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AIList Digest Volume 8 Issue 032
AIList Digest Monday, 1 Aug 1988 Volume 8 : Issue 32
Today's Topics:
Query Responses:
Cognitive Science Programs
FRL
Ronald Brachman's address
computer chess
Expert System Applications in Government
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Date: Fri, 29 Jul 88 15:10:23 BST
From: Ian Pratt
<ipratt%research2.computer-science.manchester.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.A
C.UK>
Subject: Cognitive Science Programs
There is also a Cognitive Science Master's program at Manchester
University, organized jointly by the Departments of Psychology, Computer
Science, Medical Biophysics, General Linguistics, and the Centre for
Computational Linguistics atUMIST.
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Date: 28 Jul 88 23:18:06 GMT
From: finin%antares@burdvax.prc.unisys.com (Tim Finin)
Subject: FRL
In article <576@crin.crin.fr>, napoli@crin (Amedeo NAPOLI) writes:
>Who can tell me the semantics of the slot "classification" in the frame based
>language FRL (Goldstein, Roberts 1977) ?
>This slot may be assigned with either "generic" or "individual".
>What do these values actually mean ? In particuliar, is it possible to
>instantiate again a frame that has "individual" in its classification slot.
>Moreover, is the language still available and, if so, how can I get it ?
As I recall, FRL didn't assign any semantics to the classification
slot. It was, however, commonly used by applications to differentiate
frames which represented generic objects from those representing
individual ones. What this meant, exactly, was usually very
application dependent. In fact, the difficulty in deciding what such
a distinction should mean in general in FRL and similar early frame
representation languages was the focus of a lot of discussion and
research in the early eighties. One result was the architecture used
in many representation systems which includes an object oriented
descriptive component and an expression oriented assertional
component. Information about individuals is then relegated to the
assertional component.
--
Tim Finin finin@prc.unisys.com
Paoli Research Center ..!{psuvax1,sdcrdcf,cbmvax}!burdvax!finin
Unisys 215-648-7446 (office) 215-386-1749 (home)
PO Box 517, Paoli PA 19301 215-648-7412 (fax)
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Date: Fri, 29 Jul 88 11:49:57 EDT
From: rjb@research.att.com
Subject: Ronald Brachman's address
Ronald Brachman is alive and well at Bell Labs, in the beautiful Garden State.
His net address is rjb@research.att.com.
--Ron Brachman
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Date: 29 Jul 88 12:50:34 GMT
From: ksr!breakpoint!richt@uunet.uu.net (Rich Title)
Subject: computer chess
>... computer chess.
>Does anyone know of any good info (books, papers, authors, professors,
>articles, research projects) on this subject?
>---
>Rohit Gupta Internet: gupta%uxe.cso.uiuc.edu@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu
>Champaign, Illinois UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uxe!gupta
There's a Carnegie Mellon PhD thesis by Carl Eberling,
that was published (by MIT press
I think) under the title "All the Right Moves". It describes HiTech,
the current world computer chess champion. That thesis in turn
points to other papers on computer chess.
Carnegie Mellon seems to be *the* place for computer chess.
Hans Berliner, former postal chess champion, is a comp sci
professor there.
The techniques used in the top machines such as HiTech represent
impressive engineering, but aren't what most people think of
as "AI". Very fast searching, aided by hardware that generates
and evaluates moves in parallel and evaluates positions
in parallel.
- Rich
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 88 09:52:52 EDT
From: Wm A. Carpenter <WCARPENT%MDF@MITRE.ARPA>
Subject: Expert System Applications in Government
The IEEE Computer Society (1730 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.
20036-1903) and The MITRE Corporation have sponsored the Expert Systems in
Government (ESIG) Conference for the past three years (1985, 1986, 1987). In
1989, the conference title is being changed to AI Systems in Government
(AISIG). Copies of the previous conference proceedings can be obtained from
the IEEE.
A call for papers for AISIG'89 has been issued. Papers are due 1 Sept 1988
(address: AISIG'89, MS W418, The MITRE Corporation, 7525 Colshire Dr.,
McLean, VA 22102). AISIG'89 will be held in Washington, D.C. on 27-31 March
1989. The theme of AISIG'89 will be: Intelligent Systems--Realizing the
Payoff.
*
* Wm A. Carpenter <WCARPENT%MDF@MITRE.ARPA>
* The MITRE Corporation
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