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AIList Digest Volume 6 Issue 002
AIList Digest Monday, 4 Jan 1988 Volume 6 : Issue 2
Today's Topics:
Reviews - Spang Robinson Report 3/12 &
Spang Robinson Supercomputing 1/4,
Bindings - Neural Net Researchers in Robotics
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Date: Sat, 2 Jan 88 21:50:14 CST
From: smu!leff@uunet.UU.NET (Laurence Leff)
Subject: Spang Robinson Report, Volume 3 No. 12, December 1987
Summary of the Spang Robinson Report, Volume 3 NO. 12, December 1987
The lead article is on Expert Systems Tools.
The leader in installations are VP Expert and TI's Personal Consultant
with 15,000 and 10,000 installed.
Nexpert Object is selling at 125 copies per month.
Fusion has 200 units installed while GoldWorks has 500 customers.
Software A&E's KES II has sold 500 units and 1.1 million revenue.
There is a centerfold table listing characteristics of microcomputer
expert system tools including:
AIon Development Systems Prices
Exsys Professional Features
Fusion (First Class) Computer Supported
Goldworks Hooks to other Languages and File Formats
Guru End User Interface Capabilities
Level Five Inferencing Mechanisms supported
Nexpert Object
Vp Expert
KES II
Personal Consultant
Graphs showing installed base for Expert System Development Tools and
product revenues are also provided.
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Discussion of embedding AI in Conventional Systems
The article includes a history of embeddable AI Software.
CxPert generates C code.
GURU is complete with relational dat base, spread sheet, word processor
and communication software.
TI now offers a package to allow expert systems built with Personal Consultant
or PC Easy to be run on a VAX in C.
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Hecht-Nelson has created a 30 hour videotaped courseware on neural networks.
This $5,000 set of tapes of a live classroom
is reviewed quite favorably in this issue.
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Shorts:
Intellicorp's product revenues grew from 12.9 million to 16 million.
In the first quarter of fiscal 1988, KEE on the SUn was the most popular
product.
They have 18 million in cash and no debt.
Teknowledge's Copernicus is a core development and delivery system
and a set of AI libraries. The charge will be $15,000 per user for
workstations nad up to $90,000 on mainframes.
The next issue of Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy
of ARts and Sciences, is being devoted to Artifical Intelligence.
Sun's new SPARC microprocessor uses a tagged memory architecture which
is usful for processing AI languages.
Intelligent Technology has signed up $35,000,000 in new contract work in
the last two months.
Arthur D. Little and Carnegie Group has signed up a
cooperative marketing agreement.
Texas Instruments and DEC are reorganizing their respective AI groups.
United Airlines and Texs Instruments have developed a Gate Assignment Display
System and interfaces with Unimatic, a flight information database.
Combustion Engineering is using Palladian's Operations Advisor
for manufacturing problems.
Infomart is using GURU, ART and Intellicorp in its factory demonstration.
Applications are shipping route automation, product configuration and
production scheduling.
Richard Fikes has moved from Intellicorp to Price Waterhouse Technology
where he will be Princial Scientist.
Barry Plotkin is now founder and President of Coherent Thought.
By the way, Spang Robinson Reports has a report evaluating PC Expert Systems
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Date: Sun, 3 Jan 88 13:07:31 CST
From: smu!leff@uunet.UU.NET (Laurence Leff)
Subject: Spang Robinson Report, December 1987, Volume 1, No. 4
Summary of Spang Robinson Report on Supercomputing and Parallel Processing,
December 1987, Volume 1, No. 4
Lead Article is on Parallel Tightly Coupled Share Memory Systems
BBN has installed 90 Butterflys and 50 of its earlier system, the
Pluribus. The Butterfly Plus is an upgrade path for existing users at
$6,000 per node. Initial cost is $164,000 for ten processors, 30 for
$429,000 and 100 processors for 1.4 million.
The GP1000 is a UNIX system based on the Mach 1000. The RT1000 is
for real time.
Sequent has 350 installations. The system uses Intel 80386 processors.
The S27 supprts 2 to 10 processors. The S81 can support up to 30
processors and 1000 users.
Cost ranges from $89,000 to $800,000.
Encore has sold over a 100 Multimax systems and has won a 10.7 million
DARPA contract called Ultramax. Prototype Ultramax systems are shipping.
