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AIList Digest Volume 2 Issue 083
AIList Digest Tuesday, 3 Jul 1984 Volume 2 : Issue 83
Today's Topics:
AI Tools - LISP in AZTEC C & Interlisp under UNIX,
Games - Chess 4.5,
AI Literature - AI Text Recommendations Wanted,
AI in Process Control - References Wanted,
Commonsense Reasoning - Importance of Context,
Graphics - Three-Point Curve,
AI and Business - Second Summary & Industry Newsletter & Survey,
Expert Systems - New Products,
Machine Translation - Industry News,
Natural Language - UNIX Interface
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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 84 17:08:17 EDT
From: William K. Cadwallender (LCWSL) <wkc@Ardc.ARPA>
Subject: LISP IN AZTEC C
I was at a seminar in applied AI recently, and someone there told me
about a LISP written in Aztec C under CP/M (... something like Z-LISP?) which
was allegedly in the public domain and available possibly from SIMTEL. Does
anyone out there know anything about this LISP, or any LISP that I could run
in any manner on a 6502 system?
William Cadwallender
(wkc@ARDC)
P.S. I am interested in the C SOURCE code for this thing.
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Date: 28 Jun 84 1:07:33-PDT (Thu)
From: hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!akgua!whuxle!spuxll!abnjh!u1100a!pyuxn!py
uxww!gamma!ulysses!burl!idi!kiessig @ Ucb-Vax.arpa
Subject: Interlisp under UNIX?
Article-I.D.: idi.207
Can someone tell me if there is a version if Interlisp
that runs under UNIX? If so, where/how does one go about
getting a copy? Thanks,
Rick Kiessig
{decvax, ucbvax}!sun!idi!kiessig
{akgua, allegra, amd70, burl, cbosgd, dual, ihnp4}!idi!kiessig
Phone: 408-996-2399
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Date: Sat 30 Jun 84 13:42:30-PDT
From: System-Assoc Dir <SRISW@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA>
Subject: Chess 4.5
I would like to inquire of the list if there is anyone who would like
to participate in converting a Pascal clone of the Northwestern University
Chess 4.5 program into TOPS-20 assembly language. The Pascal clone is
partially written and unrelated to the bug-filled version published in Byte
a few years ago. This version is based on a technical article by the
authors, Slate and Atkin. Replies to g.mclure@su-score.
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Date: 3 Jul 84 22:10:20-EDT (Tue)
From: ihnp4!mgnetp!burl!idi!kiessig @ Ucb-Vax.arpa
Subject: Wanted: AI texts & references
Article-I.D.: idi.205
I'm looking for some good AI references and/or texts.
Pointers to books that are considered a "must" are particularly
wanted, but even ones that you consider "good reading" would
be helpful, too. Thanks,
Rick Kiessig
{decvax, ucbvax}!sun!idi!kiessig
{akgua, allegra, amd70, burl, cbosgd, dual, ihnp4}!idi!kiessig
Phone: 408-996-2399
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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 84 18:50 EDT
From: JPAnderson@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA
Subject: AI in process control
I'm looking for information on AI applications in the process control
industry. Any information on what is being done or what should be done
would be greatly appreciated.
Jay Anderson JPAnderson -at mit-multics
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Date: 28 Jun 84 8:41:49-PDT (Thu)
From: hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!akgua!whuxle!spuxll!abnjh!u1100a!pyuxn!rlr
@ Ucb-Vax.arpa
Subject: Re: a third of ten
Article-I.D.: pyuxn.794
> Please. Everyone knows that 2*2=5 for sufficiently large values of 2.
Now hold on. You're misquoting one of the great axioms of science,
Skillman's Axiom.
____
V 3 = 7
... for very large values of 3.
Back in 1973 at Cornell was the first I had heard of this "axiom". Has
anyone actually traced its roots back to its real origins?
[Skillman is now an astronomer somewhere in the northwest.]
WHAT IS YOUR NAME? Rich Rosen
WHAT IS YOUR NET ADDRESS? pyuxn!rlr
WHAT IS THE CAPITAL OF ASSYRIA? I don't know that ... ARGHHHHHHHH!
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Date: 9 Jun 84 10:55:00-PDT (Sat)
From: hplabs!hp-pcd!hpfcla!hpfclq!robert @ Ucb-Vax.arpa
Subject: Re: Commonsense Reasoning?
Article-I.D.: hpfclq.68500004
I think a human or computer presented this problem may end up
asking for clarification provided more context (not supplied)
were not available.
For the problem given I would suspect perhaps
not an inconsistancy but rather that
I was being asked to setup a mapping from one "world" to another.
A similar problem is:
If 32 is 0 and 212 is 100 what is 65?
This is of course a fahrenheit to celsius conversion problem.
Read out of context it sure sounds strange. This kind of
mapping problem is very common and might be done correctly
by a computer without blinking a led. :-)
-Robert (animal) Heckendorn
..!hplabs!hpfcla!robert
[Readers might note that the recently posed problem of fitting the
"best" curve through three points was similarly underconstrained.
