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AIList Digest Volume 6 Issue 055
AIList Digest Friday, 25 Mar 1988 Volume 6 : Issue 55
Today's Topics:
Queries - Robot Arm Simulator & Drawing Conversion and Expert Systems &
POPLOG Availability in the US & Parallel Approaches to VLSI Routing &
Logic/Control Applications & Sandia/Parallel Processing &
PC Guru Expert System Application &
PC Tools for Developing Expert Systems &
Portable CommonLoops & Automatic Knowledge Extraction &
Mathematical Work Station For Computer Illiterate &
Work on AM Since the Original?
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Date: 18 Mar 88 15:18:44 GMT
From: paul.rutgers.edu!masticol@rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola)
Subject: Needed: Robot Arm Simulator Software
Hi,
The computer science department here at Rutgers is interested in
finding a supported graphic robot arm simulator package for use on Sun
workstations (preferably) or as a standalone box. We'd be using it for
a grad class in robotics.
It would be nice if small, simple objects (blocks) could be put into
the robot's environment and manipulated by the robot. If the package
included some kind of vision output, and warning outputs when the arm
intersected itself or anything else in the environment, that would be
of great help also.
If you are aware of such a package, please reply by email and let me
know what you know. (Including vendor name/address/telno, if you have
them.)
Thanks for your help!
Steve Masticola
masticol@paul.rutgers.edu
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Date: 20 Mar 88 04:19:56 GMT
From: pacbell!pbhyg!paw@AMES.ARC.NASA.GOV (Pat Weldon)
Subject: Drawing Conversion and Expert Systems
Hi out there in netland! This is my first posting to the net, so
please bear with me. I am interested in hearing from folks out
there that might be doing something that involves drawing conversion
and the use of expert systems and PROLOG. Please send any responses
via email.
Thanks in advance.
--
Pat A. Weldon * Pacific Bell * uucp: {ihnp4,dual}!ptsfa!pbhyg!paw
2600 Camino Ramon, 2S500, San Ramon, CA 94583
(415) 823-7277
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Date: Sun, 20 Mar 88 22:43:08 PST
From: uazchem!dolata@arizona.edu (Dolata)
Subject: POPLOG availability in the US
Can someone give me a pointer to the party who distributes POPLOG in the
US? Since my net connections are a bit rocky, could you send me both
email and US Snail mail addresses?? (Phone number?) Thanks for the help.
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Date: 22 Mar 88 13:03:38 GMT
From: hubcap!jem97@gatech.edu (Jim Mower)
Subject: parallel approaches to VLSI routing
Does anyone know of research in automated VLSI routing that uses a
parallel approach? A book by Rostam Joobbani, _An Artificial
Intelligence Approach to VLSI Routing_ (1986), suggests parallelism as a
possibility because of the heavy reliance of human designers on visual
interaction. Thanks in advance.
Jim Mower, Dept. of Geography and Planning
University at Albany
jem97@leah.albany.edu (internet)
jem97@albny1vx (bitnet)
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Date: 22 Mar 88 10:48:44 GMT
From: otter!cwp@hplabs.hp.com (Chris Preist)
Subject: Logic/control applications wanted please.
I am looking for applications of Logic Programming to AI/ES problems, and
would appreciate any references you can give me. I am particularly interested
in work which investigates logic/control separation, though not necessarily
in a positive fashion (i.e. a paper which describes a problem which cannot
be solved using logic/control separation would be equally useful.).
Please email any references you think may be of use,
Thanks in advance,
Chris Preist.
cwp@otter.hple.hp.com
cwp@hplb.csnet
cwp%hplb.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa
..!hplabs!otter!cwp
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 88 12:24:54 pst
From: George Cross <cross%cs1.wsu.edu@RELAY.CS.NET>
Subject: Sandia/Parallel Processing
Anybody know what this is?
Business Week, March 28, 1988 P 75, Developments to Watch
"The Speed of a Cray at a Tenth of the Price"
... [paragraph explaining parallel processing omitted]
Now computer researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in
Albuquerque have developed a formula, or algorithm, that does the
trick [to divide up a program so that parallel processors don't get
in each other's way]. Using a $2.2 million computer with 1,024
processors from Ncube in Beaverton, Ore., Sandia has solved certain
real-life problems up to 1,020 times quicker than a single processor
and, in one case, even faster than a $20 million Cray Supercomputer.
Sandia says the algorithm should be adaptable to similar computers
designed by Intel Systems, Floating Point Systems, and Bolt Beranek &
Newman. "We've found a way to tailor problems for parallel
processing," says Edwin H. Barsis, Sandia's director of computer
science.
