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AIList Digest Volume 5 Issue 200
AIList Digest Thursday, 20 Aug 1987 Volume 5 : Issue 200
Today's Topics:
Queries - AI References & Frame Language in C & Frames System &
Qualitative Analysis vs Qualitative Simulation &
Multi-Objective Search,
References - GLISP,
Humor - TerminalTalk
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Date: 19 Aug 87 21:38:00 GMT
From: ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!tenny@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: AI references
I'm building an AI reference database in refer(1) format. Currently
the database has 1,000+ entries. I'm interested in receiving contributions
in refer(1) format from netlanders. For your troubles, I will mail each
contributor the database after it has stabilized and the duplicates have
been removed.
Larry Tenny
tenny@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
tenny@iubacs (BITNET)
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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 87 11:26:59 SST
From: joel loo <ISSLPL%NUSVM.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu>
Subject: Query - Frame Language in C
I wonder anybody anywhere had built any Frame Language in C with any
approach? Either by using a preprocessor, macros, subroutine calls, or by
calling other language routines. I would like to obtain one if possible or
get in touch with some who had developed one to know the cost of building
one. I would be glad to summarize responses for the benefit of all.
Thanks in advance.
ISSLPL@NUSVM.BITNET
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Date: 19 Aug 87 00:55:13 GMT
From: plx!titn!jordan@sun.com (Jordan Bortz)
Subject: WANTED - FRAMES SYSTEM
Does anyone have a frames based expert-system that runs under LISP
or Smalltalk? Public domain, of course, and running under Franz
would be nice.
Jordan
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(415) 268-8948 UUCP: (decvax|ucbvax|ihnp4)!decwrl!sun!plx!titn!jordan
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Date: 18 Aug 87 20:49:14 GMT
From: ihnp4!alberta!calgary!arcsun!roy@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Roy
Masrani)
Subject: qualitative analysis vs qualitative simulation
Hi. I am wondering if anyone has a good idea of the difference
between qualitative analysis and qualitative simulation. I have
not done any extensive search on this but it seems that these
terms are typically used interchangably.
Perhaps, QA refers to a goal directed process to find
possible reasons (or explanations) for some phenomena,
whereas QS is a data driven process used to observe the
consequences of making some changes to the system?
Thanks
--
Roy Masrani, Alberta Research Council
3rd Floor, 6815 8 Street N.E.
Calgary, Alberta CANADA T2E 7H7
(403) 297-2676
e-mail: roy%arcsun.uucp%ubc.csnet@relay.cs.net
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Date: 16 Aug 87 18:46:00 GMT
From: uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!osiris!chandra@a.cs.uiuc.edu
Subject: query:multi-objective search??
QUERY: Are there any search algorithms (like A*) that work with
multiple objectives?
I would appreciate references to papers, books etc.
Thanks in Advance,
Navin Chandra
( dchandra@athena.mit.edu )
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Date: 17 Aug 87 06:57:11 GMT
From: mcvax!unido!ecrcvax!crcge1!benoit@seismo.css.gov (Christophe
Benoit)
Subject: Re: Looking for GLISP
In article <260@nysernic> weltyc@nic.nyser.net (Christopher A. Welty) writes:
>
> I am looking for some references to G-LISP, something written
>by a guy named Novac (sp?) at Stanford. I don't actually need G-LISP,
>but I would like to see the papers or any other references. Any help
>would be much appreciated. With enough interest I'll post to the
>list..
>
>Christopher Welty - Asst. Director, RPI CS Labs
>weltyc@cs.rpi.edu ...!seismo!rpics!weltyc
You can read the following references:
G.S Novak: "Knowledge-based programming using abstract data types".
Proc. of AAAI'83, August 1983.
"GLISP: a Lisp-based programming system with data abstraction".
A.I Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3, August 1983.
Christophe Benoit.
benoit@crcge1.cge.fr
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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 87 12:29:04 PDT
From: Eduard Hovy <hovy@vaxa.isi.edu>
Subject: terminaltalk (i.e., [| <-> |] )
Who introduced the faces for our bboard language
:-) and :-( and :-|
and how many others were there? (I remember first seeing them
about two or three years ago.)
In what order did these marks develop? As far as I know,
when you wanted to emphasize something, I mean REALLY
EMPHASIZE it, you capitalized...
which, pretty soon, was replaced by
the *much* *more* elegant stars...
Why?
Is emphasis enough? How about that little request for
confirmation, to make sure the audience is with you? Or
just to show a hint of reservation? But perhaps we never
use that noninteractively. (--?)
Do we need the tension-building pause and resolution? How about:
so she slowly opened the door, and inside, she saw...
>>>> Meese <<<<! >>>> Eating cheesecake <<<<!
Does the order of development of these marks mean anything?
What will terminaltalk look like in fifty years' time? Colored
words? How narrow IS (but not *is* (--?)) the bandwidth of the
terminal? Has anyone looked at these questions?
Hmm...