I have suppressed several responses of the form "The problem as
stated has infinitely many solutions; please clarify what you want."
Other responses have been a survey of applicable techniques and
a couple of replies suggesting particular techniques that are usually
appropriate. -- KIL]
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Date: 27 Jun 84 10:57:00-PDT (Wed)
From: hplabs!tektronix!orca!warner @ Ucb-Vax.arpa
Subject: three point curve
Article-I.D.: orca.915
I solved a similar problem once. My solution was without reguard to
"best fit" as it didn't pass through the "middle" point. Simple
mathematically, it was done with a recursive procedure that accepted
three points. It might be applied here if some method was devised for
extrapolating two more points from the original three points.
Brief description of the method:
Calculate the mid points of the lines between the "end" points and
the "middle" point, i.e. between 1,2 and 2,3. You now have five points.
(2).
(4).
(5). (3).
(1).
Pass the original procedure 1,5,4 then 5,4,3 .. repeat.
When the the distance between the points is "small enough" ..
connect them with a line.
If the original problem required a point through 1,3,X then 2 would
have been extrapolated, somehow, from 1,3,X.
The curves made this way look nice and smooth on a macro scale but
look wiggly on a micro scale.
Ken Warner
..tektronix!tekecs!warner
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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 84 19:11:02 pdt
From: syming%B.CC@Berkeley
Subject: Second Summary of AI for Business
I have compiled a second summary of AI For Business which contains the
info I have received since the time I posted the first summary about one
month ago. If interested, please send me a mail. It is rather long, so I
don't want to waste the resource here.
-- syming hwang
[The length is not excessive for AIList, but Syming is also interested
in compiling a list of people with particular interest in this subject.
I can help anyone who has difficulty constructing a net address for
him. -- KIL]
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Date: Mon 2 Jul 84 11:04:18-PDT
From: Ken Laws <Laws@SRI-AI.ARPA>
Subject: Applied Artificial Intelligence Reporter
I have received a mailing from the ICS (Intelligent Computer Systems)
Research Institute of the University of Miami. They are hawking a
the Applied Artificial Intelligence Reporter, a monthly newsletter that
expanded to 12 pages in February (Vol. 1, No. 5). The excerpts shown
in the ad look like fairly typical trade press material, with everything
having been passed through an editor or professional reporter to make
sure it's readable. The publishers are promising a broad mix of
news, editorials, tutorials, reviews, etc. The newsletter is available
for $49 ($39 for AAAI members) per year from the ICS Research Inst.,
U. of Miami, P.O. Box 1308-EP, Fort Lee, NJ 07024.
-- Ken Laws
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Date: Mon 2 Jul 84 21:44:04-PDT
From: Ken Laws <Laws@SRI-AI.ARPA>
Subject: AI and Industry
The July issue of IEEE Spectrum mentions (p. 69) a new two-volume
report, "Artificial Intelligence--A New Tool for Industry and Business,"
from Technical Insights, Inc., P.O. Box 1304, Fort Lee, N.J. 07024,
(201) 944-6204. Volume I is said to contain explanations of
expert systems, natural-language processing, vision, touch sensing,
cognitive modeling, computer hardware, VLSI design, and applications,
as well as a market analysis and forecast for each technology. Volume
II presents "hundreds of annotated programs currently under study at
universities," as well as lists of available research reports and
technical publications for each university program. The two-volume
report costs $485 plus 6% in NJ or $27 overseas postage and handling.
-- Ken Laws
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Date: Mon 2 Jul 84 13:18:38-PDT
From: Ken Laws <Laws@SRI-AI.ARPA>
Subject: Expert System Tools
Teknowledge (of Palo Alto) has released two software packages for
expert system builders. M.1, at $12,500, is for those who want to
explore expert systems concepts on the IBM PC. The price includes
a four-day training course for one person. S.1 is for professional
knowledge engineers developing large-scale knowledge systems. It
sells for $50,000, which includes a two-week training course for two
people, a sample system with detailed case history, and access to
Teknowledge's applications engineering services. S.1 currently
runs on Xerox 1100 and 1108 workstations and is being ported to
VAX 11/750 and 11/780 under VMS.
-- Ken Laws
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Date: Mon 2 Jul 84 21:57:21-PDT
From: Ken Laws <Laws@SRI-AI.ARPA>
Subject: Machine Translation
CNN News carried a story over the weekend about Bravice Int., which
claims to have the first commercial Japanese-to-English translation
system. They claim about 80% accuracy for technical text, and charge
$100,000 for the program. An English-to-Japanese translator is in
the works.
-- Ken Laws
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Date: Mon 2 Jul 84 22:06:28-PDT
From: Ken Laws <Laws@SRI-AI.ARPA>
Subject: Natural-Language Interface
We had a query recently about natural-language interfaces to UNIX.
Anyone interested in this subject should read "Talking to UNIX in
English: An Overview of UC" in the June issue of Communications of
the ACM, pp. 574-593. The article is by Robert Wilensky, Yigal Arens,
and David Chin. It has considerably more detail than the articles
I mentioned previously.
-- Ken Laws
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