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AIList Digest Volume 6 Issue 039
AIList Digest Saturday, 27 Feb 1988 Volume 6 : Issue 39
Today's Topics:
Queries - Marilyn Dee & Pustejovsky & Softsmart & Phase Linear Inc. &
Narrowing & Driving a Mac Serial Interface with Xlisp, Experlisp &
Legal Reasoning in AI & Genetic Algorithms &
Workshop on Knowledge Compilation & File Formats for Image Data &
BBS Call for Commentators
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Date: 21 Feb 88 23:49:00 GMT
From: goldfain@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu
Subject: Address Requested
Can anyone electronically mail (email) me the "physical" mail (pmail) address
of Marilyn Dee and Associates (an AI head-hunter service) ?
Thanks much, - Mark Goldfain
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Date: Wed 24 Feb 88 10:39:28-EST
From: Dori Wells <DWELLS@G.BBN.COM>
Subject: Pustejovsky
Will the person who requested an email address, etc.
for James Pustejovsky please send me your
name, etc. again, your previous message was deleted.
Thanks.
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Date: Fri 26 Feb 88 13:29:37-PST
From: Wei-Han Chu <CHU@KL.SRI.COM>
Subject: where about of Softsmart
Does anybody know the whereabout of a company named Softsmart. As of
a year ago they were selling a version of Smalltalk-80 that runs on
an IBM PC-AT that they oem from Xerox PARC. The last time I called
them for support their phone has been disconnected with no forwarding
number.
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Date: 24 Feb 88 16:20:44 GMT
From: hubcap!ncrcae!gollum!rolandi@gatech.edu (rolandi)
Subject: Phase Linear Inc.
Can anyone provide information on Phase Linear Inc?
On a product they are reported to have called KAM (Knowledge
Acquisition Module)?
walter rolandi
rolandi@gollum.UUCP ()
NCR Advanced Systems, Columbia, SC
u.s.carolina dept. of psychology and linguistics
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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 88 09:10:45 EST
From: meadows%nrl-css.arpa@nrl-css.arpa (Catherine A. Meadows)
Subject: request for info on narrowing
Can anybody out there tell me of any good introductory references on
narrowing?
Thanks in advance,
Catherine Meadows
Code 5593
Naval Research Laboratory
Washington, DC 20375
meadows@nrl-css.arpa
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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 88 06:16 PST
From: nesliwa%nasamail@ames.arc.nasa.gov (NANCY E. SLIWA)
Subject: Driving a MAC serial interface with Xlisp, experlisp
I have been attempting to help a group of high school students here in
the NORSTAR robotics team interface their mini-mover robot arms to
a Macintosh serial port using Lisp. They currently have an interface in
Turbo pascal, but would like to use lisp for some collision-avoidance
software they're writing. They have Xlisp and Experlisp, but not
full documentation for either. Any Mac lisp experts able to offer
some advice? Thanks.
Nancy Sliwa
nesliwa%nasamail@ames.arpa
804/865-3871
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Date: 22 Feb 88 19:53:39 GMT
From: rutgers!ucbvax.berkeley.edu!ames!esl!trwspp!spp3!gpearson%sdcsva
x@ucsd.edu (Glen Pearson)
Reply-to: gpearson@spp3.UUCP (Glen Pearson)
Subject: Query: Legal Reasoning in AI
I heard of a conference on legal reasoning using AI techniques, but
I don't remember the time or place. Can anyone out there give me
details?
Thanks much,
Glen
trwrb!spp!spp3!gpearson@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
1180 Kern Ave.
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
(408) 773-5021
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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1988 17:03:30 LCL
From: Kislaya Prasad <PRASAD@SUVM.ACS.SYR.EDU>
Subject: AIList V6 (Genetic Algorithms)
While only superficially familiar with the current Genetic Algorithms
literature I remember reading a paper by Holland a few years back which
I found very interesting:
Holland, J. (1970) "Logical Theory of Adaptive Systems", in A.W. Burks (Ed.)
