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AIList Digest Volume 5 Issue 197
AIList Digest Friday, 14 Aug 1987 Volume 5 : Issue 197
Today's Topics:
Queries - OPS5 Benchmarks & Scheme & Xerox 1186 &
AI Abstracts & Region Growing,
Literature - Dreyfus and Dreyfus Reviews & Sanskrit,
Tools - Macsyma Sources & XLISP 1.7 for MS-DOS & Neural Networks,
Msc. - Turing Plays
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Date: Thu, 6 Aug 87 10:52 EST
From: SCAROLA%cgi.com@RELAY.CS.NET
Subject: OPS5 benchmarks
I'm working on a new version of CRL-OPS which is the OPS5-like
component of Knowledge Craft. It's completely written in Common
Lisp but includes a full compiler and some other tricks which
produce a serious speedup over previous versions. Someone informed
me that there exists a standard set of OPS5 benchmarks developed
or collected by Columbia University and I'm interested in running
these. If anyone has these benchmarks or knows who I should contact
to get them please send me mail.
Thank you,
Dave Scarola
Carnegie Group Inc
<SCAROLA%cgi@csnet-relay.csnet>
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Date: 10 Aug 87 17:15:24 GMT
From: sundc!hadron!cos!duc@seismo.css.gov (Duc Kim Nguyen)
Subject: Scheme: where to get it ?
Hi,
I am looking for pointers to where to get SCHEME
interpreter/compiler (ala Abelson&Sussman) to run under
UNIX (BSD). Public-Domain distribution would be greatly
appreciated, (written in C or Common Lisp, even better!).
If there are multiple version, please include the pros-cons
of each.
thank you!
duc@COS.COM
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Date: 12 Aug 87 14:59:23 +1000 (Wed)
From: "ERIC Y.H. TSUI" <munnari!aragorn.oz!eric@uunet.UU.NET>
Subject: Xerox 1186
I would like to communicate with anyone who has used or is using
Xerox 1186 workstations running Interlisp-D and/or Xerox Quintus Prolog
environments.
CSNET address: eric@aragorn.oz
UUCP address: seismo!munnari!aragorn.oz!eric
decvax!mulga!aragorn.oz!eric
ARPA address: munnari!aragorn.oz!eric@seismo.arpa
- - ---
Many thanks.
Eric Tsui eric@aragorn.oz
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Date: 13 Aug 87 04:29:05 GMT
From: ihnp4!chinet!nucsrl!berggeo@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George Berg)
Subject: AI Abstracts info wanted
Earlier this Summer I received some material in the (paper) mail
about something called ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ABSTRACTS.
Unfortunately, the material ended-up in the wrong pile and I threw
it away. Is there anyone out there who kept the material and who can
give me the pertinent information about it (e.g. how much, whom to
write, etc.)?
*PLEASE*, to avoid cluttering this group, respond to me by e-mail
and I will post a summary of the information I receive. Thanks.
George Berg
berggeo@alpha.eecs.nwu.edu EE/CS Dept.
or berggeo@nucsrl.UUCP Northwestern University
or {gargoyle,ihnp4,chinet}!nucsrl!berggeo Evanston, Il 60208
[The addresses are: Iris Taylor, Journals Department, Basil Blackwell,
108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX41JF England; or Journals Department,
Basil Blackwell Inc., Box 1320, Murray Hill Station, NY 10156.
The special Vol. 1 rate (including a free issue) for individuals
in N. America or Japan is $50; for institutions $104. -- KIL]
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Date: Tue, 11 Aug 87 17:23:54 EDT
From: Ali Minai <amres%uvaee.ee.virginia.edu@RELAY.CS.NET>
Subject: Request for Region Growing
A friend of mine is looking for REGION GROWING programs for computer
vision applications. Are there any standard 3- or 2- dimensional
region growing programs around? The references can be e-mailed to
me at
am@uvaee.ee.virginia.EDU
Thanks,
Ali Minai,
EE, University of Virginia
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Date: 10 Aug 87 14:23:09 GMT
From: prlb2!ronse@seismo.CSS.GOV (Christian Ronse)
Subject: Re: Reviews of Dreyfus & Dreyfus?
In article <870805-062024-4511@Xerox>, WAnderson.wbst@XEROX.COM writes:
> I am looking for reviews of the Dreyfus & Dreyfus book "Mind Over
> Machines." Any and all references appreciated. Thanks,
>
> Bill Anderson
Review by Timothy D. Koschmann in the V33#1 (Sep.87) issue of ``Artificial
Intelligence'', pp. 135--140. The exact title of the book is: ``Mind over
Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the
Computer''.
-----
Time is Mona Lisa
--
Christian Ronse maldoror@prlb2.UUCP
{uunet|philabs|mcvax|...}!prlb2!{maldoror|ronse}
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Date: Mon, 10 Aug 87 12:56:26 EDT
From: Bruce Nevin <bnevin@cch.bbn.com>
Subject: Review of D&D in Nature
A review of Mind Over Machine appeared in Nature 324.13 (Nov 1986):182-3.
On the same page is a cartoon: a man looking glumly at the CRT in front
of his chair, a woman standing at his side says `It figures. If there's
artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.'
