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AIList Digest Saturday, 11 Feb 1984 Volume 2 : Issue 16
Today's Topics:
Lab Description - New UCLA AI Lab,
Report - National Computing Environment for Academic Research,
AI Journal - New Developments in the Assoc. for Computational Linguistics,
Course - Organization Design,
Conference - Natural Language and Logic Programming & Systems Science
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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 84 22:57:55 PST
From: Michael Dyer <dyer@UCLA-CS>
Subject: New UCLA AI Lab
Announcing the creation of a new Lab for
Artificial Intelligence Research at UCLA.
Just recently, the UCLA CS department received a private foundation
grant of $450,000 with $250,000 matching funds from the School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences to create a Laboratory for Artificial
Intelligence Research. The departmental chairman as well as the dean
strongly support this effort and are both committed to the growth of AI
at UCLA.
In addition, UCLA has been chosen as the site of the next International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-85) in August, 1985.
UCLA is second in the nation among public research universities and in
the top six overall in quality of faculty, according to a new national
survey of 5,000 faculty and 228 universities. In a two year study
(conducted by the Conference Board of the Associated Research Councils,
consisting of the American Council of Learned Societies, the American
Council on Education, the National Research Council and the Social
Science Research Council) the UCLA Computer Science Dept. tied for
sixth place with U. of Ill., after Stanford, MIT, CMU, UC Berkeley, and
Cornell.
The UCLA CS department is the recipient (in 1982) of a $3.6 million
five-year NSF Coordinated Experimental Research grant, augmented by a
$1.5 million award from DARPA.
Right now the AI lab includes a dozen Apollo DN300 workstations on an
Apollo Domain ring network. This ring is attached via an ethernet gate
to the CS department LOCUS network of 20 Vax 750s and a 780. UCLA is on
the Arpanet and CSNet. Languages include Prolog and T (a Scheme-based
dialect of lisp). A number of DN320s, DN460s and a color Apollo (DN660)
are on order and will be housed in a new area being reserved for
graduate AI research. One Vax 750 on the LOCUS net and 10 Apollos will
be reserved for graduate AI instruction. Robotics and vision equipment
is also being acquired. The CS dept is seeking an assist. prof.
(tenure track) in the area of AI, with preference for vision, robotics,
problem-solving, expert systems, learning, and simulation of cognitive
processes. The new AI faculty member will be able to direct expenditure
of a portion of available funds. (Interested AI PhDs, reply to Michael
Dyer, CS dept, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024. Arpanet: dyer@ucla-cs).
Our AI effort is new, but growing, and includes the following faculty:
Michael Dyer: natural language processing, cognitive modeling.
Margot Flowers: reasoning, argumentation, belief systems.
Judea Pearl: theory of heuristics, search, expert systems.
Alan Klinger: signal processing, pattern recognition, vision.
Michel Melkanoff: CAD/CAM, robotics.
Stott Parker: logic programming, databases.
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Date: 26 Jan 84 14:22:30-EDT (Thu)
From: Kent Curtis <curtis%nsf-cs@CSNet-Relay>
Subject: A National Computing Environment for Academic Research
The National Science Foundation has released a report entitled "A National
Computing Environment for Academic Research" prepared by an NSF Working Group
on Computers for Research, Kent Curtis, Chairman. The table of contents is:
Executive Summary
I. The Role of Modern Computing in Scientific and Engineering Research
with Special Concern for Large Scale Computation
Background
A. Summary of Current Uses and Support of Large Scale Computing for
Research
B. Critique of Current Facilities and Support Programs
C. Unfilled Needs for Computer Support of Research
II. The Role and Responsibilities of NSF with Respect to Modern Scientific
Computing
III. A Plan of Action for the NSF: Recommendations
IV. A Plan of Action for the NSF: Funding Implications
Bibliography
Appendix
Large-scale Computing Facilities
If you are interested in receiving a copy of this report contact
Kent Curtis, (202) 357-9747; curtis.nsf-cs@csnet-relay;
or write Kent K. Curtis
Div. of Computer Research
NSF
Washington, D.C. 20550
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Date: 10 Feb 84 09:35:51 EST (Fri)
From: Journal Duties <acl@Rochester.ARPA>
Subject: ~New Developments in the Assoc. for Computational Linguistics
The AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS -- Some New Developments
The AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS is the major
international journal devoted entirely to computational approaches to
natural language research. With the 1984 volume, its name is being changed
to COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS to reflect its growing international coverage.
