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AIList Digest Volume 8 Issue 101
AIList Digest Tuesday, 11 Oct 1988 Volume 8 : Issue 101
Queries and Responses:
MicroExplorer vs. MacIvory (still/again)
address Xerox PARC
TICOM
Info on Automatic Reasoning
Optical Character Recognition
knowledge acquisition info
Q1? A New AI Algebra?
ES for Statistical Analysis - Summary of Responses
Qualitative Reasoning mail-list
Philip E. Slatter Address Request
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Date: 20 Sep 88 16:57:35 GMT
From: sm.unisys.com!csun!polyslo!mshapiro@oberon.usc.edu (Joe AI)
Subject: MicroExplorer vs. MacIvory (still/again)
Well? Well?
About three weeks ago I posted a request polling any
users who have had experience with the Texas Instruments
MicroExplorer and/or the Symbolics MacIvory machines. I received
a number of replies -- all of them being requests to post the
results. Nobody has sent any experienced based opinions.
I understand there are some MacIvory beta units out there,
and I know that TI has been shipping for some time. If you have any
light that you can shed on on this, I'd appreciate you following up
to this article. I'd really like to see a good discussion ensue.
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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 88 12:53:18 MET
From: Hans Borgman <HBORGMAN%HROEUR1.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Subject: query: address Xerox PARC
In a recent issue of AI-List a review of the latest Spang Robinson
Report was included. In it there was a discussion on Xerox PARC
and their research on how people "actually do design-work". Since
this is very close to my research, I would like to get in touch
with the people at Xerox PARC. Who knows the name anyone involved
at Xerox PARC (or elsewhere!) and his/her (Email-)address?
Thanks in advance
Hans Borgman
Asst. Prof. Information Sciences
Erasmus University Rotterdam
P.O. Box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
The Netherlands
BITNET: hborgman@hroeur1
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Date: 26 September 88, 21:05:10
From: Ramu Kannan KANNAN at SUVM
Subject: TICOM
I am interested in expert systems that can be used for evaluating
internal controls. Does anyone know the status of TICOM, a computer
assisted method of modeling and evaluating internal control systems?
Has it been fully developed and if so, what are it capabilities?
Are there any other packages?
Ramu Kannan
Bitnet address: KANNAN@SUVM
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 88 12:47:57 EST
From: munnari!nswitgould.oz.au!osborn@uunet.UU.NET (Tom Osborn)
Subject: Re: Info on Automatic Reasoning
Contact A/Prof Graham Wrightson (now) at Newcastle Uni. (probably
graham@nucs.oz). The network to Newcastle is very very very poor
so you may have to call him by phone.
Alternatively, get a copy of 'AI in Australia' from A/Prof John Debenham
at UTS. AIIA list all AI activities in oz by category and researcher.
(A/Prof J K Debenham,
School of Computing Sciences,
University of Technology, Sydney,
PO Box 123 BROADWAY 2007.)
Cheers, Tomasso.
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Date: 28 Sep 88 02:55:49 GMT
From: glacier!jbn@labrea.stanford.edu (John B. Nagle)
Subject: Re: Optical Character Recognition
Kurtzweil and Palantir both build special-purpose machines to do
general multi-font character recognition. Their algorithms are proprietary.
The Palantir unit is said to have about 300 MIPS of computational power
inside.
Doing this badly is easy. Doing it well is very, very hard.
John Nagle
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Date: 28 Sep 88 20:36:09 GMT
From: gao@bu-cs.bu.edu (Yong Gao)
Subject: knowledge acquisition info
More requests!
Could somebody tell me where to order proceedings for:
1. the 5th Machine Intelligence workshop
2. the Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge Based Systems Workshop, Banff,
Canada, 1986 and 1987.
Thanks.
Yong Gao (gao@bu-cs.bu.edu)
Dept. of Computer Science
Boston University
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Date: 29 Sep 88 06:12:14 GMT
From: portal!cup.portal.com!spl@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Q1? A New AI Algebra?
I read in Science News (September 3, 1988) that Brian Williams of MIT has
developed a new mathematics for use in AI called "Q1". Has anyone received
any definitions of this "new algebra"?
I would be very interested in any information about this Q1 that can be passed
along to me at the following UseNet address.
