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AIList Digest Volume 1 Issue 075
AIList Digest Thursday, 13 Oct 1983 Volume 1 : Issue 75
Today's Topics:
Music & AI - Poll Results,
Alert - September CACM,
Fuzzy Logic - Zadeh Syllogism,
Administrivia - Usenet Submissions & Seminar Notices,
Seminars - HP 10/13/83 & Rutgers Colloquium
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Date: 11 Oct 83 16:16:12 EDT (Tue)
From: Randy Trigg <randy%umcp-cs@UDel-Relay>
Subject: music poll results
Here are the results of my request for info on AI and music.
(I apologize for losing the header to the first mail below.)
- Randy
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Music in AI - find Art Wink formerly of U. of Pgh. Dept of info sci.
He had a real nice program to imitate Debuse (experts could not tell
its compositions from originals).
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Date: 22 Sep 83 01:55-EST (Thu)
From: Michael Aramini <aramini@umass-cs>
Subject: RE: AI and music
At the AAAI conference, I was talking to someone from Atari (from Atari
Cambridge Labs, I think) who was doing work with AI and music. I can't
remember his name, however. He was working (with others) on automating
transforming music of one genre into another. This involved trying to
quasi-formally define what the characteristics of each genre of music are.
It sounded like they were doing a lot of work on defining ragtime and
converting ragtime to other genres. He said there were other people at Atari
that are working on modeling the emotional state various characteristics of
music evoke in the listener.
I am sorry that I don't have more info as to the names of these people or how
to get in touch with them. All that I know is that this work is being done
at Atari Labs either in Cambridge, MA or Palo Alto, CA.
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Date: Thu 22 Sep 83 11:04:22-EDT
From: Ted Markowitz <TJM@COLUMBIA-20>
Subject: Music and AI
Cc: TJM@COLUMBIA-20
Having an undergrad degree in music and working toward a graduate
degree in CS, I'm very interested in any results you get from your
posting. I've been toying with the idea of working on a music-AI
interface, but haven't pinned down anything specific yet. What
is your research concerned with?
--ted
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Date: 24 Sep 1983 20:27:57-PDT
From: Andy Cromarty <andy@aids-unix>
Subject: Music analysis/generation & AI
There are 3 places that immediately come to mind:
1. There is a huge and well-developed (indeed, venerable) computer
music group at Stanford. They currently occupy what used to be
the old AI Lab. I'm sure someone else will mention them, but if
not call Stanford (or send me another note and I'll find a net address
you can send mail to for details.)
2. Atari Research is doing a lot of this sort of work -- generation,
analysis, etc., both in Cambridge (Mass) and Sunnyvale (Calif.), I
believe.
3. Some very good work has come out of MIT in the past few years.
David Levitt is working on his PhD in this area there, having completed
his masters in AI approaches to Jazz improvisation, if my memory serves,
and I think William Paseman also wrote his masters on a related topic
there. Send mail to LEVITT@MIT-MC for info -- I'm sure he'd be happyy
to tell you more about his work.
asc
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Date: Wed 12 Oct 83 09:40:48-PDT
From: Ken Laws <Laws@SRI-AI.ARPA>
Subject: Alert - September CACM
The September CACM contains the following interesting items:
A clever cover graphically illustrating the U.S. and Japanese
approaches to the Fifth Generation.
A Harper and Row ad (without prices) including Touretzky's
LISP: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation and
Eisenstadt and O'Shea's Artificial Intelligence: Tools,
Techniques and Applications. [AIList would welcome reviews.]
An editorial by Peter J. Denning on the manifest destiny of
AI to succeed because the concept is easily grasped, credible,
expected to succeed, and seen as an improvement.
An introduction and three articles about the Fifth Generation,
Japanese management, the Japanese effort, and MCC.
A report on BELLE's slim victory in the 13th N.A. Computer Chess
Championship.
A note on the sublanguages (i.e., natural restricted languages)
conference at NYU next January.
A note on DOD's wholesale adoption of ADA.
-- Ken Laws
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Date: Wed 12 Oct 83 09:24:34-PDT
From: Ken Laws <Laws@SRI-AI.ARPA>
Subject: Zadeh Syllogism
Lotfi Zadeh used a syllogism yesterday that was new to me. To
paraphrase slightly:
Cheap apartments are rare and highly sought.
Rare and highly sought objects are expensive.
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Cheap apartments are expensive.
I suppose any reasonable system will conclude that cheap apartments
cannot exist, which may in fact be the case.