The system has a 100 million byte per second bus. The Multimax 320 uses a
National Semiconductor 32332 with optional Weitek 1164/1165 floating
point set. A Multimax 320 users with twenty processors costs $900,000
and suports 400 users. Software includes AT&T and 4.2BSD based OS's
and Quadratron's office automation with Oracle database to follow.
Compilation of the 330,000 line
ADA test suite required 3.5 hours on a Multimax 120 with 16 processors
and 64 MB of memory.
Flexible Computer is now using a 68020 microprocessor as its base and
will have an optional Weitek 1164/1165 unit. Flexible allows up to
20 processors per cabinet and 1024 maximum cabinets. A 40 processor
system is being used
by MCC in its database research.
A four node system costs $200,000 and a twenty node system will be $625,000.
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Article on the Problems at MIT with the potential order for a Honeywell-NEC
processor.
Honeywell-NEC was to install a NEC SX-2 at MIT. However, it would continue
to own the processor while MIT would pay for its time at reduced rates.
The Acting Secretary of Commerce wrote to MIT saying "it had no objection
to MIT buying a Japanese supercomputer, but if a Japanese company
'dumped' a supercomputer at MIT, it would investigate the you know what
out of the situation." Then Honeywell-NEC and Amdahl withdrew their offers.
Then Honeywell-NEC said, 'We ended our offer for reasons having to do with
on-going trade negotiations between the United States and Japan.'"
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Article on the ETA systems low end announcement.
Six systems have been sold; four are in contract/letter of intent phase.
The ETA-10P 1 million dollar machine achieves 23 megaflops on the LINPAK
benchmark. Cray 1S does the test in 12 megaflops.
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Article on Parallel processing in Europe.
The GMD of Germany will be setting up supercomputer centers, networking,
departmental machines and experimental parallel processing.
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Benchmarks on Plasma Code Benchmark
MFLOPS MFLOPS/million DM
IBM 3090 VF 23.0 4.6
Cray-2 283.3 5.7
Siemens (Fujitsu) VP-200 302.5 15.1
TX3-80387 124.8 62.4
TX3-8087 and Weitek Unit 357.5 143.0
The TX3 is a binary tree based MIMD system based on the INTEL 80386
with optional Weitek floating point unit.
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Shorts;
Multiflow has delivered five TRACE 7/200 systems.
Concurrent has acquired the Navier-Stokes machine technology from Princeton
University.
Cray has intalled a fifteen million dollar computer at MITI (Japan).
Tandem is entering the computer integrated manufacturing business.
Scientific Computer Systems has set up a subsidiary in Paris and
has installed a system at Ecole Polytechnique in France.
Cray has earned over 500 million in revenue and has announced a program
to buy back ten percent of its outstanding hsares.
Alliant's revenue is 14.2 million as opposed to 8.6 million the prvious
year.
Tandem computers has revenue just above one billion a year.
Engineering Systems International has ported its PAM-CRASH software for
analyzing crashworthiness of autos and other vehicles ot hte Convex.
Informix has announced relational database products for the Cray-2.
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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 87 06:59 PST
From: nesliwa%nasamail@ames.arpa (NANCY E. SLIWA)
Subject: Neural net researchers in robotics
Thanks to all of you who responded to my request for names of researchers
doing connectionist research in the robotics domain. As I have had several
requests for copies of that list, I am posting it here. A few disclaimers:
I merely took the names sent to me, weeded out the duplicates, and put them
in alphabetical order. Formats and cases are dissimilar for several entries.
There is no guarantee that all the people listed are working in the robotics
domain; in fact, I doubt that is the case. I put *** by the names that were
repeatedly suggested to me, about 10 from the list of ~75.
I have also had several requests about the ACC session on robotic applications
of connectionist systems. I will post that in a subsequent message.
Nancy Sliwa
MS 152D
NASA Langley Research Center
Hampton, VA 23665-5225
804/865-3871
nesliwa%nasamail@ames.arpa
Dr. Albert Ahumada
NASA Ames Research Center
415/694-6257
James Albus
National Bureau of Standards
Aleksander, Igor (UK)
Imperial College of Sci.& Technol.
Department of Computing, 180 Queens Gate
London SW7 2BZ, Tel.:(1)5895111 ext.4985
de Almeida, Luis B. (PORTUGAL)
University of Lisboa
Inst. Eng. Comp. Systems, Rua Alves Redol 9
P-1000 Lisboa, Tel.:(1)544607
Chuck Anderson cwa@gte-labs (csnet)
connectionist methods for learning to balance an inverted pendulum
GTE Laboratories Inc.
