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AIList Digest Volume 8 Issue 035
AIList Digest Wednesday, 3 Aug 1988 Volume 8 : Issue 35
Queries:
MACSYMA
English grammar
Data fusion and correlation expert systems
Ornithology as an AI domain?
Bridge bidding/playing expert system
Response to - Manchester Cognitive Science Course
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 88 13:50:26 +0200
From: Johan Buelens <FGCBA11%BLEKUL11.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Subject: MACSYMA
Does anyone know about an ES called MACSYMA ?
All information about the product and its (potential) uses is welcome.
Johan.
/ / / / / / / / / / /
/ Johan BUELENS
/ KUL / Dept. Scheikunde / Celestijnenlaan 200 F / B - 3030 Heverlee
/ tel. (+32) (16) 20 06 56ext. 3595
/ e-mail : fgcba11@blekul11.bitnet
/ mzzzc13@blekul21.bitnet
/
[Editor's Note:
Although MACSYMA was considered an AI program when it was first
being written, many people today would say that it does not really fit
into the category of 'expert systems', since too much of its knowledge
is represented procedurally.
One version is available from Symbolics, Inc. (617) 621-7770.
Another version, considerably cheaper (I am told), comes from the
Department of Energy (DOE).
A good intro to MACSYMA's capabilities is available from the
Naval Underwater Systems Center, Newport RI 02840 as 'Technical Document
6401'.
- nick]
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Date: Sun, 31 Jul 88 17:16:44 PDT
From: John B. Nagle <jbn@glacier.stanford.edu>
Subject: English grammar
I understand that there is an approach to English grammar based on
the following assumptions.
1. There are four main categories of words, essentially nouns,
verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. These categories are
extensible; new words can be added.
2. There are about 125 "special" words, not in one of the four
main categories. This list is essentially fixed. (New
nouns appear all the time, but new conjunctions and articles
never.)
Does anyone have a reference to this, one that lists all the "special"
words?
John Nagle
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Date: Mon, 1 Aug 88 08:26:40 EDT
From: sharon%mwcamis@mitre.arpa
Subject: Data fusion and correlation expert systems
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Does anyone have information about expert systems for the correlation
and fusion of data or situation monitoring and evaluation that have
been built OUTSIDE of the U.S.?? Thanks,
Sharon Laskowski
laskowsk@mitre.arpa
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Date: 1 Aug 88 17:58:35 GMT
From: paul.rutgers.edu!pratt@rutgers.edu (Lorien Y. Pratt)
Subject: Ornithology as an AI domain?
I am a PhD student in computer science at Rutgers and will do my thesis
in AI. I am also a bird watcher and am concerned with environmental issues.
This is a long shot, but does anyone know of any problems in ornithology
which are in need of an AI approach? I am particularly interested in
problems relating ornithology to larger ecological issues, and would
also be interested in pointers to NJ area people who might be willing to talk
with me. Thanks!
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Lorien Y. Pratt Computer Science Department
pratt@paul.rutgers.edu Rutgers University
Busch Campus
(201) 932-4714 Piscataway, NJ 08854
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Date: Tue, 2 Aug 88 08:18 EDT
From: "David S. Gibson" <DSGibson@DOCKMASTER.ARPA>
Subject: Bridge bidding/playing expert system
Does anyone know of any public domain expert systems that bid
and/or play hands of contract bridge? I would like to get the source
code for such a system, preferably written in Lisp or Prolog. Any
pointers would be greatly appreciated.
David Gibson
EMAIL: DSGibson@DOCKMASTER.ARPA
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Date: Tue, 2 Aug 88 15:38:39 BST
From: Ian Pratt
<ipratt%research2.computer-science.manchester.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.A
C.UK>
Subject: Response to - Manchester Cognitive Science Course
My apologies for the rather terse notice I originally sent out. Herewith a
fuller advertisement.
Manchester university offers a one year MSc programme in Cognitive Science.
The first two terms consist of taught courses in the following areas:
Artificial Intelligence (2 one-term courses)
Topics in Cognitive Psychology
Psycholinguistics
Theoretical Linguistics (2 one-term courses)
Computational Linguistics
Psychology of Vision
Computer Vision (1 one-term course + 1/2 term course on relevant math)
Human-Computer Interaction
The third term (and summer `vacation') is devoted to extended projects. These
projects may be theoretical, experimental (e.g. in cognitive psychology)
or programming projects; however, the hope is that students' projects will
draw on several of the contributing disciplines.
In addition, there is a series of seminars to discuss philosophical and
foundational issues, to which staff and students contribute.
The programme is heavily computational: students will be expected to master
at least prolog and pascal, as well as other languages if needed for projects.
There is also a considerable bias towards computer vision and computational
linguistics.
The programme should prove suitable to students with good honours degrees in
psychology, philosophy, mathematics, natural science, computer science and
linguistics. We expect that all students will arrive already possessing a
reasonable facility in one or two of the taught subjects; the workload is
set accordingly. (The backgrounds of next year's intake of 15 students
are pretty evenly distributed over the above disciplines.)
For details, contact:
Dr. Ian Pratt,
Department of Computer Science,
The University of Manchester,
Manchester, M13 9PL,
United Kingdom.
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