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AIList Digest Volume 2 Issue 032
AIList Digest Friday, 16 Mar 1984 Volume 2 : Issue 32
Today's Topics:
AI Books - Request for Sources & New Series Announcement,
Fuzzy Set Theory - Request for References,
Bindings - Request for Tong Address,
Humor - Man-LISP Interface,
AI Tools - Review of IQLISP for IBM PC,
Linguistics - Nonlogical "And",
Waveform Analysis - ECG Interpretation Liability,
Alert - High Technology Articles,
Seminars - Knowledge-Based Documentation Systems &
Sorting Networks & Expert Systems for Fault Diagnosis
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Date: 14 Mar 84 0118 EST
From: Dave.Touretzky@CMU-CS-A
Subject: who sells AI books?
I am looking for places that sell AI books, other than publishers. Do
you know of any book distributors that specialize in AI titles? How about
book clubs featuring AI, cog. sci., robotics, and the like? Send names
and addresses to Touretzky@CMUA. I'll make the listing available online
if there's any demand for it.
[The best source is probably Synapse Books. Does anyone have the address?
The Library of Computer and Information Science is a book club that often
offers AI books, and sometimes offers vision and popularized cognitive science
or robotics books. Right now you can get a great deal on the Handbook of AI.
See Scientific American or the latest IEEE Computer for details, or do a
current member a favor by letting him sign you up. -- KIL]
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Date: Wed 14 Mar 84 16:41:17-PST
From: DKANERVA@SRI-AI.ARPA
Subject: New Book Series
[Forwarded from the CSLI newsletter by Laws@SRI-AI.]
MANUSCRIPTS SOLICITED FOR NEW MIT PRESS/BRADFORD BOOKS SERIES
MIT Press/Bradford Books has announced a new series entitled
"Computational Models of Cognition and Perception" edited by Jerome A.
Feldman, Patrick J. Hayes, and David E. Rumelhart.
The series will include state-of-the-art reference works and
monographs, as well as upper level texts, on computational models in
such subject domains as knowledge representation, natural language
understanding, problem solving, learning and generalization, motor
control, speech perception and production, and all areas of vision.
The series will span the full range of computational models in
cognition and perceptual research and teaching, including detailed
neural models, models based on symbol-manipulation languages, and mod-
els employing techniques of formal logic. Especially welcome are works
treating experimentally testable computational models of specific
cognitive and perceptual functions; basic computational questions,
particularly relationships between different classes of models; and
representational questions linking computation and semantics to par-
ticular problem domains.
Manuscript proposals should be submitted to one the three
editors, or to Henry Bradford Stanton, Publisher, Bradford Books, The
MIT Press, 28 Carleton Street Cambridge, MA 02142 (617-253-5627).
However, we welcome your discussing ideas for books and software
programs and packages with any of the members of the Editorial
Advisory Board who may be your close colleagues:
John Anderson Drew McDermott
Horace Barlow Robert Moore
Jon Barwise Allen Newell
Emilio Bizzi Raymond Perrault
John Seely Brown Roger Schank
Daniel Dennett Candy Sidner
Geoffrey Hinton Shimon Ullman
Stephen Kosslyn David Waltz
Jay McClelland Robert Wilensky
Yorick Wilks
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Date: 14 Mar 84 14:08:57 PST (Wednesday)
From: Conde.PA@PARC-MAXC.ARPA
Subject: AIList : Request for Fuzzy Set references
I would like to know if anyone has a references to good introductory
books on the theory of fuzzy sets, as well as fuzzy databases.
Please reply to me or to the digest.
Thanks,
Daniel Conde
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Date: 12 Mar 84 19:25:20-PST (Mon)
From: pur-ee!uiucdcs!marcel @ Ucb-Vax
Subject: Re: Tong Colloquium on Knowledge-Directed Search
Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.6150
Could someone tell me where the speaker [Christopher Tong] is to be
contacted? I'd like to follow up on his work.
Marcel Schoppers
U of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
[The talk, on knowledge-aided circuit design, was given at Rutgers.
Does anyone have Tong's net or mail address? -- KIL]
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Date: Tue 13 Mar 84 13:19:16-CST
From: Clive Dawson <CC.Clive@UTEXAS-20.ARPA>
Subject: Wait till he discovers the parenthesis key!
[Forwarded from the UTEXAS-20 bboard by Laws@SRI-AI.]
