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AIList Digest Volume 8 Issue 060
AIList Digest Saturday, 20 Aug 1988 Volume 8 : Issue 60
Queries and Responses:
Where should she go? (Universities for Machine Learning)
public-domain computer chess program
Sorbothane (AIList v8 #48)
Computer Chess program request/reference request
AI in Engineering
Lucid Lisp users mailing list
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Date: 17 Aug 88 17:29:00 GMT
From: cca!mirror!rayssd!raybed2!applicon!bambi!webb!webb@husc6.harvard
.edu
Subject: Where should she go?
A friend of mine wants to get her PhD in Computer Science,
specializing in the Machine Learning aspect of Artificial Intelligence.
She has been to the library and collected a list of likely schools, but
the list is too long for her to apply to all the schools on it.
Accordingly, she asked me if I would ask the net for suggestions. If
you wanted to study machine learning, where would you go and why? Some
of the schools she is currently considering are:
Stanford
MIT
U. California @ Berkeley
U. California @ San Diego
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
U. Illinois, Chamapane/Urbana
U. Massachusetts @ Amherst
U. Pennsylvania
Carniege-Mellon University
Do you have any comments on the PhD programs at any of these institutions?
The Masters Degree program? Are there any other colleges you would recommend?
She would appreciate hearing from anyone who has finished, or is currently
working on a similar degree. Any information at all will be appreciated.
Please reply to me, as she does not have access to Usenet. Thanks
very much.
Peter Webb.
{allegra|decvax|harvard|yale|mirror}!ima!applicon!webb,
{mit-eddie|raybed2|spar|ulowell|sun}!applicon!webb, webb@applicon.com
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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 88 11:14:19 EDT
From: kanderse@sam (Kurt Andersen)
Subject: Re: public-domain computer chess program
The program sounds like the one published in BYTE many years ago.
I found in one of BYTE's first books called something like The Best of BYTE
(the name be wrong, I saw it 4-5 years ago). The book had the full original
CDC Cyber 6600 pascal source listings along with four articles describing how
it works. I hope that help.
Kurt:-)
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Date: 19 Aug 88 15:49:00 EDT
From: Nahum (N.) Goldmann <ACOUST%BNR.CA@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Sorbothane (AIList v8 #48)
This is in addition to information from John B. Nagle.
Sorbothane actually is a British product (also marketed in the US).
Contact BTR Development Services Ltd., Horninglow Rd., Burton-on-Trent,
Staffs. DE13 0SN United Kingdom. The contact there is Richard Burton,
Tel. 0283-31155. Telex 34419. Send him best regards from me.
To the best of my knowledge, somebody in Japan already uses Sorbothane
for car-mounted CD players and alike. It has excellent shock/vibration
absorption properties, but has some temperature and other
environmental problems.
As any vibration/shock isolator, it is tricky to design in, plus its
liquidity makes it an additional challenge. I'm certain Richard will
provide you with further information.
Accelerometers are used to measure vibration. Their characteristics are
selected based on the problem explored. Look under Vibration in your
library or contact specialists at Southempton University in the UK (this
is a world class school).
Greetings and love.
Nahum Goldmann
(613)763-2329
e-mail: <ACOUST@BNR.CA>
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Date: 19 Aug 88 15:05 EST
From: STERRITT%SDEVAX.decnet@ge-crd.arpa
Subject: Computer Chess program request/reference request
In AI-List vol. 8, number 58,
Antti Ylikoski <ayl%hutds.hut.fi%FINGATE.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> writes:
> The magazine Creative Computing published a large (several thousand
> lines long) chess program written in Pascal and running in a large Cyber
> computer I think in the end of the 70's or in the beginning of the 80's.
> I recall the article and the program were written by one of the famous
> computer chess people, possibly by Hans Berliner.
Does anyone have the exact reference? Infinitely (well, almost)
better, does anyone have this code online so they could mail it to me?
Or any other chess implementation, in any highlevel (i.e. not Assembly,
Forth or Basic) language?
thanks a million (nodes),
chris sterritt
sterritt%sdevax.decnet@ge-crd.arpa (on arpanet)
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Date: 19 Aug 88 15:02 PDT
From: Sanjay Mittal <mittal.pa@Xerox.COM>
Subject: AI in Engineering
>>Sriram asked about the need for an International Society for AI in
Engineering. Here's a response<<
I think we already have too many societies (ACM, IEEE, AAAI, ASME, SME, Cog Sci,
socialist, capitalist, communist, just-plain-wedged, etc) and an even larger
number of journals and conferences. Societies are good for providing a forum via
journals and conferences for a group of researchers and practitioners to share
ideas, problems, etc. However, as with all societies they last as long as there
are some common shared problems, goals and visions. . Note that there is NO
Society of all engineering branches, largely I suspect because there'll be less
to unify than divide the members. And it is not at all clear that there is more
in common between AI in Electrical and AI in Mech than there is between AI in
Medicine and AI in Mech. One could make a strong argument that most of what is
common is AI (theories, tools, techniques). But we already have far too many AI
conferences and journals not to mention AAAI and a host of national AI
societies. [There already are at least two journals that have AI, International,
and Eng in their title and I counted at least four conferences in US alone this
year that had the same combination]. Do we want more?? One strong no for what
its worth!
---- Sanjay
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Date: Sat, 20 Aug 88 10:03:33 EST
From: munnari!trlamct.oz.au!andrew@uunet.UU.NET (Andrew Jennings)
Subject: Lucid Lisp users mailing list
Sometime ago I was on a Lucid Lisp user's mailing list. Now I seem to have lost
contact with it. Does anybody know how to get in touch again ?
(Postmaster:- This mail has been acknowledged.)
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