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AIList Digest Volume 5 Issue 203
AIList Digest Monday, 24 Aug 1987 Volume 5 : Issue 203
Today's Topics:
Queries - Applied AI Reporter & CL Planner & Rule-Based Software &
Language-Independent Text on AI,
Comments - TerminalTalk,
Review - Spang Robinson Report on AI, Vol. 3, No. 8
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Date: 22 Aug 1987 06:56:55 PDT
From: Laurence I. Press <SWG.LPRESS@C.ISI.EDU>
Subject: Applied AI Reporter??
I have heard of a publication called the Applied AI Reporter, from the
University of Miami. Can someone give me an address or phone number for
more information on the publication?
Thanks,
Larry
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 87 16:56:29 EDT
From: Kenneth Basye <kjb%cs.brown.edu@RELAY.CS.NET>
Subject: Request for CL planner
I'm looking for a simple Nonlin style planner written in Common Lisp. Source
is essential; documentation would be wonderful, but is not neccesary.
Thanks very much,
Ken Basye
UUCP {ihnp4|allegra|decvax}!brunix!kjb
ARPA kjb%cs.brown.edu@relay.cs.net
CSNET kjb@cs.brown.edu
U.S. MAIL Ken Basye
Box 1910
Dept. of Computer Science
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
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Date: 22 Aug 87 23:30:52 GMT
From: RAMESH-T@OSU-20
Subject: rule-based software
From: journeyman <ramesh-t@OSU-20>
I am interested in obtaining general comments from any of you
who is knowledgeable about rule based systems software, currently available
in the market. We are looking for software that satisfies most or all of the
following requirements :
1. Compatible with commonly available PC's (IBM, Mac)
2. User friendly (not a must if there are other good features).
3. Includes good display facilities, or allows display utilities to be
programmed in.
Here's a list of available software that we've heard of but don't know
much about :
*ADVISOR
*GURU
*RULEMASTER
*1st Class
*WIZDOM XS
*WIZDOM PX
*SAGE
*ESP ADVISOR
*EXPEROPS5
*EXPERTEDGE
*EXSYS
*INSIGHT 1.2
*INSIGHT 2/INSIGHT 2+
*MACKIT
*MICROEXPERT
*PERSONAL CONSULTANT
*TOPS1
*WISDOM XS
*XPER
*XSYS
Any information would be welcome (general, availability, prices, applicability,
will you give it to us free, etc).
ramesh
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Date: 21 Aug 87 09:10:32 GMT
From: mcvax!ukc!its63b!dcl-cs!strath-cs!murray@seismo.css.gov
(Murray Wood)
Subject: A good language-independent text on AI ?
I am preparing a set of 24 introductory lectures on AI aimed at presenting
the main concepts, techniques and applications with little regard for
theory. The students are in their second year having only programmed in
Pascal. Although I intend to spend 4/5 lectures discussing the relative
merits of Prolog and Lisp there is no time to actually program in either of
these languages. The course is therefore intended to be programming
language independent. I would like to recommend a textbook to the students
and be able to follow it quite closely in the lectures - can anybody
suggest a good book, ideally costing less than 20 pounds (30 dollars) ?
My current intention is to use the book by Shirai and Tsujii 'Artificial
Intelligence: Concepts, Techniques and Applications'. Does anybody have any
experience and / or views on this book for such a course ?
Thank You
Murray
--
ARPA: murray%cs.strath.ac.uk@ucl-cs.arpa, murray@cs.strath.ac.uk
UUCP: murray@strath-cs.uucp, ...!seismo!mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!murray
JANET: murray@uk.ac.strath.cs
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 87 13:02:22 CDT
From: "Michael T. Gately" <gately%resbld%ti-csl.csnet@RELAY.CS.NET>
Subject: Terminal Talk
With referenc to TERMINAL TALK, another effective
device for highlighting a portion of a message
is _to_surround_it_with_underscores_. I use this
when typing book references without a text formatter.
Another interesting notation is the order of the
characters in a serial interrobang. I feel that there
is a definate difference between ?! and !?. The first
would be appropriate when describing (with disbelief)
a question someone asked. The second is used when
questioning a statement someone made.
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Date: 21 Aug 87 17:12:25 GMT
From: petsd!hjuxa!uucp@rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: terminaltalk
I can shed no light on most of Hovy's questions, but I think I can
claim priority on the use of underscores as delimiters:
He's reading _Moby Dick._ He says it's _very_ boring.
An earlier format uses underscores throughout; e.g.,
I need a copy of _The_Art_of_Computer_Programming_, Volume 4.
Personally I prefer *asterisks* for emphasis and _underscores_ for
other applications of italics.
By the way, recently my three-year-old son told me excitedly that there
was a kitty on my home terminal. Actually it was a C-R (carriage-return)
glyph, with the C slightly higher than the R and running into it like a
cat's tail. Can anybody think of a use for such "kitties"?