Essays in Cellular Automata, University of Illinois Press.
(Remember Cellular Automata?)
My question to those familiar with the literature is:
How does this work of Holland relate to the recent literature? I don't see it
referred to at all. Is there a strong reason for this, or just that it is
now old stuff? It seems to me that this paper had many of the fundamental
ideas of today (especially with respect to parallel implementations).
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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 88 05:24:31 +0100
From: mcvax!lasso!ralph@uunet.UU.NET (Ralph P. Sobek)
Subject: Workshop on Knowledge Compilation, 1986
Does anybody have a reference for the following:
Proceedings Workshop on Knowledge Compilation
Otter Crest, OR
1986
And what has happened since?
Thanks in advance,
Ralph P. Sobek | UUCP: uunet!mcvax!inria!lasso!ralph, or
| ralph@lasso.uucp
LAAS-CNRS | Internet: ralph@lasso.laas.fr, or
7, avenue du Colonel-Roche | ralph%lasso.laas.fr@uunet.UU.NET
F-31077 Toulouse Cedex, FRANCE | ARPA: sobek@shadow.Berkeley.EDU (forwarded\
+(33) 61-33-62-66 | BITNET/EARN: SOBEK@FRMOP11 \ to UUCP )
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
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Date: 24 Feb 88 20:08:20 GMT
From: spar!hunt@decwrl.dec.com (Neil Hunt)
Subject: File formats for image data ?
A question for you vision researchers and graphics wizards: what
file formats are you using for transferring and storing your image data ?
We are using a format called `picpac' which I believe originated from
CalTech; we are looking for something more comprehensive to use.
Some of the features to be considered are:
Storage of image data in 1D (histograms etc), 2D (simple images),
3D (image sequences, sets of images, etc) and higher dimensionalities
(sequences of sets of multispectral images...).
Typed pixels: integer and floating point; unsigned and signed,
packed and unpacked, RGB, CMY, CMYB, IR-vis-UV, 1, 8, 16 and 32 bits,
etc. etc.
Storage of image data in non array format (list of points of
interest in sparse images, compressed formats, etc.)
Recording of arbitrary additional data: colour maps (both predefined
and locally specified), camera pixel size, aspect ratio, date,
time, condition, title, subject, pre- and post-processing, etc.
Efficient storage and transfer (ie: the PostScript format is not
ideal, with ASCII pixel values).
Indirection: the ability to make a new image being some subset
of another image, without having to copy the actual data.
Please let me know what format you are using at the moment, what you
are doing with it, and what other features we should consider if we decide
to invent our own format ?
Neil/.
hunt@spar.slb.com
...{amdahl|decwrl|hplabs}!spar!hunt
(415) 496 4708
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Date: 22 Feb 88 18:34:30 GMT
From: mind!harnad@princeton.edu (Stevan Harnad)
Subject: BBS Call for Commentators
The following are the abstracts of 2 forthcoming articles on which BBS
[Behavioral and Brain Sciences -- An international, interdisciplinary
journal of Open Peer Commentary, published by Cambridge University Press]
invites self-nominations by potential commentators.
(Please note that the editorial office must exercise selectivity among the
nominations received so as to ensure a strong and balanced cross-specialty
spectrum of eligible commentators. The procedure is explained after
the abstract.)
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ABSTRACT #1:
Numerical Competence in Animals: Definitional Issues,
Current Evidence and a New Research Agenda
Hank Davis & Rachel Perusse
University of Guelph
Numerical competence in animals has enjoyed renewed interest
recently, but there is still confusion about the definition of
numerical processes. "Counting" has been applied to phenomena
remote from its meaning in the human case. We propose a
consistent theoretical framework and vocabulary for evaluating
numerical competence. Relative numerousness judgments,
"subitizing," counting and estimation are the principal processes
involved. Ordinality, cardinality and transitivity judgments
also play a role. Our framework can handle a variety of recent
experimental situations. Some evidence of generalization and
transfer is needed to demonstrate higher order ability such as
counting; otherwise one only has "protocounting" even if all
other alternatives have been excluded.