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Date: Thu, 6 Aug 87 09:40:54 EDT
From: "William J. Rapaport" <rapaport@cs.buffalo.edu>
Subject: Sanskrit
The paper on Sanskrit, cited by Briggs in his AI Magazine article, by
Srihari, Rapaport, and Kumar, ``On Knowledge Representation Using
Semantic Networks and Sanskrit,'' Technical Report 87-03 (Buffalo: SUNY
Buffalo Dept. of Computer Science, February 1987) is available by writing
to Ms. Lynda Spahr, Dept. of Computer Science, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260,
USA, or sending email to spahr@buffalo.csnet or spahr@sunybcs.bitnet.
The full papers were to appear in a book. I haven't heard about its status.
William J. Rapaport
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Computer Science, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260
(716) 636-3193, 3180
uucp: ..!{ames,boulder,decvax,rutgers}!sunybcs!rapaport
csnet: rapaport@buffalo.csnet
internet: rapaport@cs.buffalo.edu
[if that fails, try: rapaport%cs.buffalo.edu@cs.relay.net]
bitnet: rapaport@sunybcs.bitnet
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Date: Mon, 10 Aug 87 16:47 EDT
From: Richard Petti <petti@ALLEGHENY.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
Subject: Re: Macsyma Sources
From: jbn@glacier.stanford.edu (John B. Nagle)
Subject: Re: Macsyma Sources
A competing package is MuMath, from
Soft Warehouse
3615 Harding Av
Honolulu Hawaii 96816
808-734-5801
This is a symbolic math package written in a quaint but charming dialect
of LISP, for which an interpreter is provided. There are versions for the
Apple II and IBM PC, and recently a modern version for the PC has been re-
leased. I've used the older version on some messy vector calculus problems
in my solid modelling work, and found it quite useful in dealing with the
grunt work of algebra and calculus. The heuristics aren't very powerful,
but the algorithms for the standard solution methods all seem to work.
Microsoft resells this package, when they remember it is in their product
line, but the developers are in Hawaii and one may as well deal directly
with them. Sometimes one of the developers answers the phone.
John Nagle
MACSYMA is being ported to IBM AT class machines, i.e. 80286 with DOS.
It will have the same, or nearly the same functionality as the
standard commercial-grade MACSYMA's available from the Computer Aided
Mathematics Group at Symbolics. If you are interested in beta-tesing
it (starting in October) please call us at 1-800-MACSYMA (622-7962).
With regard to the capabilities you mention above, MACSYMA has a
vector calculus package and two tensor calculus packages.
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Date: Tue, 11 Aug 87 22:06:54 MDT
From: t05rrs%mpx1@LANL.GOV (Dick Silbar)
Subject: Where to get XLISP 1.7 for MS-DOS
In V5 #196 Gabriel asks about XLISP 1.4. Version 1.7 is available
on a diskette (#79) from the Pioneer Valley PC User's Group for
$6 (plus $5 membership fee). Address is P.O. Box H, North
Amherst, MA 01059.
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Date: 12 Aug 1987 11:27-EDT
From: Alessandro.Forin@speech2.cs.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: XLISP
You should be able to get a copy of XLISP from the author:
David M. Betz
114 Davenport Ave.
Manchester, NH 03103
(603) 625-4691
It is nicely small and easily portable to all sorts of machines, but it
does not perform very well. I tested it running on a Sun3/160 on
Gabriel's benchmarks, and it was roughly 300 (three-hundreds) times
slower than compiled CMU-CommonLisp running on an IBM-RT.
If it is serious work, have you looked at Kyoto CL ?
sandro-
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Date: 13 Aug 87 14:34:36 GMT
From: phri!uccba!finegan@nyu.arpa (Mike Finegan)
Subject: Re: Neural Networks
In article <269@ndmath.UUCP>, milo@ndmath.UUCP (Greg Corson) writes:
> I am looking for some information and/or demo programs on Neural Networks
> and how to simulate them on a computer. Any demo programs would be greatly
> appreciated even if they don't do much.
Dr. Dobbs Journal had an article (cover article) on neural networks a
couple months back. There was source in there for a simulator, written
in 'C'. I coded it in (ow - 800 some lines), and it works, except that
some interpretation , and addition of code is necesarry to get what you
succesfully trained it on to recognize anything. It merely required
adapting a pre-existing sub-routine, and forced me to understand the
program. It is public domain, so I guess I can send it to you, but note:
I have added routines (albeit in the same style, etc.). The source can
also be gotten on floppy from the magazine (~$20 ?).
>
> Also, I could use a few good introductory references on Nerual networks,
> how they can be simulated and how to use them for pattern matching type
> operations.
ACASSP (sic), an IEEE Signal Processing magazine, had a fairly comprehensive
introductio to the subject this year. I don't subscribe to it, so I don't
remember if it was April, or later; I just copied the article.
Mike Finegan
Univ. of Cinti.
...hal!uccba!ucece1!finegan
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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 87 11:10:34 EDT
From: Peter Beck (LCWSL) <pbeck@ARDEC.ARPA>
Subject: turing plays
RE: TURING PLAYS
The NJ section of the NY Times of Aug 2, 1987 on page 8 had an article on two
plays based on Turing's life. They are: "A MOST SECRET WAR" by Kevin Paterson
which was performed from july 30 - aug 9 at the Philip J Levin Theater in New
Brunswick as part of the Rutgers Summerfest and 'BREAKING THE CODE" by Hugh
Whitmore scheduled to open on Broadway Nov 15.
I have not read nor seen the plays.
peter beck <pbeck@ardec.arpa>
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