40 Sylvan Road
Waltham, MA 02254
617-466-4157
Anderson, Dana Z. (USA)
University of Colorado
Department of Physics
Boulder, CO 80309, Tel.:(303)492-5202
Comp.Net: DANA@JILA.BITNET
Anninos, Photios (GREECE)
University of Thraki
Dept. Medicine, Neurol.& Med. Physics
G-68100 Alexandroupolis, Tel.:(551)25292
Arbib, Michael A. (USA) ***
University of Southern California
Computer Science Dept., University Park
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0782, Tel.:(213)743-6452
Comp.Net: ARBIB@USC-CSE.USC.EDU.CSNET
Barhen, Jacob (USA) ***
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (moved to JPL/CalTech)
P.O.Box X
Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, Tel.:(615)5746162
Comp.Net: JBY@ORNL-MSR.ARPA
Andrew Barto
connectionist methods for learning to balance an inverted pendulum
GTE Laboratories Inc.
40 Sylvan Road
Waltham, MA 02254
617-466-4157
George Bekey
grasping, connectionist models of material handling using multiple mobile
robots
bekey@usc-cse.usc.edu
Beroule, Dominique (FRANCE)
LIMSI-CNRS
Lab. Inform. Mecan.& Sci. l'Ing.
F-91406 Orsay, Tel.:(16)9418250
Berthoz, Alain (FRANCE)
CNRS
Laboratoire de Physiol. Neurosensorielle
15 rue de l'Ecole de Medicine
F-75270 Paris, Tel.:(1)4329-6154
Bienenstock, Elie (FRANCE)
Universite de Paris-Sud
Laboratoire de Neurobiol. du Developement
Centre d'Orsay - Bat. 440
F-91405 Orsay, Tel.:(16)941-7825
Comp.Net: UNHA002@FRORS12.BITNET
Dan Bullock
Center for Adaptive Systems
Department of Mathematics
Boston University
Boston, MA 02215
Caianiello, Eduardo R. (ITALY)
Universita di Salerno
Dipartimento di Fiscia Teorica
I-84100 Salerno, Tel.:(89)878299
Dr. Gail Carpenter
Northeastern University
Department of Mathematics, 504LA
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Dr. Leon Cooper
Brown University
Center for Neural Science
Providence, RI 02912
Cotterill, Rodney M. J. (DENMARK)
Technical University of Denmark
Div. Molecular Biophysics, Building 307
DK-2800 Lyngby, Tel.:(2)882488
Daunicht, Wolfgang (W.GERMANY)
Universitt Dsseldorf
Dept. Biophysics, Universittsstr. 1
D-4000 Dsseldorf 1, Tel.:(211)311-4538
Comp.Net: DAUNICHT@DD0RUD81.BITNET
Dreyfus, Gerard (FRANCE)
ESPCI
Lab. d'Electronique, 10 rue Vauquelin
F-75005 Paris, Tel.:(1)3377700
Comp.Net: UIFR000@FRORS31.BITNET
Eckmiller, Rolf (W.GERMANY)
Universitt Dsseldorf
Dept. Biophysics, Universittsstr. 1
D-4000 Dsseldorf 1, Tel.:(211)311-4540
Comp.Net: ECKMILLE@DD0RUD81.BITNET
Feldman, Jerome A. (USA) ***
University of Rochester
Computer Science Department
Rochester, NY 14627, Tel.:(716)275-5492
Comp.Net: FELDMAN@ROCHESTER.ARPA
FUKUSHIMA, KUNIHIKO (JAPAN) ***
NHK
BROADCASTING SCIENCE RESEARCH LAB.
1-10-11, KINUTA, SETAGAYA
TOKYO 157, JAPAN
TEL.:(3)415-5111
GARTH, SIMON (UK)
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS LTD.
MANTON LANE, M/S 4223
BEDFORD MK41 7PA
TEL.:(234)223843
John Gilmore
Georgia Tech Research Institute
image processing
Nigel Goddard
Recognition from motion, motion control
goddard@venera.isi.edu
Dr. Stephen Grossberg ***
Center for Adaptive Systems
Room 244
111 Cummington Street
Boston University
Boston, MA 02215
HARTMANN,KLAUS-PETER(W.GERMANY)
UNIVERSITAET PADERBORN
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
POHLWEG 7
D-4790 PADERBORN
TEL:(5251)601-2206
HECHT-NIELSEN, ROBERT (USA)
NEUROCOMPUTER CORP.