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ABSTRACT #2:
Developmental Explanation and the Ontogeny of Birdsong
Nature/Nurture Redux
Timothy Johnston
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
The view that behavior can be partitioned into inherited and
acquired components remains widespread and influential,
especially in the study of birdsong development. This target
article criticizes the growing tendency to diagnose songs,
elements of songs, or precursors of songs (song templates) as
either innate or learned on the basis of isolation-rearing
experiments. Such experiments offer only a crude analysis of the
contribution of experience to song development and provide no
information at all about genetic effects, despite arguments to
the contrary. Because developmental questions are so often posed
in terms of the learned/innate dichotomy, the possible role of
nonobvious contributions to song development has been largely
ignored. An alternative approach, based on Daniel Lehrman's
interactionist theory of development, gives a better sense of the
issues that remain to be addressed in studies of song development
and provides a more secure conceptual foundation.
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This is an experiment in using the Net to find eligible commentators
for articles in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an
international, interdisciplinary journal of "open peer commentary,"
published by Cambridge University Press, with its editorial office in
Princeton NJ.
BBS publishes important and controversial interdisciplinary articles
in psychology, neuroscience, behavioral biology, cognitive science,
artificial intelligence, linguistics and philosophy. Articles are
rigorously refereed and, if accepted, are circulated to a large number
of potential commentators around the world in the various specialties
on which the article impinges. Their 1000-word commentaries are then
co-published with the target article as well as the author's response
to each. The commentaries consist of analyses, elaborations,
complementary and supplementary data and theory, criticisms and
cross-specialty syntheses.
Commentators are selected by the following means: (1) BBS maintains a
computerized file of over 3000 BBS Associates; the size of this group
is increased annually as authors, referees, commentators and nominees
of current Associates become eligible to become Associates. Many
commentators are selected from this list. (2) The BBS editorial office
does informal as well as formal computerized literature searches on
the topic of the target articles to find additional potential commentators
from across specialties and around the world who are not yet BBS Associates.
(3) The referees recommend potential commentators. (4) The author recommends
potential commentators.
We now propose to add the following source for selecting potential
commentators: The abstract of the target article will be posted in the
relevant newsgroups on the net. Eligible individuals who judge that they
would have a relevant commentary to contribute should contact the editor at
the e-mail address indicated at the bottom of this message, or should
write by normal mail to:
Stevan Harnad
Editor
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
20 Nassau Street, Room 240
Princeton NJ 08542
(phone: 609-921-7771)
"Eligibility" usually means being an academically trained professional
contributor to one of the disciplines mentioned earlier, or to related
academic disciplines. The letter should indicate the candidate's
general qualifications as well as their basis for wishing to serve as
commentator for the particular target article in question. It is
preferable also to enclose a Curriculum Vitae. (This self-nomination
format may also be used by those who wish to become BBS Associates,
but they must also specify a current Associate who knows their work
and is prepared to nominate them; where no current Associate is known
by the candidate, the editorial office will send the Vita to
approporiate Associates to ask whether they would be prepared to
nominate the candidate.)
BBS has rapidly become a widely read read and highly influential forum in the
biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. A recent recalculation of BBS's
"impact factor" (ratio of citations to number of articles) in the
American Psychologist [41(3) 1986] reports that already in its fifth year of
publication (1982) BBS's impact factor had risen to become the highest of
all psychology journals indexed as well as 3rd highest of all 1300 journals
indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index and 50th of all 3900 journals
indexed in the Science Citation index, which indexes all the scientific
disciplines.
Potential commentators should send their names, addresses, a description of
their general qualifications and their basis for seeking to comment on
this target article in particular to the address indicated earlier or
to the following e-mail address:
harnad@mind.princeton.edu
[Subscription information for BBS is available from Harry Florentine at
Cambridge University Press: 800-221-4512]
--
Stevan Harnad harnad@mind.princeton.edu (609)-921-7771
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