E
[I'm sure many of these typographic conventions have arisen
from the print world. I like to use >>this<< notation for
italics, which seems less obtrusive and easier to pair-match
than ***s. (It was my own invention, although I've had an
editor ask me if I meant "Spanish quotes.") Another emphatic
form you didn't mention was made famous by H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N.
Words can also be s t r e t c h e d on a terminal. Uppercase
is generally taken to mean SHOUTING, although consistent uppercase
often signifies that the sender is on an Army base. University
students often use @i(Scribe) or {\it TeX} notation, which permits
distinguishing italics from boldface but is neither graphic
(i.e., "vivid") nor sufficiently universal.
What does the future hold? Why animated 3-D color graphics, of
course. (Animated text is already a hackers' specialty. Arpanetters
can try the "finger laws@sri.com" command for a simple example.)
I'm looking forward to typing in Oriental brush strokes. See the
last CACM for an interesting article about word processing in Arabic.
I don't recall seeing smiley faces in print, although Reader's
Digest had a note about a -) tongue-in-cheek symbol about twenty
years ago. (Another typographic innovation was the interrobang,
used when ?!??!!! seems appropriate -- but far less >>precise<<,
to my way of thinking.) I once saw a book about making birthday
cakes, faces, and other graphics using red and black typewriter
symbols (including many overstruck characters) -- I still have a
bookplate that I constucted from the illustrated borders, flourishes,
and composite-character alphabets.
Someone at Stanford tried to pin down the origin of the smiley
faces, without success. I'll forward three of the more interesting
messages. -- KIL]
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Date: Sat 22 Jun 85 18:04:53-PDT
From: Richard Treitel <TREITEL@SU-SUSHI.ARPA>
Subject: icons, fallen and risen
[Forwarded from the Stanford bboard.]
No, it was not I who proposed the icons. I heard about them in a message from
CMU, which in turn ascribed the original suggestion to someone else whose name
I completely forget. Let me resurrect a few which did not seem to get wide
use:
$ academic job available
$$ industrial job
$$$ job at a startup
[= housing available in Arizona
<= housing available in Minnesota
% bad bicycle accident
O+ feminist message
// downhill skiing
and so on.
- Richard {:-)
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Date: 14 Jun 86 1401 PDT
From: Tovar <TVR%CCRMA@SU-AI.ARPA>
Subject: Icons
[Forwarded from the Stanford bboard.]
(Courtesy of Symbolics, Palo Alto. -- TVR)
From: Marc Le Brun <MLB@RUSSIAN.SPA.Symbolics.COM>
From: Steve Strassmann <straz@MEDIA-LAB.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, 31 August 1983 01:41-EDT
From: Mark Plotnick <MP at MIT-XX>
To: info-cobol at MIT-MC
Re: the last whole smiley face catalog :-)
Awhile back, you may remember some discussion about "smiley face
codes". Well, here are some new ones, culled from netnews
(done@teklabs, rew@hao, ksf@security, msg@houxl, and futrelle@uiucdcs).
[:|] submitter is a robot (or other appropriate AI project)
:>) submitter has a big nose
:<| submitter attends an Ivy League school
:%)% submitter has acne
=:-) submitter is a hosehead
:-(*) submitter is getting sick of most recent netnews articles and
is about to vomit
:-)8 submitter is well dressed
8:-) submitter is a little girl
:-)-{8 submitter is a big girl
%-) submitter is cross-eyed
#-) submitter partied all night
:-* submitter just ate a sour pickle
-:-) submitter sports a mohawk and admires Mr. T
:-'| submitter has a cold
:-)' submitter tends to drool
':-) submitter accidentally shaved off one of his eyebrows this morning
8:] submitter is a gorilla
0-) submitter wearing scuba mask
P-) person submitting is getting fresh
|-) submitter is falling asleep
.-) submitter has one eye
:=) submitter has two noses
:-D submitter talks too much
:-o submitter is shocked
/ \
| RIP |
|| submitter has recently died
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Date: Sat, 22 Jun 85 08:24:58 pdt
From: Vaughan Pratt <pratt@Navajo>
Subject: Why do icons fall?
[Forwarded from the Stanford bboard.]
Why do icons need to be "fallen?" Consider:
/|\ highway: messages about routes, rides, car repairs, etc.
/v|^\ /^|v\ which side to drive on: right denotes a message agreeing
with someone or taking a conformist position, left denotes
disagreement or nonconformism
--o-O-o-- plane: aviation-related messages (cheap tickets, etc.)
</\> claw: a vindictive ~=
=|= dragonfly: message about insects
\|/ plant: botany, vegetation, etc.
_\|/_ explosion: nonnuclear warfare (messages about 108 mm
recoilless slings and arrows)
|=|=| fence: message about boundaries, also for fence-post errors
db scissors up: a wanted cut, e.g. request to cut off a topic of
discussion
qp scissors down: an unwanted cut - funding cut, etc.
^^^ mountains: hiking/camping/skiing messages
(^v^) a user of nonfallen icons, cf. #8^)
On the one hand the existence of such icons calls into question the
appropriateness of the term "fallen." On the other hand why have
almost all of them to date been of the fallen persuasion?
-v
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