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AIList Digest Volume 6 Issue 087
AIList Digest Monday, 2 May 1988 Volume 6 : Issue 87
Today's Topics:
Queries - Scenario Machines and Training Wheels &
The Researchers' Bible from Edinburgh Dept. of AI &
Free Will for Machines & NEXPERT-OBJECT,
Binding - Lisp Machines Mailing List,
Literature - Causal Modeling & Expert System Introduction
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Date: 30 Apr 88 00:54:01 GMT
From: lagache@violet.Berkeley.EDU (Edouard Lagache)
Subject: HELP!, need references on Scenario machines and Training
Wheels.
Can anyone give me a pointer to papers on application
software help systems known as "Scenario Machines" and
"Training wheels" I am looking for references on work that I
believe was done at the IBM Thomas J. Watson research center
by John M. Carroll, probably in the 1983-86 time frame.
A Training wheels system is a software package that has been
striped of is more dangerous commands and embellished with
additional help (sort of like 'edit' versus 'ex' in Berkeley
UNIX).
A Scenario Machine is a curriculum on using the software that
is latched on top of the software, so that the user can see a
scenario of how the software can be used.
Any help in locating such papers would be *greatly*
appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
Edouard Lagache
School of Education
U.C. Berkeley
lagache@violet.berkeley.edu
P.S. In case it wasn't obvious, please reply to me directly
unless the net powers that be block your reply.
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Date: 29 Apr 88 19:34:49 GMT
From: paul.rutgers.edu!clash.rutgers.edu!masticol@rutgers.edu (Steve
Masticola)
Subject: "The Researchers' Bible" - Edinburgh Dept. of AI
Hi,
One of my professors distributed a very useful document titled
"The Researchers' Bible"*, which originated in 1982 in the Edinburgh
Department of AI. I'd like to distribute it here, but the copy we have
is in terrible shape (ninth-generation Xerox, dot-matrix printed with
wires missing from the printer, etc.) Does anyone have it on-line? If
so, could I get a copy?
Thanks,
- Steve Masticola
masticol@paul.rutgers.edu
* D. Bundy, B. du Boulay, J. Howe, G. Plotkin, "The Researchers'
Bible", DAI Occasional Paper No. 10, University of Edinburgh, revised
September 1982.
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Date: 30 Apr 88 1302 PDT
From: John McCarthy <JMC@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: missed message
I sent you the following on the 18th. Since it wasn't included in your
recent digest number #86, I assume it got lost due to the incorrect
address having been generated by some reply macro. This seems like
a good occasion to solicit reactions to our 1969 notions. If you like,
I'll send a longer message summarizing the ideas, but I probably won't
have time to do it before I go on a two week trip starting May 4.
[This was received, and was sent out in V6 N76 on April 21.
I have no objection to running it again, but perhaps a few
details about your position might draw more response. Most
of the list members weren't following philosophical AI
discussions in 1969. -- KIL]
18-Apr-88 1745 JMC re: AIList V6 #72 - Queries
To: AIList@KL.SRI.COM
[In reply to message sent Sun 17 Apr 1988 23:35-PDT.]
McCarthy, John and P.J. Hayes (1969): ``Some Philosophical Problems from
the Standpoint of Artificial Intelligence'', in D. Michie (ed), Machine
Intelligence 4, American Elsevier, New York, NY discusses the problem of
free will for machines. I never got any reaction to that discussion,
pro or con, in the 19 years since it was published and would be grateful
for some.
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Date: 28 Apr 88 13:54:14 GMT
From: mcvax!tnosel!hin@uunet.uu.net (Hin Oey)
Subject: info request NEXPERT-OBJECT
L.S.
>From my collegues at the TNO Institute for Applied Computer
Science I got the request to put the next few questions
concerning NEXPERT-OBJECT on the net:
- What are your experience with the implementations for 386,
Mac and or Apollo;
- In general advatages and disadvantages;
- Performance
- Compability between the above mentioned implementations;
- The possibility to run other programs from Nexpert, e.g.
to activate a graphics program, which can visualize some
of the input data.
Regards,
Hin Oey (hin@tnosel) Netherlands
(IBBC-TNO - P.O.Box 49 - 2600 AA Delft)
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Date: 1 May 88 00:38:43 GMT
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Subject: Re: Lisp Machines mailing list sought
The only mailing list I know of that is specifically related to
Symbolics is SLUG@Warbucks.AI.SRI.COM. This is the mailing list for
the Symbolics Lisp Users' Group. If you're a Symbolics customer you
should join the users' group, and you should get on the mailing list.
Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.
barmar@think.com
uunet!think!barmar
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Date: 1 May 88 00:49:35 GMT
From: uflorida!fish.cis.ufl.edu!fishwick@gatech.edu (Paul Fishwick)
Subject: Causal Modeling
With regards to causal models, you may wish to check the following
references:
(1) H. Blalock's 2 books on causal modeling - the first one is
called "Causal Models in the Social Sciences" (or something
close to that).
(2) Glymour et al. at Carnegie Mellon - I forget the book name.
(Look up Glymour in your card catalog). A PC Program called
TETRAD comes with the book.
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I am doing fine
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Date: 25 Apr 88 22:38:32 GMT
From: pur-phy!mrstve!mdbs!greg@ee.ecn.purdue.edu (Greg Feldman)
Subject: Re: Expert system introductory literature
In article <3531@csli.STANFORD.EDU> rustcat@csli.UUCP (Vallury Prabhakar)
writes:
>Hello,
>
> Could any of you suggest some books/literature that provide a good
>introduction to what expert systems (and AI if possible) are all about?
>I have had absolutely no background whatsoever in these areas, so I'm really
>looking for the basic, trivial stuff.
>
I just e-mailed someone a reference to this text, so I gather there
is enough interest for a posting.
"Expert Systems Using Guru" is a text that seems up your alley. It
begins with a discussion of AI, then Expert systems. Then an example
is taken (determing sales quotas) and discusses how expert systems
may be applied to serve this application.
It uses Guru, an expert systems environment, as the expert system
for development.
"Expert Systems Using Guru", by Clyde Holsapple and Andrew Whinston,
published by Dow Jones Irwin, 1986. Price ~$35.00.
Available from bookstores or by calling (800) 323-3629.
A good text to see how AI & Expert Systems can be applied in the
"real" world.
> -- Vallury Prabhakar
> -- rustcat@cnc-sun.stanford.edu
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UUCP: {rutgers,ihnp4,decvax,ucbvax}!pur-ee!mdbs!support
Note: "These are my opinions, so if anyone asks, I didn't do it!"
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