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Alife Digest Number 071
Alife Digest, Number 071
Tuesday, February 11th 1992
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Today's Topics:
Calendar of Alife-related Events
ACK; BUG SOFTWARE FOR IBM CLONES
Gordon Research Conference
Submission for Distribution
International Symp. on AI CANCUN,MEXICO
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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 92 13:35:16 -0800
From: liane@cs.ucla.edu (Liane Gabora)
Subject: Calendar of Alife-related Events
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CALENDAR OF ALIFE-RELATED ACTIVITIES:
Canadian AI Conference, Vancouver May 11-15, 1992
Artificial Life III, Santa Fe June 15-19, 1992
10th National Conference on AI, San Jose Jul 12-17, 1992
14th Conf of the Cognitive Science Soc, Bloomington IN July 29-Aug 1, 1992
ECAI 92, 10th European Conference on AI Aug 3-7, 1992
13th International Congress on Cybernetics, Belgium Aug 24-28, 1992
Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, Brussels Sep 28-30, 1992
State of the Art in Ecological Modelling, Kiel Germany Sep 28-Oct 2, 1992
(Send announcements of other activities to alife@cognet.ucla.edu)
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Date: Tue, 4 Feb 92 01:00 GMT
From: Hortideas Publishing <0004972767@mcimail.com>
Subject: ACK; BUG SOFTWARE FOR IBM CLONES
PUT A BUG IN YOUR PC!
It isn't dangerous -- just use the Nervous System Construction Kit for IBM
PC/XT/AT/386/486 compatibles. Based on the ideas of Dr. Randall Beer at Case
Western Reserve University (see his book INTELLIGENCE AS ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR,
1990, or AMERICAN SCIENTIST, Sept.-Oct. 1991), the Kit simulates a simplified
cockroach with a network of fairly realistically modelled neurons. The six-
legged bug (with nearly 80 neurons) walks around its "world" with appropriate
gait patterns, "wanders" pseudorandomly, follows edges of obstacles, moves
toward "food" when "hungry," "eats," and manages to avoid conflicts among its
various behavioral modes. On a 12-MHz 286, the simulation runs as fast as 1/6
real time; an animation option allows simulation runs to be recorded and
played back at much higher speeds.
The Kit programs also allow easy "fill-in-the-blank" user specification of
arbitrary connections of up to more than 100 neurons of various types, and (by
modifying the INCLUDED source code and recompiling with Turbo C or C++)
arbitrary specification of modelled "organism" and "world" physics -- so you
can design your own networks and even entire creatures-in-environments. All
programs may be modified and distributed freely. Note: full understanding of
the programs will require reference to Dr. Beer's book.
For a copy of NSCK Version 3, send $10.00 (U.S. $15.00 outside North
America). Requires EGA or VGA graphics. Documentation is provided on-disk.
Please specify 360-KB, 1.2-MB, or 720-KB disk format.
ORDER FROM: Pat and Greg Williams, 460 Black Lick Rd., Gravel Switch, KY
40328; phone 606-332-7606; MCI Mail 497-2767 (HortIdeas Publishing).
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Date: 03 Feb 92 23:31:03 EST
From: "A.T.Winfree" <73257.2443@compuserve.com>
Subject: Gordon Research Conference
The Gordon Research Conference on Theoretical Biology and
Biomathematics 8-12 June 1992 in NH will include a session on
Evolution and Artificial Life. The speakers are Thomas Ray, William
Hamilton, and Joel Cohen, chaired by Arthur Winfree.
For information contact Steven Strogatz at STROGATZ@bourbaki.mit.edu
or Leah Edelstein-Keshet at USERKESH@mtsg.ubc.ca.
GRC announcements will also appear in Science magazine this spring.
