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AIList Digest Volume 8 Issue 030
AIList Digest Friday, 29 Jul 1988 Volume 8 : Issue 30
Today's Topics:
Queries:
Response to - References to MBR?
Ronald Brachman's address
Response to - programs in cognitive science
Chomsky
Response to - online ai abstracts
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Date: 25 Jul 88 16:00:58 GMT
From: hpl-opus!hpccc!hp-sde!hpfcdc!hpfclp!jorge@hplabs.hp.com (Jorge
Gautier)
Subject: Response to - References to MBR?
David L. Waltz, "The Prospects for Building Truly Intelligent Machines,"
Daedalus, Winter 1988.
Craig Stanfill and David L. Waltz, "Toward Memory-Based Reasoning,"
Communications of the ACM 29 (12) (December 1986).
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Date: 26-JUL-1988 12:06:45 GMT
From: POPX%VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Ronald Brachman's address
From: Jocelyn Paine,
St. Peter's College,
New Inn Hall Street,
Oxford OX1 2DL.
(mail address only; please don't phone).
Janet Address: POPX @ UK.AC.OX.VAX
E-MAIL ADDRESS WANTED
Could someone tell me the address of Ronald Brachman? I'm writing a book
on the implementation of frame languages, and my editor has suggested I
get in touch with him. Thanks.
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Date: 26 Jul 88 14:50:00 GMT
From: port@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
Subject: Response to - programs in cognitive science
A Program in Cognitive Science is in under development at
Indiana University. We have permission to make some faculty appointments
this year but official state funding won't be received until spring '89.
We already have a number of students unofficially in such a program.
Our program will serve both graduates and undergraduates.
All degrees will be joint degrees with another department
(especially Psychology, Linguistics, Computer Science and Philosophy,
although any other dept is possible). Faculty appts will also
generally be joint appts. A full curriculum proposal was prepared
and approved by faculty committees last year.
Current well-known faculty include (from Psych) Rich Shiffrin,
David Pisoni, Esther Thelen, Ron Kettner, John Castellan,
(from Computer Science) Doug Hofstadter, Michael Gasser, Gregory
Rawlins, Dirk Van Gucht, (Linguistics) Dan Dinnsen,
(Philosophy) Jon Michael Dunn and many others.
For further information contact Richard Shiffrin,
Acting Director of Cog Sci Prog, Dept of Psychology, Indiana
University, Bloomington, IN 47405 (812-335-4972) -- or contact me.
Robert Port
Dept of Linguistics
Dept of Computer Science
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405
812-335-9217, 812-335-6458
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Date: 26 Jul 88 16:54:20 GMT
From: ucsdhub!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!ncrcae!gollum!rolandi@ucsd.edu (Walter
Rolandi)
Subject: Chomsky
>I was delighted to see Bob Freidin's posting on the winners of
>the Kyoto prizes. Congratulations to Professors Chomsky, McCarthy,
>and Thieme! I hope the world-wide attention will lead to better
>understanding and deeper appreciation of their contributions to
>Basic Science, Advanced Technology, and Creative Arts and Moral Sciences.
>
>--Barry Kort
Where can one find a good summary of Chomsky's experiments, his experimental
design preferences, measurement techniques, research methodology, and data
analysis procedures?
Walter Rolandi
rolandi@ncrcae.UUCP
rolandi@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM
NCR Advanced Systems Development, Columbia, SC
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 88 14:18:07 CDT
From: niels@visual1.tamu.edu (Niels Bauer)
Subject: Response to - on-line ai abstracts
>Is an on-line AI abstracts service available? Here's how one
>of our users described what they wanted:
>
> "What I had in mind was something more on the order of a computer-
> based literature search for AI topics like what is provided by
> Psychological Abstracts or ERIC on-line systems for their content
> domains."
There is an AI abstract service available, but only in printed form (as
far as I know). It is the "The Artificial Intelligence Compendium: Abstracts
and Index to Research on AI Theory and Applications", published by Scientific
DataLink. Again, as far as I know, this is neither available as an on-line
service or on CD-ROM. Many of the articles indexed are available through other
databases, however, this is obviously not as useful as if they were all
together in a single database.
Niels K. Bauer
Dept. of Computer Science
Texas A&M University
niels@visual1.tamu.edu
[Editor's note:
It is my understanding that Scientific DataLink's products are
provided for a fee. I think an on-line service would be more useful if
it were made available to the research community at no charge, possibly
via the internet.
Finding funding for such a project, of course, is a problem.
There is a precedent for funding free access to information: the Public
Library. When these were first proposed about 150 years ago, the idea
must have sounded as un-workable and utopian as a no-charge search and
abstract service does today. Nevertheless, it managed to work.
The benefits of free access to information far outweigh the
short-term gains of restricting it, especially within the research
community. This is why many journals have a copyright policy that
permits copying as long as it is for 'research purposes' or 'not for
direct commercial advantage'. I applaud such journals, and do not
subscribe to any with a dissimilar policy.
I invite readers of AIList to post ideas and comments on how an
online search/abstract/full text service could be made most useful.
- nick]
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