[FYAmusement: The following item was found on SAIL's Bboard, contributed by
Ron Newman. --CBD]
The following letter to the editor was published in Softalk of March,
1984:
I have come into possession recently of a program called Microlisp. I
understand that it has been around for some time, so maybe someone out
there knows something about it. I cannot get it to do anything but
print numbers I type in or print the word "nil". How do I make it do
anything else? Can you give me an example of something useful that I
might be able to do with it?
[...]
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Date: 9 Mar 84 8:51:58-PST (Fri)
From: decvax!genrad!wjh12!vaxine!chb @ Ucb-Vax
Subject: Review of IQLISP for IBM PC
Article-I.D.: vaxine.211
A review of IQLisp (by Integral Quality, 1983).
Compiled by Jeff Shrager
CMU Psychology
7/27/83
[Charlie has forwarded Jeff Schrager's review of IQLISP for the IBM PC.
This appeared in AIList in early August, so I will not reprint it here.
Readers who want the text can FTP file <AILIST>IQLISP.TXT on SRI-AI or
contact AIList-Request@SRI-AI. -- KIL]
Charlie Berg
Automatix, Inc.
...allegra!linus!vaxine!chb
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Date: Tue 13 Mar 84 20:12:39-PST
From: Richard Treitel <TREITEL@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA>
Subject: Use of "and"
My father, who is a law professor, was able to come up with an instance where a
contract contained the word "and" in a certain place, and the court interpreted
that "and" to mean what we computermen would have meant by "or". Or maybe it
was the other way around; I forget the details.
- Richard
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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 84 09:26:36 EST
From: John McLean <mclean@NRL-CSS>
Subject: nonlogical "and"
I think that the first treatment of the fact that "and" in English is
not the purely logical "and" of predicate calculus appeared in Philosophy
literature. You might want to take a look at Strawson's PHILOSOPHICAL LOGIC
for classical arguments that the "and" of natural language is distinct from the
logician's "and" and Grice's "William James' Lectures" for a very influential
rebuttal in which he argues that the use of "and" in English can be modeled
by logical conjunction if we take into account "conversational implicature",
a concept Grice develops in the lectures.
By the way, one of my favorite examples of nonlogical conjunction which you
do not mention is the statement made to someone about to eat a mushroom
growing in the ground "You will not eat that and live." This statement
is almost always correct from the truth-functional view of conjunction
even if the mushroom is harmless, since few people when issued the warning
will indulge their appetite.
Good luck,
John
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Date: 13 Mar 84 9:27:44-PST (Tue)
From: harpo!ulysses!unc!mcnc!ecsvax!jwb @ Ucb-Vax
Subject: More computer ECG, Cardiologist
Article-I.D.: ecsvax.2153
With respect to the responsibility of a cardiologist to overread every
ECG, this is (or should be) uniformly done. The problem addressed by
the dial up services is that in the middle of the night, in a small
town hospital, the cardiologist's reading may not come until the next
day. Many communities do not have a cardiologist at all. The
physician obtaining the ECG (who in an emergency room is typically NOT
a cardiologist) has an obligation to carefully examine the ECG
obtained. There are two schools of thought with regard to sending
computer ECG information to a physician who may not be expert in
interpreting an ECG. One is that any information is better than none,
and therefore the nonexpert physician should get the information. The
other is that if there is a screw up, and the local physician cannot
be trusted to recognize this, the computer analysis can do significant
harm and should be witheld (The local physician will ALWAYS have his
own interpretation.) Both approaches have their merit. Our local
approach is to NOT send machine interpretations back to the Emergency
Room until a person with some expertise in reading ECG's has looked at
the tracing and at the computer generated interpretation. In some
cases, this approach negates the major advantage of having the
computer in the first place.
[...]
Jack Buchanan
Cardiology and Biomedical Engineering
UNC-Chapel Hill
decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!jwb {Usenet}
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Date: Thu 15 Mar 84 22:46:08-CST
From: Werner Uhrig <CMP.WERNER@UTEXAS-20.ARPA>
Subject: High Technology, Feb 84 has AI-relevant articles
Summary of HIGH TECHNOLOGY, Feb 84
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FEATURES
BIOCHIPS: CAN MOLECULES COMPUTE? The groundwork is being laid for
21st-century computers based on carbon rather than silicon. Molecular
Switches. Soliton Switches and Logic. Bulk Molecular Devices. Analog
Biochips. "Intelligent" Switches. Robot Vision. Fabrication. Protein
Engineering. Development Strategy. written by Jonathan Tucker
UNCOVERING HIDDEN FLAWS. Nondestructive tests spot trouble before it
happens. Computerized tomography. 6 techniques dominate.
