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AIList Digest Volume 5 Issue 284
AIList Digest Friday, 18 Dec 1987 Volume 5 : Issue 284
Today's Topics:
Query - OPS5 for Atari ST,
Software - RACTER,
AI Tools - Mac ES Tools,
References - Knowledge Representation Techniques,
Cognitive Science - Princeton & UCSD
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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 87 12:25:13 +0100
From: mcvax!lasso!ralph@uunet.UU.NET (Ralph P. Sobek)
Subject: OPS5 for Atari ST
I'm looking for information concerning OPS5 on an Atari ST. Its existence
was mentioned in Vol.4, No. 203 of AIList Digest. Does anybody have any
more information? Is it Public Domain? Price? Does it require Lisp, and if so
which one? Where can I get it? How does it compare to the other versions
that float around the net? Is there any room left in the ST once OPS5 is
loaded?
Thanx in advance.
Ralph P. Sobek
UUCP: mcvax!inria!lasso!ralph or ralph@lasso.UUCP
Internet: lasso!ralph@{inria.inria.fr or uunet.UU.NET} or
ralph@lasso.laas.fr
ARPA: sobek@shadow.Berkeley.EDU (automatic forwarding)
BITNET: SOBEK@FRMOP11
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Date: 16 Dec 87 20:50:17 GMT
From: jbn@glacier.stanford.edu (John B. Nagle)
Reply-to: glacier!jbn@kestrel.arpa (John B. Nagle)
Subject: Re: Request for RACTER
RACTER is available as a commercial product. Try a computer store
with a good selection of games.
John Nagle
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Date: 15 Dec 87 00:42:32 GMT
From: Robert Stanley <roberts%cognos%math.waterloo.edu@RELAY.CS.NET>
Reply-to: Robert Stanley
<roberts%cognos%math.waterloo.edu@RELAY.CS.NET>
Subject: Re: Request for RACTER
In article <8712041829.AA19308@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
ST502042@BROWNVM.BITNET.UUCP writes:
>Howdy!
>I am interested in locating the (in)famous 'AI' program RACTER.
There is a commercial version of Racter available for the Apple Macintosh,
published by Mindscape. I do not have their address to hand, but they are
a major player in the Mac games market (Deja Vu, Balance of Power, etc.) and
so should be fairly easy to track down via a computer store or magazine.
Racter is in no way ai, but it can be fairly amusing.
Robert_S
--
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Voice: (613) 738-1440 (Research: there are 2!) 3755 Riverside Drive
FAX: (613) 738-0002 Compuserve: 76174,3024 Ottawa, Ontario
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Date: 16 Dec 87 23:04:49 GMT
From: Will Clinger <willc%tekchips.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET>
Reply-to: willc@tekchips.UUCP (Will Clinger)
Subject: Mac ES Tools
In article <12356608461.22.GCOLE@Sushi.Stanford.EDU>
GCOLE@SUSHI.STANFORD.EDU (George S. Cole) writes:
> The paucity of shells for the Macintosh is puzzling. There are three
>language environments which can be used to build such a shell currently on
>the market: (1) AAIS Prolog; (2) Expertelligence's ExperCommonLisp, and
>(3) Allegro Common LISP from Coral Software.
I'm curious as to why MacScheme+Toolsmith from Semantic Microsystems isn't
in this list. (For that matter, I wonder why things like MPW C aren't in
the list, but I can at least imagine a reason for excluding them.)
William Clinger
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 87 09:22:50 EST
From: Bruce Nevin <bnevin@cch.bbn.com>
Subject: ref. comparing KR techniques
In AIList Digest 5.283 (11 Dec 87) Guilherme Bittencourt
<mcvax!lifia!gb@uunet.UU.NET> asks for
". . . papers comparing different techniques of Knowledge Representation."
Try:
Gregory, Dik, Philosophy and practice in knowledge
representation. In Joseph Zeidner (ed.), _Human Productivity
Enhancement_, Vol. I, NY: Praeger (1986).
I assume you are familiar with the papers in the Brachman & Levesque
_Readings in KR_.