There is now a European chapter of the ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL
LINGUISTICS and a growing interest in forming one in Asia.
The journal also has many new people on its Editorial Staff. James Allen,
of the University of Rochester, has taken over as Editor. The FINITE STRING
Editor is now Ralph Weischedel of the University of Delaware. Lyn Bates of
Bolt Beranek and Newman is the Book Review Editor. Michael McCord, now at
IBM, remains as Associate Editor.
With these major changes in editorial staffing, the journal has fallen
behind schedule. In order to catch up this year, we will be publishing
close to double the regular number of issues. The first issue for 1983,
which was just mailed out, contains papers on "Paraphrasing Questions Using
Given and New Information" by Kathleen McKeown and "Denotational Semantics
for 'Natural' Language Question-Answering Programs" by Michael Main and
David Benson. There is a lengthy review of Winograd's new book by Sergei
Nirenburg and a comprehensive description of the new Center for the Study
of Language and Information at Stanford University.
Highlights of the forthcoming 1983 AJCL issues:
- Volume 9, No. 2 (expected March '84) will contain, in addition
to papers on "Natural Language Access to Databases: Interpreting Update
Requests" by Jim Davidson and Jerry Kaplan and "Treating Coordination
in Logic Grammars" by Veronica Dahl and Michael McCord, will be accompanied
by a supplement: a Directory of Graduate Programs in Computational Linguistics.
The directory is the result of two years of surveys, and provides a fairly
complete listing of programs available internationally.
- Volume 9, Nos. 3 and 4 (expected June '84) will be a special double
issue on Ill-Formed Input. The issue will cover many aspects of processing
ill-formed sentences from syntactic ungrammaticality to dealing with inaccurate
reference. It will contain papers from many of the research groups that
are working on such problems.
We will begin publishing Volume 10 later in the summer. In addition
to the regular contributions, we are planning a special issue on the
mathematical properties of grammatical formalisms. Ray Perrault (now at
SRI) will be guest editor for the issue, which will contain papers addressing
most of the recent developments in grammatical formalisms (e.g., GPSG,
Lexical-Function Grammars, etc). Also in the planning stage is a special
issue on Machine Translation that Jonathan Slocum is guest editing.
With its increased publication activity in 1984, COMPUTATIONAL
LINGUISTICS can provide authors with an unusual opportunity to have their
results published in the international community with very little delay.
A paper submitted now (early spring '84) could actually be in print by the
end of the year, provided that major revisions need not be made. Five
copies of submissions should be sent to:
James Allen, CL Editor
Dept. of Computer Science
The University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627, USA
Subscriptions to COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS come with membership in the
ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS, which still is only $15 per year.
As a special bonus to new members, those who join the ACL for 1984 before
August will receive the special issue on Ill-Formed Input, even though it is
formally part of the volume for 1983.
To become a member, simply send your name, address and a check made out to
the Association for Computational Linguistics to:
Don Walker, ACL membership
SRI International
333 Ravenswood Avenue
Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
People in Europe or with Swiss accounts can pay an equivalent value in Swiss
francs, by personal check in their own currency, or by a banker's draft that
credits account number 141.880.LAV at the Union Bank of Switzerland, 8 rue
de Rhone, CH-1211 Geneva 11, SWITZERLAND; send the statement with payment or
with a copy of the bank draft to:
Mike Rosner, ACL
ISSCO
54, route des Acacias
CH-1227 Geneva, SWITZERLAND
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Date: Wednesday, 8 February 1984, 14:28-EST
From: Gerald R. Barber <JERRYB at MIT-OZ>
Subject: Course Announcement: Organization Design
[Forwarded by SASW@MIT-MC.]