5893 OBERLIN DRIVE
SAN DIEGO, CA 92121
TEL.: (619)546-8877
HERTZ, JOHN (DENMARK)
NORDITA
TEORETISK ATOMFYSIK
BLEGDAMSVEJ 17
DK-2100 KOBENHAVN 0
TEL.:(1)421616
Geoffrey Hinton ***
University of Toronto (was at CMU)
HOFFMANN, KLAUS-PETER (W.GERMANY)
UNIVERSITAET BOCHUM
DEPT.GEN.ZOOLOGY
UNIVERSITAETSSTR.150
D-4630 BOCHUM
TEL.:(234)700-4364
HUBERMAN, BERNARDO A. (USA)
XEROX PALO ALTO
RESEARCH CENTER
3333 COYOTE HILL ROAD
PALO ALTO, CA 94304
TEL.:(415)494-4147
COMP.NET: HUBERMAN@XEROX.ARPA
Thea Iberall ***
Hartford Gradate Center (currently at Toronto for the semester)
neural networks for modeling human prehension
JACKEL, LARRY D.
AT & T BELL LABS.
ROOM 4D-433
HOLMDEL, NJ 07733
TEL.:(201)949-7773
Mike Jordan
Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
(413) 545-1596
Dr. Pentti Kanerva ***
NASA Ames Research Center
415/694-6922
ARPA: kanerva@riacs.edu
UUCP: ames!riacs!kanrva
KOCH, CHRISTOF (USA)
CALTECH
DIVISION OF BIOLOGY, 216-76
PASADENA, CA 91125
TEL.:(818)356-6855
COMP.NET:KOCH@HAMLET.BITNET
KOENDERNIK, JAN J. (NETHERLAND)
RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT
FYSISCH LAB.
PRINCETONPLEIN 5
NL-3508 TA UTRECHT
TEL.:(30)533985
KOHONEN, TEUVO (FINLAND)
HELSINKI UNIV. OF TECHNOLOGY
DEPT. OF TECHNICAL PHYSICS
SF-02150 ESPOO 15
TEL.:(0)460144
KORN, AXEL (W.GERMANY)
FRAUNHOFER-INSTITUT
INFORMATIONS- UND DATENVERARBEITUNG
SEBASTIAN-KNEIPP-STR. 12-14
D-7500 KARLSRUHE 1
TEL.:(721)60911
V. D. MALSBURG, CHRISTOPH (W.GERMANY)
MPI BIOPHS. CHEMIE
DEPT. NEUROBIOLOGY
NIKOLAUSBERG
D-3400-GOETTINGEN
TEL.:(551)201-623
COMP.NET: MPC07M AT DGOGWD01..BITNET
MAY, DAVID (UK)
INMOS LTD.
1000 AZTEC WEST, ALMONDSBURY
BRISTOL BS124 SQ
TEL.:(454)616616
Tom Miller
Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham (EE Dept)
MOORE, WILL R. (UK)
OXFORD UNIVERSITY
DEPT. OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE
PARKS ROAD
OXFORD OX1 3PJ
TEL.:(865)273000
John Nagle
adaptive control of a skidding autonomous vehicle
Center for Design Research
Stanford
415-856-0767
jbn@glacier.stanford.edu
NIJMAN,A.(LOEK)J.(NETHERLANDS)
PHILIPS RESEARCH LABS.
WB3,P.O.BOX 80 000
NL-5600 JA EINDHOVEN
TEL.:(40)742558
ORBAN, GUY (BELGIUM)
KATHOL. UNIVERSITY LEUVEN
LAB. NEURO- AND PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
B-3000 LEUVEN
TEL.:(16)215740
PALM, GUENTHER (W.GERMANY)
MPI FUER BIOLOGISCHE KYBERNETIK
SPEMANNSTR. 38
D-7400 TUEBINGEN 1
TEL.:(7071)601551
COMP.NET:DKWA001@DTUZDV5A.BITNET
PATARNELLO, STEFANO (ITALY)
IBM ECSEC
VIA GIORGIONE 159
I-00147 ROME
TEL.:(6)54861
COMP.NET: PATARNEL AT IECSEC.BITNET
PELLIONISZ, ANDRAS J. (USA) ***
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
DEPT. PHYSIOLOGY & BIOPHYSICS
550 FIRST AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10016
TEL.:(212)340-5422
PHILLIPS, WILLIAM A. (UK)
UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING
DEPT. PSYCHOLOGY
STIRLING FK9 4LA
TEL.:(786)73171
Gil Pitney
robotic path planning
UCSB Comp. Sci. Dept.