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Date: 15 Dec 87 13:48:28 GMT
From: sunybcs!rapaport@ames.arpa (William J. Rapaport)
Subject: Re: References wanted
In article <3237@lifia.UUCP> gb@lifia.UUCP (Guilherme Bittencourt) writes:
>
> I am very interested in recent publications concerning
>Knowledge Representation tutorials or surveys, and papers
>comparing different techniques of Knowledge Representation.
A new collection of essays, based on the ca. 1983 IEEE Computer special
issue on KR, has just been published:
G. McCalla & N. Cercone (eds.),
The Knowledge Frontier: Essays in the Representation of Knowledge
(New York: Springer-Verlag).
William J. Rapaport
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Computer Science||internet: rapaport@cs.buffalo.edu
SUNY Buffalo ||bitnet: rapaport@sunybcs.bitnet
Buffalo, NY 14260 ||uucp: {ames,boulder,decvax,rutgers}!sunybcs!rapaport
(716) 636-3193, 3180 ||
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 09:51:31 1987
From: rjb%research.att.com@RELAY.CS.NET
Subject: Reply to request for references on Knowledge Representation
In reply to article <3237@lifia.UUCP> [gb@lifia.UUCP (Guilherme Bittencourt)]:
Dear Guilherme,
Among the best survey articles there are is one by Hector Levesque in the
Annual Review of Computer Science, Vol. 1, 1986. This is published by
Annual Reviews, Inc., of Palo Alto, California. Hector's article is
entitled "Knowledge Representation and Reasoning." Ray Reiter has an
article on "Nonmonotonic Reasoning," to appear in the next volume of
the same series.
You might also refer to our Readings in Knowledge Representation book
(Morgan Kaufmann, 1985); it includes a brief introduction to the
field, and a number of important articles highlighting, among other
things, different techniques of KR.
The section on KR in the AI Handbook is always a reasonable place to
start, as well.
Finally, I have just completed a brief (20-page) survey/tutorial
article for the AT&T Technical Journal, entitled "The Basics of
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning." I can send you a copy if you
would like.
- Ron Brachman
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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 87 14:28:10 PST
From: Marie Bienkowski <bienk@spam.istc.sri.com>
Subject: Cognitive Science Program at Princeton
CC: bjr@mind.princeton.edu tjhorton@rutgers.edu
Princeton University has an excellent Cognitive Science
program, although there is no department by that name.
They have active research programs on automated tutoring,
vocabulary acquisition, reasoning, belief revision,
connectionism (with Bellcore), computational linguistics,
cognitive anthropology, and probably more that I've missed.
The main sponsoring departments are Psychology, Philosophy
and Linguistics.
A good person to contact is bjr@mind.princeton.edu,
who is, in real life, a professor in the Psychology Dept.
His p-mail address is:
Brian Reiser
Cognitive Science Laboratory
221 Nassau St.
Princeton, NJ 08542
Marie Bienkowski
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 87 10:31:52 pst
From: norman%ics@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu (Donald A. Norman)
Subject: Cognitive Science programs (once and for all)
Yes, there is a Cognitive Science Society. It hosts an annual
conference (the next one will be in Montreal). It publishes the
journal "Cognitive Science." You can find out about it by writing
the secretary treasurer:
Kurt Vanlehn
Department of Psychology
Carnegie-Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
vanlehn@a.psy.cmu.edu
At UCSD, we are indeed in the process of establishing a Department of
Cognitive Science. We are now hiring, but formal classes will not
start until the Fall of 1989. We will have both an undergraduate and
a PhD program. We now have an Interdisciplinary PhD program:
students enter some department, X, and join the interdisciplinary
program after completing the first year requirements of X. They then
receive a "PhD in X and Congitive Sicnefce." We have about 20
students now and have given out about 3 PhDs.
(One of these is now in Computer Science at Toronto: Mike Mozer)
The strengths are in the computational understanding of cognition,
with strong emphasis in psychology, AI, linguisitics, neuroscience,
philosophy, and social cognition. PDP (connectionism) is one of the
strengths at UCSD, and the approach permeates all of the different
areas of Cognitive Science, even among those of us who do not directly
do work on weights, algorithms, or connectionist architectures: the
strength grows by the hour).
Don Norman
Donald A. Norman
Institute for Cognitive Science C-015
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, California 92093
INTERNET: norman%ics@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu INTERNET: danorman@ucsd.edu
BITNET: danorman@ucsd.bitnet
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