The following is an announcement for a course that Tom Malone and I are
organizing for this spring term. Anyone who is interested can come to
the course or contact:
Tom Malone
Malone@XX
E53-307, x6843,
or
Jerry Barber
Jerryb@OZ
NE43-809, x5871
Course Announcement
15.963 Oranization Design
Wednesdays, 2:30 - 5:30 p.m, E51-016
Prof. Thomas Malone
In this graduate seminar we will review research from a number of
fields, identifying general principles of organization design that apply
to many kinds of information processing systems, including human
organizations and computer systems. This novel approach will integrate
examples and theories from computer science, artificial intelligence,
organization theory and economics. The seminar will also include
discussion of several special issues that arise when these general
principles are applied to designing organizations that include both
people and computers.
A partial list of topics includes:
I. Introduction
A. What is an organization?
Scott, March & Simon, Etzioni, etc
B. What is design?
Simon: Science of Design
II. Alternative Organizational Designs
A. Markets
Computer Systems: Contract Nets, Enterprise
Organizational Theories: Simon, Arrow, Hurwicz
B. Hierachies
Computer Systems: Structured programming, inheritance
hierarchies
Organizational Theories: Simon, March, Cyert, Galbraith,
Williamson
C. Cooperating experts (or teams)
Computer Systems: Hearsay, Ether, Actors, Smalltalk, Omega
Organizational Theories: Marschak & Radner, Minsky & Papert
III. Integrating Computer Systems and Human Organizations
A. Techniques for analyzing organizational needs
Office Analysis Methodology, Critical Success Factors,
Information Control Networks, Sociotechnical systems
B. Possible technologies for supporting organizational problem-solving
Computer conferencing, Knowledge-based systems
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Date: Thu 2 Feb 84 20:35:47-PST
From: Pereira@SRI-AI
Subject: Natural Language and Logic Programming
Call for Papers
International Workshop On
Natural Lanugage Understanding
and Logic Programming
Rennes, France - September 18-20, 1984
The workshop will consider fundamental principles and important
innovations in the design, definition, uses and extensions of logic
programming for natural language understanding and, conversely, the
adequacy of logic programming to express natural language grammar
formalisms. The topics of interest are:
* Formal representations of natural language
* Logic grammar formalisms
* Linguistic aspects (anaphora, coordination,...)
* Analysis methods
* Natural language generation
* Uses of techniques for logic grammars (unification)
in other grammar formalisms
* Compilers and interpreters for grammar formalisms
* Text comprehension
* Applications: natural-language front ends (database
interrogation, dialogues with expert systems...)
Conference Chairperson
Veronica Dahl Simon Fraser University,
Burnaby B.C. V5A 1S6
Canada
Program Committee
H. Abrahamson (UBC, Canada) F. Pereira (SRI, USA)
A. Colmerauer (GIA, France) L. Pereira (UNL, Portugal)
V. Dahl (Simon Fraser U., Canada) P. Sabatier (CNRS, France)
P. Deransart (INRIA, France) P. Saint-Dizier (IRISA, France)
M. Gross (LADL, France) C. Sedogbo (Bull, France)
M. McCord (IBM, USA)
Sponsored by: IRISA, Groupe BULL, INRIA
Deadlines:
April 15: Submission of papers in final form
June 10: Notification of acceptance to authors
July 10: Registration in the Workshop
Submission of papers:
Papers should contain the following items: abstract and title of
paper, author name, country, affiliation, mailing address and
phone (or telex) number, one program area and the following
signed statement: ``The paper will be presented at the Workshop
by one of the authors''.
Summaries should explain what is new or interesting abount
the work and what has been accomplished. Papers must report
recent and not yet published work.
Please send 7 copies of a 5 to 10 page single spaced manuscript,
including a 150 to 200 word abstract to:
-- Patrick Saint-Dizier
Local Organizing Committee
IRISA - Campus de Beaulieu
F-35042 Rennes CEDEX - France
Tel: (99)362000 Telex: 950473 F
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Date: Sat, 4 Feb 84 10:18 cst
From: Bruce Shriver <ShriverBD.usl@Rand-Relay>
Subject: call for papers announcement
Eighteenth Annual
HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON
SYSTEM SCIENCES
JANUARY 2-4, 1985 / HONOLULU, HAWAII
This is the eighteenth in a series of conferences devoted to advances in
information and system sciences. The conference will encompass developments
in theory or practice in the areas of COMPUTER HARDWARE and SOFTWARE, and
advanced computer systems applications in selected areas. Special emphasis
will be devoted to MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING, computer-based DECISION
SUPPORT SYSTEMS for upper-level managers in organizations, and KNOWLEDGE-BASED
SYSTEMS.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are invited in the preceeding and related areas and may be theoretical,
conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. The papers submitted will be
refereed and those selected for conference presentation will be printed in the
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS; therefore, papers submitted for presentation must not
have been previously presented or published. Authors of selected papers are
expected to attend the conference to present and discuss the papers with
attendees.
