usenet: ...!seismo!umcp-cs!liz
Arpanet: liz%umcp-cs@Udel-Relay
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 83 14:57:00 EDT
From: Morton A. Hirschberg <mort@brl-bmd>
Subject: Conference Announcement
**************** CONFERENCE ****************
"Intelligent Systems and Machines"
Oakland University, Rochester Michigan
April 24-25, 1984
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A notice for call for papers should also appear through SIGART soon.
Conference Chairmen: Dr. Donald Falkenburg (313-377-2218)
Dr. Nan Loh (313-377-2222)
Center for Robotics and Advanced Automation
School of Engineering
Oakland University
Rochester, MI 48063
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AUTHORS PLEASE NOTE: A Public Release/Sensitivity Approval is necessary.
Authors from DOD, DOD contractors, and individuals whose work is government
funded must have their papers reviewed for public release and more
importantly sensitivity (i.e. an operations security review for sensitive
unclassified material) by the security office of their sponsoring agency.
In addition, I will try to answer questions for those on the net. Mort
Queries can be sent to mort@brl
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Date: Mon 26 Sep 83 11:08:58-PDT
From: Ray Perrault <RPERRAULT@SRI-AI.ARPA>
Subject: CSCSI call for papers
CALL FOR PAPERS
C S C S I - 8 4
Canadian Society for
Computational Studies of Intelligence
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario
May 18-20, 1984
The Fifth National Conference of the CSCSI will be held at
the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. Papers are
requested in all areas of AI research, particularly those listed
below. The Program Committee members responsible for these areas
are included.
Knowledge Representation :
Ron Brachman (Fairchild R & D), John Mylopoulos (U of Toronto)
Learning :
Tom Mitchell (Rutgers U), Jaime Carbonell (CMU)
Natural Language :
Bonnie Weber (U of Pennsylvania), Ray Perrault (SRI)
Computer Vision :
Bob Woodham (U of British Columbia), Allen Hanson (U Mass)
Robotics :
Takeo Kanade (CMU), John Hollerbach (MIT)
Expert Systems and Applications :
Harry Pople (U of Pittsburgh), Victor Lesser (U Mass)
Logic Programming :
Randy Goebel (U of Waterloo), Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser U)
Cognitive Modelling :
Zenon Pylyshyn, Ed Stabler (U of Western Ontario)
Problem Solving and Planning :
Stan Rosenschein (SRI), Drew McDermott (Yale)
Authors are requested to prepare Full papers, of no more
than 4000 words in length, or Short papers of no more than 2000
words in length. A full page of clear diagrams counts as 1000
words. When submitting, authors must supply the word count as
well as the area in which they wish their paper reviewed. (Com-
binations of the above areas are acceptable). The Full paper
classification is intended for well-developed ideas, with signi-
ficant demonstration of validity, while the Short paper classifi-
cation is intended for descriptions of research in progress. Au-
thors must ensure that their papers describe original contribu-
tions to or novel applications of Artificial Intelligence, re-
gardless of length classification, and that the research is prop-
erly compared and contrasted with relevant literature.
Three copies of each submitted paper must be in the hands of
the Program Chairman by December 7, 1983. Papers arriving after
that date will be returned unopened, and papers lacking word
count and classifications will also be returned. Papers will be
fully reviewed by appropriate members of the program committee.
Notice of acceptance will be sent on February 28, 1984, and final
camera ready versions are due on March 31, 1984. All accepted
papers will appear in the conference proceedings.
Correspondence should be addressed to either the General
Chairman or the Program Chairman, as appropriate.
General Chairman Program Chairman
Ted Elcock, John K. Tsotsos
Dept. of Computer Science, Dept. of Computer Science,
Engineering and Mathematical 10 King's College Rd.,
Sciences Bldg., University of Toronto,
University of Western Ontario Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
London, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A4
N6A 5B9 (416)-978-3619
(519)-679-3567
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