(805)961-8221.
REEKE, GEORGE N.
ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY
1230 YORK AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10021
TEL.:(212)570-7627
COMP.NET:CDRNI@CUNYVM.BITNET
SAMI, MARIAGIOVANNA (ITALY)
POLITECNICO DI MILANO
DEPT. ELECTRONICS
PLAZA L. DA VINCI 32
I-20133 MILANO
TEL.:(2)2367241
SCHULTEN, KLAUS (W.GERMANY)
TU MUENCHEN
PHYSIK-DEPARTMENT
JAMES-FRANCK-STR.
D-8046 GARCHING B. MUENCHEN
TEL.:(89)3209-2368
V. SEELEN, WERNER (W.GERMANY)
JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITAET
DIVISION OF BIOPHYSICS
SAARSTR. 21
D-6500 MAINZ
TEL.:(6131)39-2471
SEJNOWSKI, TERRENCE J. (USA) ***
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF BIOPHYSICS, JENKINS HALL
BALTIMORE, MD 21218
TEL.:(301)338-8687
John Shepanski
TRW, MS O2/1779
One Space Park
Redondo Beach, CA, 90278
SINGER, WOLF (W.GERMANY)
MPI FUER HIRNFORSCHUNG
DIV. NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
DEUTSCHORDENSTR. 46
D-6000 FRANKFURT 71
TEL.:(69)6704-218
Dr. Terrence Smith
robotic path planning
UCSB Comp. Sci. Dept.
(805)961-8221.
Paul Scott
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor (ECE Dept.)
Don Soloway
neural nets for robot manipulator kinematics
MS 152D
NASA Langley Research Center
Hampton, VA 23665-5225
804/865-3871
Rich Sutton
GTE Labs
(617) 466-4133
rich@gte-labs.csnet
TANK, DAVID W. (USA)
AT & T BELL LABS
MOLEC BIOPHYS. RES. DEPT.
600 MOUNTAIN AVENUE
MURRAY HILL, NJ 07974
TEL.:(201)582-7058
Dr. Richard F. Thompson
Stanford University
Department of Psychology
Bldg. 4201 -- Jordan Hall
Stanford, CA 94305
TORRAS, CARME (SPAIN)
UNIV. DE POLITECH. DE CATALONIA
INSTITUTE FOR CYBERNETICS, DIAGONAL 647
E-08028 BARCELONA
TEL.:(3)249-2842
TRELEAVEN, PHILIP (UK)
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
DEPT. OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
GOWER STREET
LONDON WC1E 6BT
TEL.: 13877050
COMP.NET: TRELEAVEN@CS.UCL.AC.UK.ARPA
WALLACE,DAVID J.(UK)
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
DEPT.PHYSICS
MAYFIELD ROAD
EDINBURGH EH9 3JZ
TEL:(31)6671081 ext.2850
Dr. Andrew B. Watson
NASA Ames Research Center
415/694-5419
Dr Allen Waxman
Laboratory for Sensory Robotics
Boston University
waxman@buengc.bu.edu
WEISBUCH, GERARD (FRANCE)
ECOLE NORMAL SUPERIEURE
PHYSIQUE DES SOLIDES
24 RUE LHOMOND
F-75231 PARIS
TEL.:(1)43291225 EXT.3475
ZEEVI, JOSHUA Y. (ISRAEL)
TECHNION ISRAEL INST. TECHNOL.
DEPT. OD ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
HAIFA 32000, ISRAEL
TEL.: (4)293111
ZUCKER,STEVEN(CANADA)
MCGILL UNIVERSITY
DEPT.ELECTRICAL ENG.
MONTREAL,P.Q.
TEL:(514)398-7134
COMP.NET:ZUCKER@SRI-IU.ARPA
ZUSE, KONRAD (W.GERMANY)
IM HASELGRUND 21
D-6518 HUENFELD
TEL.:(6652)2928
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