-- Ken Laws
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Date: Wed 12 Oct 83 10:20:57-PDT
From: Ken Laws <Laws@SRI-AI.ARPA>
Reply-to: AIList-Request@SRI-AI
Subject: Usenet Submissions
It has come to my attention that I may be failing to distribute
some Usenet-originated submissions back to Usenet readers. If
this is true, I apologize. I have not been simply ignoring
submissions; if you haven't heard from me, the item was distributed
to the Arpanet.
The problem involves the Article-I.D. field in Usenet-
originated messages. The gateway software (maintained by
Knutsen@SRI-UNIX) ignores digest items containing this keyword
so that messages originating from net.ai will not be posted
back to net.ai.
Unfortunately, messages sent directly to AIList instead of to
net.ai also contain this keyword. I have not been stripping it
out, and so the submission have not been making it back to Usenet.
I will try to be more careful in the future. Direct AIList
contributors who want to be sure I don't slip should begin
their submissions with a "strip ID field" comment. Even a
"Dear Moderator," might trigger my editing instincts. I hope
to handle direct submissions correctly even without prompting,
but the visible distinction between the two message types is
slight.
-- Ken Laws
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Date: Wed 12 Oct 83 10:04:03-PDT
From: Ken Laws <Laws@SRI-AI.ARPA>
Reply-to: AIList-Request@SRI-AI
Subject: Seminar Notices
There have been a couple of net.ai requests lately that seminar
notices be dropped, plus a strong request that they be
continued. I would like to make a clear policy statement
on this matter. Anyone who wishes to discuss it further
may write to AIList-Request@SRI-AI; I will attempt to
compile opinions or moderate the disscussion in a reasonable
manner.
Strictly speaking, AIList seldom prints "seminar notices".
Rather, it prints abstracts of AI-related talks. The abstract
is the primary item; the fact that the speaker is graduating
or out "selling" is secondary; and the possibility that AIList
readers might attend is tertiary. I try to distribute the
notices in a timely fashion, but responses to my original
query were two-to-one in favor of the abstracts even when the
talk had already been given.
The abstracts have been heavily weighted in favor of the
Bay Area; some readers have taken this to be provincialism.
Instead, it is simply the case that Stanford, Hewlett-Packard,
and occasionally SRI are the only sources available to me
that provide abstracts. Other sources would be welcome.
In the event that too many abstracts become available, I will
institute rigorous screening criteria. I do not feel the need
to do so at this time. I have passed up database, math, and CS
abstracts because they are outside the general AI and data
analysis domain of AIList; others might disagree. I have
included some borderline seminars because they were the first
of a series; I felt that the series itself was worth publicizing.
I can't please all of the people all of the time, but your feedback
is welcome to help me keep on course. At present, I regard the
abstracts to be one of AIList's strengths.
-- Ken Laws
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Date: 11 Oct 83 16:30:27 PDT (Tuesday)
From: Kluger.PA@PARC-MAXC.ARPA
Reply-to: Kluger.PA@PARC-MAXC.ARPA
Subject: HP Computer Colloquium 10/13/83
Piero P. Bonissone
Corporate Research and Development
General Electric Corporation
DELTA: An Expert System for Troubleshooting
Diesel Electric Locomotives
The a priori information available to the repair crew is a list of
"symptoms" reported by the engine crew. More information can be
gathered in the "running repair" shop, by taking measurements and
performing tests provided that the two hour time limit is not exceeded.
A rule based expert system, DELTA (Diesel Electric Locomotive
Troubleshooting Aid) has been developed at the General Electric
Corporate Research and Development Laboratories to guide in the repair
of partially disabled electric locomotives. The system enforces a
disciplined troubleshooting procedure which minimizes the cost and time
of the corrective maintenance allowing detection and repair of
malfunctions in the two hour window allotted to the service personnel in
charge of those tasks.
A prototype system has been implemented in FORTH, running on a Digital
Equipment VAX 11/780 under VMS, on a PDP 11/70 under RSX-11M, and on a
PDP 11/23 under RSX-11M. This system contains approximately 550 rules,
partially representing the knowledge of a Senior Field Service Engineer.
The system is provided with graphical/video capabilities which can help
the user in locating and identifying locomotive components, as well as
illustrating repair procedures.
Although the system only contains a limited number of rules (550), it
covers, in a shallow manner, a wide breadth of the problem space. The
number of rules will soon be raised to approximately 1200 to cover, with
increased depth, a larger portion of the problem space.
Thursday, October 13, 1983 4:00 PM
Hewlett Packard
Stanford Division Labs
5M Conference room
1501 Page Mill Rd
Palo Alto, CA 9430
** Be sure to arrive at the building's lobby ON TIME, so that you may
be escorted to the meeting room.
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Date: 11 Oct 83 13:47:44 EDT
From: LOUNGO@RUTGERS.ARPA
Subject: colloquium
[Reprinted from the RUTGERS bboard. Long message.]