Thanks in advance,
Shawn P. Legrand
+-----------------------------+
| spl@cup.portal.com |
| or |
| ...sun!cup.portal.com!spl |
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Date: 4 Oct 88 16:49:00 GMT
From: goldfain@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: Q1? A New AI Algebra?
This was presented in a paper at AAAI-88, so you can get the details from the
proceedings. Brian won one of the "best paper" awards presented by the
editors of the conference proceedings.
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 88 09:12 CDT
From: <KDM2520%TAMSIGMA.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Subject: ES for Statistical Analysis - Summary of Responses
To all those who sent me mail requesting a summary of responses I received
for my query on Commercial Expert Systems for Statistical Analysis, here is
a summary of all the responses I have received so far:
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From: Todd.Kaufmann@NL.CS.CMU.EDU
To: KDM2520@TAMSIGMA.BITNET
Subject: re: Expert Systems for Statistical Analysis
There is a program called REX, which is an expert system for regression
analysis.
See the books "Artificial Intelligence & Statistics", edited by Wm. A
Gale, and also
"Discovering Causal Structure: artificial intelligence, philosophy of
science, and statistical modeling" by Clark Glymour, Peter Spirtes,
Kevin Kelly, & ?.
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From: Dick (R.D.) Peacocke <RICHARD@BNR.CA>
Subject: Expert Systems for Statistical Analysis
Sender: Dick (R.D.) Peacocke <RICHARD@BNR.CA>
A company called KnowledgeWorks has developed " an exploratory data
analysis/knowledge acquisition package called TEASE -- jointly funded
by the National Research Council (Canada). TEASE has been used to conduct
a variety of data analysis tasks leading to rule induction" ...."the
preliminary step in expert systems construction."
The quotes are from their advertising blurb. We've started to use the
system a liitle bit on some software quality and hardware manufacturing
data.
TEASE isn't really an expert system for statistical analysis, more the
reverse, statistical analysis for an expert system, but I thought you
might be interested anyway.
For more details contact
KnowledgeWorks Research Systems Ltd.
57 Stevenson Ave.
Ottawa
CANADA K1Z 6M9 phone (613) 725-0633
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From: Dick (R.D.) Peacocke <RICHARD@BNR.CA>
Subject: Another ES for Statistical Analysis
Sender: Dick (R.D.) Peacocke <RICHARD@BNR.CA>
At AAAI '88 a "software user consultant for statistics" was
mentioned by Prof. Raj Reddy in his Presidential Address.
He was listing some AI achievements, and included this system
in the list. It's under development at AT&T apparently - you might
like to contact them or Reddy to get more details.
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Many of the other responses I received were information regarding William
Gale's book. I thank all the readers who responded to my request and I
will appreciate any additional information available on this. Thank you again.
Murali Krishnamurthi MURALI@TAMLSR (BITNET)
Knowledge Based Systems Lab MURALI@LSR.TAMU.EDU (ARPANET)
Texas A&M University KDM2520@TAMSIGMA (BITNET)
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Date: 30 Sep 88 09:49:38 GMT
From: mcvax!hp4nl!swivax!bert@uunet.uu.net (Bert Bredeweg)
Subject: Qualitative Reasoning mail-list
I have been told that there is a mailing list for Qualitative
Reasoning (or that it is being set up). Can anyone give me more
information about this (like: the correct e-mail address; how do
I become a member; etc) ?
Thanks in advance,
Bert Bredeweg
University of Amsterdam
Department of Social Science Informatics (S.W.I.)
Herengracht 196
1016 BS Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Phone: +31-20-245365 ext. 13
E-mail: bert@swivax.UUCP
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Date: 3 Oct 88 04:01:04 GMT
From: fordjm@byuvax.bitnet
Subject: Philip E. Slatter Address Request
Can anyone supply me with an address (e-mail or regular mail) for
Philip E. Slatter of Telecomputing plc, Oxford?
[Dr. Slatter is the author of Building Expert Systems: Cognitive
Emulation (1987).]
Thanks,
John M. Ford Brigham Young University
131 Starcrest Drive fordjm@byuvax.bitnet
Orem, UT 84058
USA (801) 224-3974
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