Date: Fri 19 Aug 1988 00:54-EDT From: AIList Moderator Nick Papadakis Reply-To: AIList@mc.lcs.mit.edu Us-Mail: MIT LCS, 545 Tech Square, Rm# NE43-504, Cambridge MA 02139 Phone: (617) 253-6524 Subject: AIList Digest V8 #57 To: AIList@mc.lcs.mit.edu Status: R AIList Digest Friday, 19 Aug 1988 Volume 8 : Issue 57 Queries: Maths Newsgroups; Lenat's AM Merrion Inc.'s TOP-ONE Hidden Markov models expert systems LISP compiler for the CRAY? AI in Engineering ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 15-AUG-1988 22:48:06 GMT From: POPX%VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK@MITVMA.MIT.EDU MATHS NEWSGROUPS; LENAT'S AM. This request is partly stimulated by Paul Benjamin's category theory broadcast: I'd like to know of any newsgroups whose discussions include: (1) Applications of topology, category theory, chaos theory etc. to AI. With the exception of logic, and some neural net, vision, and low-level speech work, I've seen very little written on applying such methods: a great shame, since there are some powerful tools out there. (2) Discussions about mathematics generally. (3) Theory and implementation of programming languages (e.g. denotational semantics; compilation of object-oriented languages; models of parallelism). I suspect there are some Usenet newsgroups covering these. Unfortunately, I can't access them, because our University's computing service won't pay the entry-to-Britain gateway charges imposed by the University of Kent. Perhaps some are available in digested form by another route? (If not, I suppose I could offer my services as digester, provided that contributions can be switched out of Usenet and through the UCL or Earn gateways...) Also, does anyone know of any work on rational reconstructions of Lenat's concept discovery program AM, or on a formal theory of what it does? (i.e. a formalisation of notions like the distance between concepts, the "worth" of a concept, etc). Thanks in advance for any information. I'll re-send anything of general interest back to this newsgroup. ------------------------------ Date: 16 Aug 88 20:21:04 GMT From: dsacg1!ntm1169@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mott Given) Subject: Merrion Inc.'s TOP-ONE I would like to find the telephone number and address of a company called Merrion Inc. that sells an expert system building tool called TOP-ONE. Also, I would like comments about TOP-ONE on the pros & cons of using it to build an expert system application. -- Mott Given @ Defense Logistics Agency ,DSAC-TMP, P.O. Box 1605, Systems Automation Center, Columbus, OH 43216-5002 UUCP: {cbosgd,gould,cbatt!osu-cis}!dsacg1!mgiven Phone: 614-238-9431 ------------------------------ Date: 17 Aug 88 03:31:16 GMT From: att!alberta!calgary!radford@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Radford Neal) Subject: Hidden Markov models I've been playing around with applying hidden Markov models to data compression. I've read some stuff by S. E. Levinson on applications of hidden Markov models to speach recognition, and tried out the apparently famous Baum-Welch algorithm. I'd be interested in hearing anything about: - Applications outside speach recognition. - Algorithms for finding models with many states (say >200). - Generalizations to two or more dimensions. - Ways of reducing models to equivalent models with fewer states. - Anything else you think is amusing. Thanks, Radford Neal ------------------------------ Date: 17 Aug 88 16:49:00 GMT From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!gupta@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu Subject: expert systems I'm getting interested in Expert Systems. Could someone reccommend any good books or articles (recent ones) to read? Thanks --- Rohit Gupta Internet: gupta%uxe.cso.uiuc.edu@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu P. O. Box 2828 - Sta A UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uxe!gupta Champaign, IL 61820 Bitnet: gupta@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu "The University of Illinois is in Champaign-Urbana?!? No wonder I couldn't find it, I thought you said Shampoo-Banana..." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Aug 88 16:03:33 CDT From: Phelps%csvax.cs.ukans.edu@RELAY.CS.NET Subject: LISP compiler for the CRAY? Does anyone know of a LISP compiler for the CRAY machine? Send responses to me at the above e-mail address, or by mail to: Jim Phelps US Sprint 9350 Metcalf Ave. Overland Park, KS 66212 or call at 913-967-2542 Thank You ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Aug 88 15:54:12 EDT From: Subject: AI in Engineering I am just trying to get a feel from the AILIST readers whether there is a need for an International Society for AI in Engineering. This society would cater to application oriented AI researchers in engineering. If there is enough interest out there, suggestions for possible organizational strategies would be welcome, i.e., should it be affiliated with IEEE, AAAI, independent, etc. sriram@athena.mit.edu ------------------------------ End of AIList Digest ********************