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AIList Digest Volume 5 Issue 196
AIList Digest Monday, 10 Aug 1987 Volume 5 : Issue 196
Today's Topics:
Queries - XLISP & Kyoto Common Lisp on Unix System V &
Commercial Planning/Scheduling Software? & CL OPS5 &
Connectionist Simulator & Neural Networks,
AI Tools - Neural Network Simulators &
Low-level Feature Extraction and Interframe Matching &
Uncertainty and Belief & ISI Grapher Update
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Date: Fri, 07 Aug 87 12:15:04 GMT
From: Gabriel <GMCDEH88@IRLEARN>
Subject: XLISP
Does anyone out there know where I can get the latest version
of XLISP (public domain), at least version 1.4.
Thanking you in advance,
Gabriel.
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Date: Sun, 9 Aug 87 13:49:32 EDT
From: brant@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Brant Cheikes)
Subject: Query: Kyoto Common Lisp on Unix System V
Has anyone successfully ported Kyoto Common Lisp (KCL) to a Unix
System V environment? Anyone trying? If so, I'd really like to
hear about it!
Brant Cheikes
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Computer and Information Science
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Date: Sun, 9 Aug 87 13:58:36 edt
From: nancy@grasp.cis.upenn.edu (Nancy Orlando)
Subject: Commercial Planning/scheduling software?
Can anyone give me any information about commercial planning/scheduling
software that is available? I have heard names like Artemis, Plan Plus,
PLANMAN by Sterling Wentwork, and material from Palladian, but would
like specific names, addresses, and/or comments from people who've
used any and what they think of them. Have there been any good magazine
articles about this type of software, particularly any comparisons
of different aspects of performance among them?
I will be happy to summarize responses to AIList if there is sufficient
interest.
Nancy Sliwa
nancy@grasp.cis.upenn.edu or nesliwa%telemail@orion.arpa
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Date: Sat, 8 Aug 87 10:54:29 EST
From: munnari!fgp.uq.oz!thor@uunet.UU.NET (A-P.Lian)
Subject: Re: request for cl ops5
Re: request for cl ops5
Me too please!!!!
Thanks
Andrew Lian
Dr A-P. Lian
Director FGPCAL Unit (French/German/Philosophy Computer-Aided Learning Unit)
U of Queensland, St Lucia, Q. 4067, Australia
ACSnet: apl@fgp.uq.oz
UUCP: ...!seismo!munnari!fgp.uq.oz!apl
ARPA: apl%fgp.uq.oz@seismo
CSNET: apl@fgp.uq.oz
JANET: fgp.uq.oz!apl@ukc
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Date: Fri, 7 Aug 87 08:37 EDT
From: Andre Marquis <Bodick@cis.upenn.edu>
Subject: Query: Connectionist Simulator
I would like to experiment with connectionist inference mechanisms. Is
there a publically avaialble connectionist simulator? I have a Sun-3/160
with C and Common Lisp, among other things. I'm willing to port code from
other machines.
Also, if you have any good references on inference using connectionist
networks, please send them. Shastri's PhD thesis is the only thorough
treatment I've seen so far.
Thank you.
Andre Marquis
bodick@cis.upenn.edu
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Date: 7 Aug 87 20:13:06 GMT
From: ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!ndmath!milo@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Greg Corson)
Subject: Neural Networks
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.
I've heard that someone is selling a Neural Network simulator for the Mac
but I haven't heard much about it. If anyone has details on what the
program can do I would be interested to hear about it.
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.
Thanks for the help...
Greg Corson
19141 Summers Drive
South Bend, IN 46637
(219) 277-5306 (weekdays till 6 central)
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Date: 8 Aug 87 15:14:59 GMT
From: unc!hch@mcnc.org (Hong John Hsieh)
Subject: Re: Neural Networks
In the 1st International Conference on Neural Network held in June,
there were a number of software/hardware products in exhibition.
Below is a short summary. Among the Macintoch-based systems,
Neuronics, inc. gave their contact phone number as 617-367-9254.