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Date: 23 Mar 88 01:42:59 GMT
From: sdcrdcf!csun!polyslo!mmacfade@burdvax.prc.unisys.com (Mike MacFaden)
Subject: EXPERT SYSTEM APPLICATION
I am currently learning the PC Guru application from MicroDataBaseAssociates
and I was hoping that some of you have had experience with it.
I am working on an application that will analyse financial statements
(using ratios) to draw conclusions regarding a company's status
within the Oil/Gas industry from an investors point of view.
Any hints, headaches, experiences would be most appreciated.
_____________________________________________________________________________
| Michael R. MacFaden uucp: !sdsu!polyslo!mmacfade |
! Systems Support (805) 756-2005 !
| Cal Poly |
! San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 !
|____________________________________________________________________________|
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Date: 22 Mar 88 20:19:18 GMT
From: Namasivayam R. Alagiasundaram <psuvax1!nrast@cisunx.cs.psu.edu>
Subject: PC tools for developing expert systems.
I am posting this for a friend , who plans to develop an expert system
(diagnostic ) for some chemical methods. He plans to develop the system
in an IBM pc. Could anyone suggest any expert systems tools which are
available for Pc's. Again, please let me know the manufacturer's name
and the price.
Please reply to my account. (nrast).
Thanx a lot,
With appreciation,
siva.
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Date: 23 Mar 88 14:39:01 PST (Wed)
From: rajd@cel.fmc.com (Rajendra Dodhiawala)
Subject: Portable CommonLoops Query
I am trying to install Portable CommonLoops (PCL) on the Symbolics
Genera 7.1 environment. I have the March 17, 1988 version of PCL.
I have followed the instructions in the defsys.lisp file. I set the
variable *pcl-directory*, save and load defsys.lisp, execute
(pcl::compile-pcl). I get an error while trying to compile fsc.lisp.
The error occurs in the first eval-when form: some nth level call from
load-defclass is trying to append #:SLOT-UNBOUND and NIL -- the first
argument is of the wrong type... etc.
The question I have is: Is there anybody out there who has been
successful in installing PCL on the Symbolics 7.1? I have had problems
with the last two releases of PCL (never tried before that). I suspect
that I am missing something. There hasn't been any such problems
expressed on the CommonLoops mailing list which has explicitly been
set up for this purpose. So any pointers in this direction will be
greatly appreciated. Thanx in advance.
- rajendra
FMC Central Engineering Labs
1205 Coleman Ave
Santa Clara, CA 95052
(408) 289-3303
ARPAnet: rajd@cel.fmc.com
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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 88 10:22:14 +0100
From: Van Uytven Herman <SYSTHVU%BLEKUL11.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: automatic knowledge extraction
Hello,
I'm interested in systems for automating the knowledge extraction process.
In the literature there's a lot of information about these systems.
Personally, I'm looking for some references of commercially available products.
Can anyone provide me this information ?
Is there anyone who uses these systems, or has some experience with them ?
I'd be very grateful if you could send your comments to me.
Thanks in advance,
Chris Vanhoutte
fpaasaa@blekul11.bitnet
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Date: 22 Mar 88 23:55:45 GMT
From: garfield!gingell@oberon.usc.edu (Thomas Gingell)
Subject: Mathematical Work Station For Computer Illiterate Desired
I desire software that would approach the following as closely as
possible. (Would spend under $10,000.)
Preferably for a SUN 3 or 4, but a VAX 11/780
is okay: I would like the capability of integerating a function
of two variables numerically with a user typing in the integrand, and
the limits. The user would then be shown a table of run time
vs. level of approximation to choose from and the option to place the
result in a file, or display it graphically at the terminal. When the
result is presented, the option to make a change in the integrand and
/or limits would be provided and the new result shown next to the
previous (if desired).
Thank you very much. Please respond via e mail.
--
Tom Gingell - Research & Development Labs
ARPA: gingell@rdlvax.RDL.COM
UUCP: ...!{psivax,csun,sdcrdcf,ttidca}!rdlvax!gingell
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 88 20:59:22 EST
From: PJURKAT@VAXC.STEVENS-TECH.EDU
Subject: work on AM since the original?
One of the students in my seminar on belief and uncertainty has just
rediscovered the heuristics in AM, the mathematical discovery system
which was developed by, I believe, Lenat. In the description of the
work there were several references to questions that would be interesting
to pursue further.
Short of workg forward through the literature looking for back
references to AM, I am asking people who read this for references to any
follow on work to AM, particulary its heuristics for 'interestingness', which
people in my seminar claim was a form of 'belief'.
You are welcome to respond through the AIList to the extend that Ken Laws
welcomes it. Alternately you may address your repsonses to pjurkat@sitvxc on
BITNET. Thanks in advance.
Cheers - peter J.
pjurkat@sitvxc.bitnet
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