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AIList Digest Volume 5 Issue 096
AIList Digest Monday, 6 Apr 1987 Volume 5 : Issue 96
Today's Topics:
Code Source - BBS for Micro AI and Geotechnical Applications,
Queries - Fuzzy Logic Implementation & OPS5 Examples &
Knowledge Representation Languages,
Comments - Demons and Censorship,
Application - Police Computer Detects Suspects
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Date: 1 Apr 87 23:38:22 GMT
From: nbires!isis!csm9a!japplega@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Joe Applegate)
Subject: New AI BBS for Micro AI Applications
The Colorado School of Mines Consortium for AI Research is sponsoring a
public BBS for AI and geotechnical discussions and public domain software.
This forum features areas for AI and conventional language development as
well as the geologic and geophysical disciplines. Currently 6 meg. of
PC based public domain applications are on line (most with source).
You can reach this forum at (303) 273-3989 300/1200/2400 baud 8-N-1 24 hrs.
Supports XMODEM, TELINK, and YMODEM transfer protocols.
Joe Applegate - Colorado School of Mines Computing Center
{seismo, hplabs}!hao!isis!csm9a!japplega
*** UNIX is a philosophy, not an operating system! ***
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Date: Thu, 2 Apr 87 14:06:08 PST
From: jain%newton.Berkeley.EDU@berkeley.edu (Pramod Jain)
Subject: Information on Fuzzy Logic Implementation wanted
We are interested in information on research and development
issues in implementation of fuzzy logic, computer architecture
based on fuzzy logic, hardware issues in fuzzy control, the fuzzy
chip and the like.
Any leads, pointers, references. will be greatly appreciated.
Reply to jain@newton, or call 415-642-8255.
Pramod Jain.
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Date: Wed, 1 Apr 87 23:08:00 WET
From: John Fitch (Bath Univ.) <fitch@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK>
Subject: OPS5 Examples
Does anyone have any example s of OPS5 programs? I have the Monkeys and
Bananas, and also the Manhattan mapper. What I want is examples so we can test
alternative matching algorithms. Any help or pointers would be appreciated
==John Fitch
University of Bath
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Date: Thu, 2 Apr 87 16:46:57 EST
From: weltyc@csv.rpi.edu (Christopher A. Welty)
Subject: Knowledge Representation Languages
Pardons if this has been done recently, I've been off ailist for
the past month (doctors orders :-). I'm working on some KR tools -
specifically, designing a new representation language - and I am
currently discussing with colleagues and students in the project the
issues involved. We are looking at various existing KR languages and
their merits/faults, but only I and one other person in the project have
any real experience with any of these (SRL, KRL, CRL, FRL ...).
I thought it would be interesting (and hopefully enlightening
for me) to get some input from the net here. I'd like to discuss what
other people who are actually using/have used KR systems (like Knowledge
Craft, KEE, etc.), think of these systems.
It seems to start an interesting discussion (I thought the
conciousness stuff was interesting) you have to make a bold statement
that you know people will disagree with and get riled - or you have to
be Marvin Minsky and just post a simple message, so maybe I'm going
about this the wrong way...but I'll give the soft approach a shot first.
-Chris Welty, RPI
weltyc@csv.rpi.edu
[I have forwarded a copy of this query to the NL-KR@ROCHESTER.ARPA
list, and would expect the main discussion to occur there. -- KIL]
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Date: Fri, 3 Apr 87 18:29 PST
From: Tom Garvey <GARVEY@SRI-STRIPE.ARPA>
Subject: Demons and censorship
One of the first places I saw "demons" used in the manner that
they now exist (as "daemons," a sexier, more classical sounding spelling
and a "subordinate deity" into the bargain) was in Carl Hewitt's Planner
system/language (actually, I don't know whether there ever was a real
implementation of Planner, but Winograd & Sussman (and al, too, I
suspect) implemented a version in Lisp called Microplanner). Anyway,
demons (as in the Maxwell's Demon sense) were the little processes with
associated patterns that watched the "data base," and when an assertion
was made, any demon with a pattern that matched the assertion would be
activated to do something interesting. These were also known as
"antecedent theorems," but that isn't nearly as catchy, and most people
referred to them as "demons." All this took place in the early '70s,
and I suspect their use predated the "daemon" processes that today screw
up our mail, hardcopies, and network access on a wide variety of
machines.
By the way, I feel that it is an incredible expression of
arrogance to assume that we can ever produce a machine intelligence, and
I continue to be astounded that you allow messages dealing with that
topic. From now on, I would like to request that you filter these
messages from the list; if you feel that this approach is too draconian
or possibly controversial, perhaps you could just insist that anyone
writing a note dealing with intelligence in any form so indicate in the
header, and the rest of us (who are, of course, better and more socially
conscious than the rest of you) can just skip over them.
This note has nothing to do with intelligence in any form.
And, of course, "Everything you know is wrong!"
Cheers,
Tom
[I have faith that only half of what I know is wrong. I'll
let you know when I find out which half. -- KIL]
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Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1987 16:27 CST
From: Leff (Southern Methodist University)
<E1AR0002%SMUVM1.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu>
Subject: Police Computer Detects Suspects
>From the Daily Campus, Thursday, April 2, 1987,
Original Source: Associated Press
Grand Prairie, Texas - A Computer used by police to
detect likeley locations for crime pinpointed the
likely time and location for a burglar enabling the
police to stake out the area and make the arrest. The
computer predicted the time to an accuracy of four
hours and the place to within a few blocks.
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