--
Col. G. L. Sicherman
...!ihnp4!odyssey!gls
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1987 21:21 CST
From: Leff (Southern Methodist University)
<E1AR0002%SMUVM1.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu>
Subject: Summary of Spang Robinson Report on Artificial Intelligence
(bm695)
Summary of Spang Robinson Report on Artificial Intelligence
August 1987, Volume 3, No. 8
"AAAI-87: Underwhelming" is the front page leader.
This title is expounded upon by the statment, "There was little
research, or product drama to speak of; no blockbuster announcements or
revolutionary changes. ... Almost uniformly, products presented
were reiterations and refinements."
Teknowledge revealed that the time between initial contact and final
sale went from six to twelve months.
There is also a section on suggestions for future AAAI conferences.
Four hundred people attended the neural network tutorial.
(?(?(?(?(?(?(?(?(?(?(?(?(?(?(?(?(?(?(?(?(?(?(?(?(?(?(?(?(?(?
Carnegie Group: A Company in Transition
Carnegie Group will announce the appointment of a new president, Dennis
Yablonsky. He used to be president and Chief Operating Officer
at Cincom. Carnegie group has a relationship with CMU to serve as
the technology transfer outlet for applied computing research.
Carnegie Group will now be selling Knowledge Craft in a series of
modules.
The company is still unprofitable, it is declaring a positive cash flow.
Some of its's projects include
a) system to automate the design of digital circuits
b) a system for assembly path programming
c) a shop planning and scheduling system for Boeing
d) a forger shop scheduler for Ellwood City Forge Co.
e) an autombobile troubleshooting diagnostic system that will be
deployed across Ford Motor's system car dealership network.
f) a telemarketing system
g) a system for a financial insitutution to analyze English language
news stories, financial statements and bank telexes.
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SHORTS (including announcements at the AAAI-87)
TI now has a $1900 utility to convert a Personal Consultant Plus
expert ssytem to one that is embedable in C and runable under UNIX.
Keystone is an expert system can port applications built on Intellicorp's
2.1 to a 286 for delivery.
Expertelligence's Prototyper puts an object or Smalltalk like structure
around Lisp.
Knowledge Garden exhibited a tool that uses hypertext and expert systems.
Knowledge maker is a an $99 inductive-rule generating system that geneerates
rules for KnowledgePro, Insight 2+, M.1 and Micro Expert.
If/then is a $70.00 expert system that runs on top of Lotus. (A product
review for this is also in this Spang Robinson Report.)
Intellicorp has announced a ten percent reduction in staffing and declared
that it will report a substantial loss for the quarter and fiscal year
ending June 30, 1987.
Teknowledge will be selling several products under a Copernicus architecture
including a development Facility, deelivery facility, database integration
system, COBOL integration system and TeKSolutions Applicatin Pakcks.
Artificial Intelligence Corporaiton has formed a consortium of corporations
to develop an expert system shell for IBM mainframes.
APEX has a Computed Text program that generates end user reports from
Common LISP products.
Lucid Common Lisp will be ported to HP's 9000 Series 300 and 800 computers.
Aion and Arthur Anderson will jointly deelop a high-performance version of
Aion's application expecution system. MSA Advanced Manufacturing Inc.
has signed an agreement allowing it to use Aion products to develop
manufacturing expert systems.
Primefax of San Antionio, TX will be developing repair support software.
Nihon Digital Equipment Corporaiton will be distributing Artificial
Intelligence Technologies' AIT Lisp TOOLKIT.
Sun and Schlumberger will be jointly developing AI software for the SUNS.
Sun introduced a Symbolic Programming Environment for its Sun 3 and Sun 4
workstations that will provide the powers of a dedicated LISP system while
remaining a general purpose work station.
Inference Corporationa nd Lockheed-California have introduced a system
to audit medical claims.
Symbolics has introduced a software package that enable susers to deliver
applications packages on its work stations.
Gensym Corporation unveiled a real-time expert system for process control
applications. Prices start at $36,000.
BBN Advanced Computers has a LISP for its Butterfly parallel processing
system costing $12,000.
Quantun InKNOWvations Corporation is sellling a knowledge-base environment
for 386 based machines and includes a relational database.
Bookman Consulting introduced a system to assess the technical knowledge
and proficiency of computer programmers.
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New Bindings
Teknowledge named Peter Weber new president and executive officer.
Michael P. Coleman, formerly vice president of Marketing and sales and
McDonnell Douglas Computer Sales was named IntelliCorp vice president
of marketing and sales.
Spencer Leyton was named vice president of business development for
Symantec Corporation of Cupertino, CA. Was vice president of
sales and business development at Borland International.
Randy J. Raynor is manager of development for Inference Corporation
(was vice president of product development at UCCEL)
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