ENGLISH: THE NEWEST COMPUTER LANGUAGE. Natural language systems.
Computational Linguistics. commercial applications. semantic grammars.
Syntax, Semantics, vs. Pragmatics. Situation Semantics.
BIOPOLYMERS CHALLENGE PETROCHEMICALS. Oil-recovery agents, drug
purification media, and plastics are promising applications.
OPINION
Where defense can be cut
LETTERS
Data Security; Helping kids learn; Retraining
UPDATE
Graphics Analysis. converting a 3-Dmodel into finite element model
Russians develop electromagnetic casting; licensed by Alcoa
DNA sequence DB. (longer than 50 mucleotides) GenBank has 2700+ entries
comprising over 2.1 million bases
Optical memory units boost computer storage. ST with 4 gigabytes on a
single 14 inch removable platter. 3 Mbyte/sec transfer rate
costing $130,000. Shugart offers 1Gbyte on 12" platter with
5Mbyte/sec transfer costing $6,000 in quantities of 250
In-mold metal plating of plastics cuts costs.
Brain chemicals delivered on demand (an experimental method)
INSIGHTS
Factory Automation Survival Kit
MILITARY/AEROSPACE
Mosaic arrays boost infrared surveillance
CONSUMER
Multi-decoders may revive AM stereo
BUSINESS
Optical memories eye computer market
MICROCOMPUTER
Micro publicity game
BOOK REVIEW
Luciano Caglioti: The 2 Faces of Chemistry. [ on chemical risks ]
INVESTMENTS
Big Potential for Custom Chip Suppliers
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Date: Tue 13 Mar 84 10:23:55-EST
From: Renata J. Sorkin <RENATA@MIT-XX.ARPA>
Subject: Knowledge-Based Documentation Systems
[Forwarded from the MIT bboard by SASW@MIT-MC.]
"KNOWLEDGE-BASED COMMUNICATION PROCESSES
IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING"
Matthias Schneider
Project Inform
University of Stuttgart
Designing programs to solve ill-structured problems as well as
trying to understand the purpose of a program and the designer's
intentions involves a great deal of communication between programmers
and users. Program documentation systems must support these
communication processes by supplying a common base of knowledge and
structuring the exchange of information.
DATE: Wednesday, March 14
TIME: 12:00 noon
PLACE: NE43-453
Host: Dr. A. diSessa
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Date: 15 March 1984 16:58-EST
From: Kenneth Byrd Story <STORY @ MIT-MC>
Subject: Sorting Networks
[Forward from the MIT bboard by Laws@SRI-AI.]
DATE: Tuesday, March 20, 1984
TIME: 3:45pm Refreshments
4:00pm Lecture
PLACE: NE43-512a
TITLE: "Sorting Networks"
SPEAKER: Professor Michael Paterson, University of Warwick
Last year, Ajtai, Komlos and Szemeredi published details of a depth O(log n)
comparator network for sorting, thus answering a longstanding open problem.
Their construction is difficult to analyse and the bounds they proved result in
networks of astronomical size. A considerable simplification is presented
which readily yields constructions of more moderate size.
HOST: Professor Tom Leighton
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Date: 15 Mar 84 13:53:27 EST
From: Smadar <KEDAR-CABELLI@RUTGERS.ARPA>
Subject: III Seminar on Expert Systems for Fault Diagnosis...
[Forwarded from the Rutgers bboard by Laws@SRI-AI.]
I I I SEMINAR
Title: An Expert System for Fault Monitoring and Diagnosis
Speaker: Kathy Abbott
Date: Tuesday, March 27, 1984, 1:30-2:30 PM
Location: Hill Center, Seventh floor lounge
Kathy Abbott, a Ph.D. student in our department, will give an informal talk
describing her research work at NASA. Here is her abstract:
The Flight Management Branch at NASA/Langley Research Center in
Hampton,Va. is exploring the use of AI concepts to aid flight crews in
managing aircraft systems. Under this research effort, an expert system
is being developed to perform on-board fault monitoring and diagnosis.
Current expert systems technology is insufficient for this application,
because the flight domain consists of dynamic physical systems and the
system must respond in real time. A frame-based expert system has been
designed that includes a frame associated with each subsystem and
sensor on the aircraft. Among other information, the frames include
mechanism models of the associated systems that can be used by the
diagnostic expert for hypothesis verification and predictive purposes.
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