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AIList Digest Volume 4 Issue 114
AIList Digest Monday, 5 May 1986 Volume 4 : Issue 114
Today's Topics:
Queries - Stella & Expert Systems for PCs & Boltzman Machine,
AI Tools - Neural Networks & The Connection Machine & String Reduction,
Linguistics - Italo Calvino AI Project
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Date: Fri, 2 May 86 11:12 EST
From: "Steven H. Gutfreund" <GUTFREUND%umass-cs.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA>
Subject: Stella
Does anyone have any information on Stella (personal or journal articles)?
I understand it is a program for the MacIntosh done at Dartmouth in the
spirit of Rocky Boots.
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Date: 2 May 86 13:07 PDT
From: Stern.pasa@Xerox.COM
Subject: Expert Systems for PCs
In answer to a recent query for "expert systems on PCs" someone supplied
a list of software. It seemed to me all the entries were for AI tools,
and none of them were expert systems. Is this what was desired?
Josh
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Date: 1 May 86 19:44:52 GMT
From: ihnp4!houxm!mtuxo!orsay@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (j.ratsaby)
Subject: Boltzman Machine
I am interested to know who did/does research about neural networks
specifically those that are based on stochastic theory.
I would like to the status of these researches.
thanks in advance
joel Ratsaby
AT&T I.S.L
Middletown N.J
(201)957-2649
:wq
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Date: 1 May 86 18:26:26 GMT
From: ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxv!sr@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (S Radtke)
Subject: Re: neural networks
In article <837@mhuxt.UUCP> js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) writes:
>A recent issue of 'Science' had an article on 'neural networks', which,
>apparently consist of ...
etc.
To set the facts straight.
The name of the mag is Science 86 which is published by AAAS and is not
to be confused with the journal Science, also published by AAAS.
>They said incredibly little about the actual details of
>how each node operates, unfortunately.
Probably because its intended audience is rather broad - intelligent
people with no particular expertise or training assumed.
Kind of a Readers Digest for Yuppies with a high-tech inclinations.
> So how about it? Has anybody else heard of these things? Is this
>really a way of going about AI in a way which *may* be similar to what
>brains do? Just exactly what algorithms are the nodes implementing, and
>how do you provide input and get output from them? Does anyone know
>where I could get more information about them?
You might try turning to the back of the magazine, to a section listing
articles for further, deeper reading.
Or you can look in today's paper (if you happen to read the NY Times) and
check the article on page D2 which announces the commercial availability
of the Connection Machine from a start-up concern in Cambridge.
Probably next week there will be ads on CBS during the evening news.
Steve Radtke
bellcore!u1100a!sr
Bell Communications Research
Piscataway, NJ
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Date: 3 May 86 01:29:02 GMT
From: dali.berkeley.edu!regier@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (Terrance P. Regier)
Subject: Re: neural networks
In article <175@sdics.UUCP> cottrell@sdics.UUCP (Gary Cottrell) writes:
>
>Hopfield is the one who did the traveling salesman problem. I'm not sure
>where he is, tho.
>
J.J Hopfield is at the: Division of Chemistry and Biology
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125
-- Terry
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Date: 1 May 86 15:54:19 GMT
From: ucdavis!lll-lcc!lll-crg!caip!seismo!harvard!cmcl2!lanl!crs@ucbvax
.berkeley.edu (Charlie Sorsby)
Subject: Re: neural networks
> A recent issue of 'Science' had an article on 'neural networks', which,
> .
> .
> .
In a related vein, the 7 April, 1986 issue of Electronic Engineering Times
(an electronics engineering newspaper) featured the following articles in
the Computer Engineering section:
Hopfield's Nerve Nets Realize Biocomputing
Neural Chips Emulate Brain Functions
Brain-Emulating Circuits Need `Sleep' and `Dreams'
Several other issues of this weekly paper have, over the past month or so,
carried one or more related articles.
--
The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer,
the government or your favorite deity.
Charlie Sorsby
...!{cmcl2,ihnp4,...}!lanl!crs
crs@lanl.arpa
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Date: 2 May 86 15:48:10 GMT
From: ucdavis!lll-lcc!lll-crg!seismo!rochester!goddard@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
(Nigel Goddard)
Subject: Re: neural networks
Departments working in this area include, amongst others:
C.S. University of Rochester
Carnegie Mellon
Cog Sci University of California, San Diego
?? University of Massachussets, Amherst
There is a technical report "Rochester Connectionist Papers" available
here which probably references a lot of other work as well.
Nigel Goddard
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Date: 4 May 86 04:16:08 GMT
From: ucdavis!lll-lcc!lll-crg!topaz!harvard!bu-cs!jam@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
(Jonathan A. Marshall)
Subject: Re: neural networks
Stephen Grossberg has been publishing on neural networks for 20 years.
He pays special attention to designing adaptive neural networks that
are self-organizing and mathematically stable. Some good recent
references are:
(Category Learning):----------
G.A. Carpenter and S. Grossberg, "A Massively Parallel Architecture for
a Self-Organizing Neural Patttern Recognition Machine." Computer
Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing. In Press.
G.A. Carpenter and S. Grossberg, "Neural Dynamics of Category Learning
and Recognition: Structural Invariants, Reinforcement, and Evoked
Potentials." In M.L. Commons, S.M. Kosslyn, and R.J. Herrnstein (Eds),
Pattern Recognition in Animals, People, and Machines. Hillsdale, NJ:
Erlbaum, 1986.