Relevant topics include:
Deadlines
HARDWARE * Abstracts may be submitted to track
* Distributed Processing chairpersons for guidance and indication
* Mini-Micro Systems of appropriate content by MAY 1, 1984.
* Interactive Systems (Abstract is required for Medical
* Personal Computing Information Processing Track.)
* Data Communication * Full papers must be mailed to appropriate
* Graphics track chairperson by JULY 6, 1984.
* User-Interface Technologies * Notification of Accepted papers will be
mailed to the author on or before
SOFTWARE SEPTEMBER 7, 1984.
* Software Design Tools & * Final papers in camera-ready form will
Techniques be due by OCTOBER 19, 1984.
* Specification Techniques
* Testing and Validation
* Performance Measurement & Instructions for Submitting Papers
Modeling 1. Submit three copies of the full paper,
* Formal Verification not to exceed 20 double-spaced pages,
* Management of Software including diagrams, directly to the
Development appropriate track chairperson listed
below, or if in doubt, to the conference
APPLICATIONS co-chairpersons.
* Medical Information 2. Each paper should have a title page
Processing Systems which includes the title of the paper,
* Computer-Based Decision full name of its author(s), affiliat-
Support Systems ation(s), complete address(es), and
* Management Information Systems telephone number(s).
* Data-Base Systems for 3. The first page should include the
Decision Support title and a 200-word abstract of the
* Knowledge-Based Systems paper.
SPONSORS
The Eighteenth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Science is
sponsored by the University of Hawaii and the University of Southwestern
Louisiana, in cooperation with the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society.
HARDWARE All Other Papers
Edmond L. Gallizzi Papers not clearly within one of the
HICSS-18 Track Chairperson aforementioned tracks should be mailed
Eckerd College to:
St. Petersberg, FL 33733 Ralph H. Sprague, Jr.
(813) 867-1166 HICSS-18 Conference Co-chairperson
College of Business Administration
SOFTWARE University of Hawaii
Bruce D. Shriver 2404 Maile Way, E-303
HICSS-18 Track Chairperson Honolulu, HI 96822
Computer Science Dept. (808)948-7430
U. of Southwestern Louisiana
P. O. Box 44330
Lafayette, LA 70504 Conference Co-Chairpersons
(318) 231-6284 RALPH H. SPRAGUE, JR.
BRUCE D. SHRIVER
DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM &
KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS Contributing Sponsor Coordinator
Joyce Elam RALPH R. GRAMS
HICSS-18 Track Chairperson College of Medicine
Dept. of General Business Department of Pathology
BEB 600 University of Florida
U. of Texas at Austin Box J-275
Austin, TX 78712 Gainesville, FL 32610
(512) 471-3322 (904) 392-4571
MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Terry M. Walker Concerning Conference Logistics
HICSS-18 Track Chairperson NEM B. LAU
Computer Science Dept. HICSS-18 Conference Coordinator
U. of Southwestern Louisiana Center for Executive Development
P. O. Box 44330 College of Business Administration
Lafayette, LA 70504 University of Hawaii
(318) 231-6284 2404 Maile Way, C-202
Honolulu, HI 96822
(808) 948-7396
Telex: RCA 8216 UHCED Cable: UNIHAW
The HICSS conference is a non-profit activity organized to provide a forum for
the interchange of ideas, techniques, and applications among practitioners of
the system sciences. It maintains objectivity to the systems sciences without
obligation to any commercial enterprise. All attendees and speakers are
expected to have their respective companies, organizations or universities
bear the costs of their expenses and registration fees.
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