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AIList Digest Volume 5 Issue 253
AIList Digest Friday, 30 Oct 1987 Volume 5 : Issue 253
Today's Topics:
Queries - Symbolic and Algebraic Computation Text &
Prediction-Producing Algorithms & Mental Models,
Bibliographies - Literature Classification,
AI Tools - LISP on the AMIGA & NIL (the LISP) & Character Recognition,
Correction - Spang Robinson Report on Supercomputing, V1 N2
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Date: 26 Oct 1987 13:54:48 EST
From: Walter.Daugherity@LSR
Subject: Symbolic and Algebraic Computation Text
There are a number of interesting AI people and projects here at
Texas A & M and we are expanding. [... looking for a CS department head.]
Also, I will be teaching a graduate course in Symbolic and Algebraic
Computation and am looking for useful textbooks, proceedings, citations,
etc., if you know of any.
Thanks,
Walter
BITNET: WCD7007@TAMLSR
WCD7007@TAMSIGMA
CSNET: WCD7007%LSR%TAMU@CSNET-RELAY
WCD7007%SIGMA%TAMU@CSNET-RELAY
Paper mail: Dr. Walter C. Daugherity
Texas A & M University
Department of Computer Science
Zachry Engineering Center, Room 238
College Station, Texas 77843-3112
U.S.A.
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Date: 29 Oct 87 04:22:27 GMT
From: mind!eliot@princeton.edu (Eliot Handleman)
Subject: Prediction-producing Algorithms
I am looking for any work done on predictive algorithms - by which I
mean something that, given some input, is able to make a reasonable stab
at a plausible continuation. I am decidedly not interested in things which
compute transition probablities. Something which is able to generated
some pattern of inference is more up my alley.
For example, if I fed the pattern a a b a a b a into this thing, I would
expect to get back a b as the most reasonable thing to expect.
Any pointers to articles, dissertations, texts, programs etc would be
extremely helpful. Please ship your replies to me directly, and many
thanks in advance.
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Date: 24 Oct 87 08:39:37 GMT
From: cunyvm!byuvax!fordjm%psuvm.bitnet@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Mental Models
I am getting ready to conduct a literature search to
learn more about mental models from a cognitive
psychology perspective. I am familiar with Gentner &
Stevens' (1983) "Mental Models" and P. Johnson-Laird's
(1983) book by the same name.
Can anyone point me to an existing bibliography or
recent references on this topic since 1983? Also, is
anyone out there currently doing research in this
area? Although I would find general references useful,
I am particularly interested in applications of
mental models theories in instructional/educational
psychology and measurement.
Please send responses to me via e-mail and I will
summarize to the net. Thanks in advance.
John M. Ford fordjm@byuvax.bitnet
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Date: 28 Oct 87 15:32:14 GMT
From: sunybcs!rapaport@ames.arpa (William J. Rapaport)
Subject: Re: Literature classification - (nf)
In article <23600004@uklirb.UUCP> noekel@uklirb.UUCP writes:
>
>we're currently building a AI bibliography and are still searching for a
>suitable classification/key word scheme. If there are any schemes that have
>gained wide-spread use in the AI community I would be very interested to
>learn about them.
I don't know of any offhand, but here's an idea for getting one started:
why not use (or suitably modify) the list of entries in the new
Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence (ed. S. C. Shapiro; John Wiley
& Sons, 1987)?
William J. Rapaport
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Computer Science, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260
(716) 636-3193, 3181
uucp: ..!{ames,boulder,decvax,rutgers}!sunybcs!rapaport
internet: rapaport@cs.buffalo.edu
[if that fails, try: rapaport%cs.buffalo.edu@relay.cs.net
or: rapaport@buffalo.csnet ]
bitnet: rapaport@sunybcs.bitnet
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Date: 28 Oct 87 19:20:52 GMT
From: super.upenn.edu!eecae!nancy!umix!tardis!ronin!mike@rutgers.edu
(Michael Nowak)
Subject: Re: LISP on the AMIGA.