_______________________________________________________________________________
organization product host functions
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(1) TRW Mark III coprocessor to vax hardware nn
(2) U. Colorodo MacTivation Mac simulator nn
(3) Nestor inc. Nestor PC-AT handwritten char rec.
(4) AIWARE inc. AINET PC process control
(5) Gen. Dynamics - - situation assessment,
weapon control
(6) HNC ANZA ANZA + PC-AT PC-AT/coprocssor
(7) MEIKO Computer net of transputers TSP, Image restoration
surface
(8) Neural Systems AWARENESS PC nn simulation
(9) Neuraltech inc. PLATO/ PC to Cray knowledge processor
ARISTOTLE
(10) Neuronics MacBrain Mac nn simulation
(11) SAIC,AI Tech. GINNI Symbolics 3670/CM,.. nn development tool
(12) SAIC,Tech. Res. Sigma-1 PC-AT nn simulation
(13) TI - Explorer+Odyssey nn simulation
(14) VERAC - BAMS simulation Assoc. Mem.
_______________________________________________________________________________
Cheng-Hong Hsieh (hch@unc.UUCP)
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Date: 8 Aug 87 17:54:18 GMT
From: ramones.rutgers.edu!pratt@RUTGERS.EDU (Lorien Y. Pratt)
Subject: Re: Neural Networks
At the Neural Networks tutorial at AAAI in Seattle in July, Terry
Sejnowski said that the third volume of Parallel Distributed Processing
will be released this coming fall. I have confirmed this with the
publisher. Sejnowski also said that the book will come with a disk
containing some sort of a neural network simulator which will run under
UNIX.
--Lorien Pratt
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Date: Thu, 6 Aug 87 11:37 EDT
From: Roland Zito-Wolf <RJZ@JASPER.PALLADIAN.COM>
Reply-to: Roland Zito-Wolf <RJZ%JASPER@LIVE-OAK.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Low-level feature extraction and interframe matching
software wanted
Date: 1 Aug 87 19:18:48 GMT
From: jbn@glacier.stanford.edu (John B. Nagle)
Does software exist for following moving objects from frame to frame
in video images?
...
Software, algorithms, hardware, or indications of research activity
would be useful.
John Nagle
Center for Design Research, Stanford
There was some interesting work done on building and comparing structural
descriptions by J. Connell at MIT. the reference is "Learning Shape
Descriptions: Generating and Generalizing Models of Visual Objects"
AI-TR-853, Sept 85.
The report also discusses methods for pre-processing the visual inputs.
-rjz
Roland Zito-Wolf
Palladian Software
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Date: 5 Aug 87 02:15:39 GMT
From: ptsfa!nonvon!apn@ames.arpa (apn)
Subject: Re: Low-level feature extraction and interframe matching
software wanted
In article <17150@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU
(John B. Nagle) writes:
>
> Does software exist for following moving objects from frame to frame
>in video images? I'm looking for something that works by finding low-level
>features such as edges and corners and matches them from one frame to the
>
There is a company in Santa Rosa, CA that does something like this
They are called MAC or motion analysis corporation.
Alex P Novickis
--
UUCP: {ihnp4,ames,qantel,sun,amdahl,lll-crg,pyramid}!ptsfa!nonvon!apn
{* Only those who attempt the absurd ... will achieve the impossible *}
{* I think... I think it's in my basement... Let me go upstairs and check. *}
{* -escher *}
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Date: Wed, 6 Aug 87 21:51:05 EDT
From: PJURKAT@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU
Subject: STEVENS SEMINAR IN UNCERTAINTY AND BELIEF - SPRING 1987
This message is to whoever sent me a list of references related to the subject
of the seminar - I got the list from the POSTMASTER account on our VAX - node
SITVXB - from one of our systems programmers - by the time I got it, the source
of the list was no longer evident.