Computer Science Faculty Research Colloquia
Date: Thursday, October 13, 1983
Time: 2:00-4:15
Place: Room 705, Hill Center, Busch Campus
Schedule:
2:00-2:15 Prof. Saul Amarel, Chairman, Department of Computer Science
Introductory Remarks
2:15-2:30 Prof. Casimir Kulikowski
Title: Expert Systems and their Applications
Area(s): Artificial intelligence
2:30-2:45 Prof. Natesa Sridharan
Title: TAXMAN
Area(s): Artificial intelligence (knowledge representation),
legal reasoning
2:45-3:00 Prof. Natesa Sridharan
Title: Artificial Intelligence and Parallelism
Area(s): Artificial intelligence, parallelism
3:00-3:15 Prof. Saul Amarel
Title: Problem Reformulations and Expertise Acquisition;
Theory Formation
Area(s): Artificial intelligence
3:15-3:30 Prof. Michael Grigoriadis
Title: Large Scale Mathematical Programming;
Network Optimization; Design of Computer Networks
Area(s): Computer networks
3:30-3:45 Prof. Robert Vichnevetsky
Title: Numerical Solutions of Hyperbolic Equations
Area(s): Numerical analysis
3:45-4:00 Prof. Martin Dowd
Title: P~=NP
Area(s): Computational complexity
4:00-4:15 Prof. Ann Yasuhara
Title: Notions of Complexity for Trees, DAGS,
*
and subsets of {0,1}
Area(s): Computational complexity
COFFEE AND DONUTS AT 1:30
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Date: 11 Oct 83 13:48:35 EDT
From: LOUNGO@RUTGERS.ARPA
Subject: colloquium
To: BBOARD@RUTGERS.ARPA
cc: pettY@RUTGERS.ARPA, lounGO@RUTGERS.ARPA
ReSent-date: Wed 12 Oct 83 09:11:56-PDT
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ReSent-to: ailist@SRI-AI.ARPA
Computer Science Faculty Research Colloquia
Date: Friday, October 14, 1983
Time: 2:00-4:15
Place: Room 705, Hill Center, Busch Campus
Schedule:
2:00-2:15 Prof. Tom Mitchell
Title: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Area(s): Artificial intelligence
2:15-2:30 Prof. Louis Steinberg
Title: An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Computer-Aided
Design for VLSI
Area(s): Artificial intelligence, computer-aided design, VLSI
2:30-2:45 Prof. Donald Smith
Title: Debugging VLSI Designs
Area(s): Artificial intelligence, computer-aided design, VLSI
2:45-3:00 Prof. Apostolos Gerasoulis
Title: Numerical Solutions to Integral Equations
Area(s): Numerical analysis
3:00-3:15 Prof. Alexander Borgida
Title: Applications of AI to Information Systems Development
Area(s): Artificial intelligence, databases,
software engineering
3:15-3:30 Prof. Naftaly Minsky
Title: Programming Environments for Evolving Systems
Area(s): Software engineeging, databases, artificial
intelligence
3:30-3:45 Prof. William Steiger
title: Random Algorithms
area(s): Analysis of algorithms, numerical methods,
non-numerical methods
3:45-4:00
4:00-4:15
Computer Science Faculty Research Colloquia
Date: Thursday, October 20, 1983
Time: 2:00-4:15
Place: Room 705, Hill Center, Busch Campus
Schedule:
2:00-2:15 Prof. Thomaz Imielinski
Title: Relational Databases and AI; Logic Programming
Area(s): Dabtabases, artificial intelligence
2:15-2:30 Prof. David Rozenshtein
Title: Nice Relational Databases
Area(s): Databases, data models
2:30-2:45 Prof. Chitoor Srinivasan
Title: Expert Systems that Reason About Action with Time
Area(s): Artificial intelligence, knowledge-based systems
2:45-3:00 Prof. Gerald Richter
Title: Numerical Solutions to Partial Differential Equations
Area(s): Numerical analysis
3:00-3:15 Prof. Irving Rabinowitz
Title: - To be announced -
Area(s): Programming languages
3:15-3:30 Prof. Saul Levy
Title: Distributed Computing
Area(s): Computing, computer architecture
3:30-3:45 Prof. Yehoshua Perl
Title: Sorting Networks, Probabilistic Parallel Algorithms,
String Matching
Area(s): Design and analysis of algorithms
3:45-4:00 Prof. Marvin Paull
Title: Algorithm Design
Area(s): Design and analysis of algorithms
4:00-4:15 Prof. Barbara Ryder
Title: Incremental Data Flow Analysis
Area(s): Design and analysis of algorithms,
compiler optimization
COFFEE AND DONUTS AT 1:30
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