In article <2561@cbmvax.UUCP> phillip@cbmvax.UUCP (Phillip Lindsay GUEST)
writes:
>I would like to hear from people working on anything related to LISP and/or
>AI on the Amiga. This is important since I am trying to solicit a port of
>a LISP product. Any general interest also welcome. (the more bullets the
better)
I bought the MCC Lisp awhile back to use in my AI class and it was generally
useful for that. What would be really nice is an implementation of Common
Lisp for the Amiga.
Michael Nowak
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Date: 28 Oct 87 19:01:45 GMT
From: wagner@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner)
Reply-to: gandalf@portia.stanford.edu (Juergen Wagner)
Subject: Re: NIL (the lisp)
>where can i get a copy (of the source code for) NIL (the lisp implementation)?
Contact MIT AI Lab, Glenn Burke. That's where I got a copy of NIL from (about
three years ago). But...
>does anyone out there have a small (minimal) fast lisp in C with
>free or at least royalty-free source code ?
...NIL is neither small, nor minimal. At least the version I worked with used
to eat up a fair amount of CPU time (especially when I compiled LISP code). I
don't know if there is a version of NIL under UNIX, I only know one under VMS.
If you are looking for a CommonLISP system which is reasonably small
(minimal), which provides the standard language capabilities (CLtL) plus some
extensions, which allows for dynamic loading of C modules (and thereby e.g.
interfacing to window systems), and which is royalty-free (non-commercial
use), I suggest Kyoto CommonLISP (KCL). Read comp.lang.lisp for more details
on how to get a copy of KCL (via anonymous FTP, direct order, etc.).
Juergen Wagner, (USENET) gandalf@portia.stanford.edu
Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford CA
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Date: 28 Oct 87 15:38:42 GMT
From: ihnp4!alberta!auvax!kevinc@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Kevin Barry
Crocker)
Subject: Re: Character recognition
In article <2984@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
> In article <641@zen.UUCP> vic@zen.UUCP (Victor Gavin) writes:
> > I have been asked to write some software which can (given an image
> > produced by the scanner) reproduce the original text of the paper in a
> > machine readable form.
>
> I don't know much about it, but a company called DEST markets a
> 300-dpi scanner for the Macintosh (and, I think, IBM-PC) for about $2k,
This may not be relevant to all, but a recent issue of PC Magazine does
a review of both Desktop Publishing and Scanners for the PC Market.
The issue is Volume 6 Number 17 October 13, 1987. Now, I realize that
for Mac users this may not be totally relevant but some of these
companies may make suitable software to make thier product usable on
the Mac - especially those that link to PageMaker. In fact I seem to
remember some vendors products being touted as both market products.
ihnp4!alberta!auvax!kevinc (Kevin Crocker Athabasca University)
Do our employers have opinions or is that what we get paid for!
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Date: 29 Oct 87 15:27:04 GMT
From: steve@hubcap.clemson.edu ("Steve" Stevenson)
Subject: Correction to Review - Spang Robinson Report on
Supercomputing, V1 N2
in article <8710280643.AA22004@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, E1AR0002@SMUVM1.BITNET
(Leff, Southern Methodist University) says:
>
> Summary of Spang Robinson Report on Supercomputing and Parallel Processing
> Volume 1 , No. 2
>
> Floating Point Systems reports 1.2 GigaFlps on their T200 system.
> .... One is installed at Clemson University where they are installing]
> SPICE.
Actually, we are writing a special FORTRAN and C for Hypercubes which
is also being used for IMPLEMENTING SPICE. A new sparse solver is
being developed by Dan Warner in MathSci. Roy Pargas and Keith
Allen are also involved in mapping algorithms. I'm heading the
language work.
--
Steve (really "D. E.") Stevenson steve@hubcap.clemson.edu
Department of Computer Science, (803)656-5880.mabell
Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906
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