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Date: Wed, 05 Feb 92 10:04:35 MEZ
From: Alexander Mikhailov <CA09%DLRVMLA.BITNET@mvs.oac.ucla.edu>
Subject: Submission for Distribution
Preprint available:
ARTIFICIAL LIFE: AN ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE
by Alexander Mikhailov (Dept. Theoretical Physics, University of Bielefeld,
& German AeroSpace Research Establishment)
Please send requests to: Dr. A.Mikhailov, DLR, W-7101 Hardthausen 3, Germany
e-mail address: ca09 @ dlrvmla.bitnet
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Date: Thu, 06 Feb 92 12:55:43 CST
From: "Centro de Inteligencia Artificial(ITESM)" <ISAI@tecmtyvm.mty.itesm.mx>
Subject: International Symp. on AI CANCUN,MEXICO
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The Artificial Intelligence Technology Transfer Conference
APPLICATIONS IN MANUFACTURING AND ROBOTICS
December 7-11, 1992
Cancun, Mexico
C A L L F O R P A P E R S
The Fifth International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence
will be held in Cancun Mexico on December 7-11, 1992.
The Symposium is sponsored by the ITESM (Instituto Tecnologico
y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey) in cooperation with the
International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Inc.,
the American Association for Artificial Intelligence,
the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence,
The European Coordinating Committee for AI, the Sociedad Mexicana
de Inteligencia Artificial and IBM of Mexico.
Papers from all countries are sought that:
(1) Present applications of artificial intelligence technology
to the solution of problems in Manufacturing, robotics and
related areas.
(2) Describe research on techniques to accomplish such applications,
(3) Address the problem of transfering the AI Technology especially
in the context of the Free Trade Agreement among Canada, USA
and Mexico.
Areas of application include but are no limited to:
plant design, process planning, product design, scheduling,
assembly, production control, computer-integrated manufacturing,
inspection, qulality control, transportation problems, client
support, distribution, marketing, decision support, process
control, motion control, supervisory and expert control, alarm
diagnosis, equipment maintenance, energy savings and pollution
control.
Technology Transfer includes but is not limited to:
strategies for introducing and institutionalizing AI technology,
human resources formation in AI, justification of AI projects,
cooperation programs in the context of the Free Trade Agreement,
impact of AI and automation in the social environment of the
company.
AI techniques include but are not limited to:
computer vision and digital image processing, speech and natural
language understanding, pattern recognition, machine learning,
motion planning, neural nets, genetic algorithms, heuristic
search, uncertainty management, task planning, parallelism,
expert systems, knowledge engineering, knowledge acquisition
and representation, and case-based, geometric, temporal, spatial,
nonmonotonic, common sense and probabilistic reasoning.
Persons wishing to submit a paper should send five copies written
in English to:
Hugo Terashima, Program Chair
Centro de Inteligencia Artificial, ITESM.
Sucursal de Correos "J", Monterrey, N.L.
64849 MEXICO
Tel.(52-83) 58-2000 ext. 5134
Telefax (52-83) 58-1400 Dial ext.5143 or 58-2000 Ask ext.5143
Net address: isai at tecmtyvm.bitnet or terashim at mtecv2.mty.
itesm.mx.
The paper should identify the area and technique to which it
belongs. Papers will be evaluated with respect to their originality,
correctness, clarity and relevance. Use a serif type font, size 10,
single-spaced with a maximum of 10 pages. No papers will be accepted
by electronic means.
Important dates:
Papers must be received by April 30,1992. Authors will be
notified of acceptance or rejection by June 30,1992. A final copy
of each accepted paper, camera ready for inclusion in the Symposium
proceedings, will be due by July 31,1992.
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Honorary Conference Chair: Raj Reddy, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
General Chair: Francisco Cantu-Ortiz, ITESM, Mexico
General Co-Chair: Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Canada
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From: Andy Clark <andycl@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 92 18:28:46 GMT
**** PERMANENT LECTURESHIP IN PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX ****
Applications are invited from men and women for a permanent lectureship in
philosophy at the University of Sussex, England. The applicant should be able
to teach "core" philosophy courses (e.g. Descartes to Hume), and should have a
specialist interest in the philosophy of mind/cognitive science and/or the
philosophy of language.
Application-forms and Further Particulars can be obtained from:
Ms. Elinor Mitchenall
The Personnel Office
Sussex House
University of Sussex
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9RH
Phone: (0273)- 678201
FAX; (0273) - 678335 (mark FAX "for the attention of the Personnel Dept."
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