This note is to express my thanks to whoever it was that was so generous with
their time and effort to make the list - it contained about 80 references many
of which were new to me. The list came in a format that was similar to the
Leff bibliographies that appear on the net occassionally - I am totally un-
familiar with how they are generated, where they come from, and what the various
first letters (%A, %T, etc.) mean, although I can guess - If anyoune would
send me a tutorial on what the Leff lists are all about I would appreciate it
- if it is not convenient to do so through the network, my address is
M. Peter Jurkat
Department of Management
Stevens Insitute of Technology
Castle Point Station
Hoboken, NJ 07030
201-420-5371
pjurkat@sitvxa.bitnet
thanks again - peter J.
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Date: Fri, 07 Aug 87 19:27:34 PDT
From: Gabriel Robins <gabriel@vaxa.isi.edu>
Subject: The ISI Grapher: an Update
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AI/Graphics tool announcement:
"The ISI Grapher: a Portable Tool for Displaying Graphs Pictorially"
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Greetings,
Due to the considerable interest drawn by the ISI Grapher so far, I am
posting this abstract summarizing its function and current status, as well
as some new information regarding same. This posting is also for the benefit
of those who missed the first announcement or who are new to the AIList.
We are now able to satisfy European and other foreign requests, so
even if you are not a U.S.-based researcher or company, you may now have
the sources.
I will be giving an invited talk on the ISI Grapher in Symboliikka '87,
Helsinki, Finland, August 17, 1987. The paper describing this effort is
now available (for free) to all: it is entitled: "The ISI Grapher: a Portable
Tool for Displaying Graphs Pictorially."
The CommonLisp sources are also available (for free to all entities who
receive DARPA funds, and for a small fee to all others). It currently runs
on Symbolics versions 6, 7, and 7.1, and on TI Explorers versions 2 & 3.
Efforts are currently underway to port it to other machines.
If you would like the paper and/or the sources, please forward your postal
address to "gabriel@vaxa.isi.edu" or to:
Gabriel Robins
Intelligent Systems Division
Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way
Marina Del Rey, Ca 90292-6695
U.S.A.
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The ISI Grapher
August, 1987
Gabriel Robins
Intelligent Systems Division
Information Sciences Institute
The ISI Grapher is a set of functions that convert an arbitrary graph
structure (or relation) into an equivalent pictorial representation and
displays the resulting diagram. Nodes and edges in the graph become boxes and
lines on the workstation screen, and the user may then interact with the
Grapher in various ways via the mouse and the keyboard.
The fundamental motivation which gave birth to the ISI Grapher is the
observation that graphs are very basic and common structures, and the belief
that the ability to quickly display, manipulate, and browse through graphs may
greatly enhance the productivity of a researcher, both quantitatively and
qualitatively. This seems especially true in knowledge representation and
natural language research.
The ISI Grapher is both powerful and versatile, allowing an
application-builder to easily build other tools on top of it. The ISI NIKL
Browser is an example of one such tool. The salient features of the ISI
Grapher are its portability, speed, versatility, and extensibility. Several
additional applications were already built on top of the ISI Grapher,
providing the ability to graph lists, flavors, packages, divisors, functions,
and Common-Loops classes.
Several basic Grapher operations may be user-controlled via the specification
of alternate functions for performing these tasks. These operations include
the drawing of nodes and edges, the selection of fonts, the determination of
print-names, pretty-printing, and highlighting operations. Standard
definitions are already provided for these operations and are used by default
if the application-builder does not override them by specifying his own
custom-tailored functions for performing the same tasks.
The ISI Grapher now spans about 100 pages of CommonLisp code. The 120-page
ISI Grapher manual is available; this manual describes the general ideas, the
interface, the application-builder's back-end, the algorithms, the
implementation, and the data structures. A shorter paper is also available,
and includes hardcopy samples of the screen during execution. The ISI Grapher
presently runs on both Symbolics (versions 6, 7, & 7.1) and TI Explorer
workstations (versions 2 & 3); ports to other machines are underway.
If you are interested in more information, the sources themselves, or just
the paper/manual, please feel free to forward your postal address to
"gabriel@vaxa.isi.edu" or write to "Gabriel Robins, Information Sciences
Institute, 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina Del Rey, Ca 90292-6695 U.S.A."
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