(Learning):-------------------
S. Grossberg, "How Does a Brain Build a Cognitive Code?" Psychological
Review, 1980 (87), p.1-51.
S. Grossberg, Studies of Mind and Brain: Neural Principles of Learning,
Perception, Development, Cognition, and Motor Control. Boston:
Reidel Press, 1982.
S. Grossberg, "Adaptive Pattern Classification and Universal Recoding:
I. Parallel Development and Coding of Neural Feature Detectors."
Biological Cybernetics, 1976 (23), p.121-134.
S. Grossberg, The Adaptive Brain: I. Learning, Reinforcement, Motivation,
and Rhythm. Amsterdam: North Holland, 1986.
(Vision):---------------------
S. Grossberg, The Adaptive Brain: II. Vision, Speech, Language, and Motor
Control. Amsterdam: North Holland, 1986.
S. Grossberg and E. Mingolla, "Neural Dynamics of Perceptual Grouping:
Textures, Boundaries, and Emergent Segmentations." Perception &
Psychophysics, 1985 (38), p.141-171.
S. Grossberg and E. Mingolla, "Neural Dynamics of Form Perception:
Boundary Completion, Illusory Figures, and Neon Color Spreading."
Psychological Review, 1985 (92), 173-211.
(Motor Control):---------------
S. Grossberg and M. Kuperstein, Neural Dynamics of Adaptive Sensory-
Motor Control: Ballistic Eye Movements. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1985.
If anyone's interested, I can supply more references.
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Date: 1 May 86 14:40:02 GMT
From: ihnp4!think!craig@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (Craig Stanfill)
Subject: Re: connection machine articles
The Connection Machine has now been officially announced as a commercial
product. Requests for information relevant to AI should be directed to:
David Waltz
Knowledge Representation and Natural Language Group
Thinking Machines Corporation
245 First Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
Please use U.S. mail. When I get a chance, I will post some basic
specs for the machine on this list.
-Craig Stanfill
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Date: 2 May 86 14:10:52 GMT
From: decvax!wanginst!apollo!molson@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (Margaret Olson)
Subject: Re: String Reduction
>requiring as TRAC does that strings be specifically called with
>the "cl" operator. In other words, you could say *(macro,...) instead
>of #(cl,macro,...). Wegner leaves it as an exercise to the reader to
In the version of TRAC that I worked with in 1983, you could say
#(macro) and ##(macro). As I recall, these two cases were treated
exactly like #(cl,macro) and ##(cl,macro). This version had a considerably
larger set of primitives than those discussed in all the TRAC papers and
documentation that I ever saw.
String reduction has been used to solve real problems. A company called
Data Concepts used TRAC to write an applications generator. The applications
generator was used by insurance raters to write rating systems. Rating systems
are hard because insurance rating rules change all the time (like every day as
far as I could tell). Anyway, TRAC was used for a real product. I think that
Allstate is still using this stuff for some kinds of commercial policies.
TRAC trivia: It was developed and originally owned by Calvin Mooers,
and then sold to Data Concepts Inc. Data Concepts has since gone
bankrupt, so I believe that TRAC is now owned by some type of
bankruptcy court entity. It is (presumably) for sale.
Margaret Olson.
molson@apollo
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Date: 2 May 86 08:59:31 GMT
From: brahms!weemba@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (Matthew P. Wiener)
Subject: Re: Italo Calvino AI project
I've directed followups to net.books.
> I must apologize to Bandy for posting a genuine rumor to net.rumor, but
>this is a real rumor I found on net.followup:
>
>>I have it on good authority (although second-hand) that an entire
>>*novel* was generated by computer. It was the result of a research
>>project which aimed to "parameterize" an author's writing style. The
>>study concentrated primarily on one author, Italo Calvino, and I have
>>heard that the novel, "If on a winter's night a traveller", was actually
>>published and marketed with Calvino's blessing.
>[Jack Orenstein]
Now this is an interesting rumor. I suppose I should reread the book,
but I'll go on memory.
It's opening chapter struck me as one of the funniest things I have ever
read. But it then wore down rather tiresomely. I doubt if a computer
could have come up with the scheme of the book, the plot, or the opening
chapter. But as for the rest? The plotting was more stilted than usual
for Calvino--but I thought that was the point. The joke was dragged out
longer than he usually does. And it was his first novel in a decade.
Hmmm... Let's just say I'm very incredulous. Perhaps, more likely, the
*rumor* was generated with Calvino's blessing.
ucbvax!brahms!weemba Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720
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Date: Sat, 3 May 86 21:29 EDT
From: ART@AQUINAS.THINK.COM
Subject: Italo Calvino
>I have it on good authority (although second-hand) that an entire
>*novel* was generated by computer. It was the result of a research
>project which aimed to "parameterize" an author's writing style. The
>study concentrated primarily on one author, Italo Calvino, and I have
>heard that the novel, "If on a winter's night a traveller", was actually
>published and marketed with Calvino's blessing.
[Jack Orenstein]
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller has, as part of it's plot, the
story of two people trying to read a novel called If On A Winter's
Night a Traveller. Among their troubles is their inability to determine
the authorship of the book. At one point, they discover that the book
they are reading (or you are reading; fans of self-referentiality will
have a ball) may have been written by a machine. Maybe this rumor's
authority confused the novel with it's plot. On the other hand, maybe that
was the point....
Art Medlar
Thinking Machines Corp.
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