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AIList Digest            Monday, 17 Mar 1986       Volume 4 : Issue 56
     
Today's Topics:
  Queries - Intelligent Graphical System & Flavors for CommonLISP &
    Scheme Dialect of Lisp,
  AI Tools - Smalltalk 80 for Apple Macintosh,
  Publications - Prolog Book & Journal Prices & Computer Chess Journal,
  Theory - Turing Tests
     
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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 86 15:41:20 est
From: [email-masked] (Patrick Tang)
Subject: An Intelligent Graphical System
     
I am currently trying to study the feasibility of developing
an intelligent graphical system which involved possibly the
development of an interface between the graphical system and
an expert system as an interpreter between the system and the
user in natural English.
     
Another possible feature is an inclusion of an expert system
to perform some analysis of the object drawn.
     
So if anyone ever come across a system with such features or
materials published which is related, I would appreciate if
you could send me the name and the origin so that I could
pursue the matter from there.
     
Thanks in advance.
     
--
Programmers Dictionary: ``argc'' - Expression of frustration. See argv.
     
Tang Guan Yaw/Patrick            ISD:   +61 62 68 8170
Dept. Computer Science           STD:   (062) 68 8170
University College            ACSNET:   [email-masked]
Uni. New South Wales            UUCP:   ...!seismo!munnari!csadfa.oz!gyp    or
Aust. Defence Force Academy     ...!{decvax,pesnta,vax135}!mulga!csadfa.oz!gyp
Canberra. ACT. 2600.            ARPA:   [email-masked]
AUSTRALIA                      CSNET:   [email-masked]
     
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Date: 09 Mar 86 23:15 CDT
From: [email-masked]
Reply-to: [email-masked]
Subject: Flavors for CommonLISP
     
We of the Center for Intelligent Systems here at Camp Vandyland
are looking for any information that might lead to our obtaining
a Flavors implementation for CommonLISP, preferably VAXLISP.
Please reply by letter; if sufficient info arrives, I will post
a summary to this bboard.
     
David R [email-masked]
[email-masked]
     
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Date: 17 Mar 86 01:41:37 EST
From: Steven J. Zeve <[email-masked]>
Subject: Scheme dialect of Lisp
     
A friend has asked me to get some general information about the Scheme
dialect of Lisp, in particular the Macintosh implementation of it.  Is
this a good implementation?  Is the dialect a good one?  Since I am
not quite sure what information my friend wants, anything and
everything would be appreciated.  Since I don't normally read this
list, please send replies directly to me.
     
        Thanks,
        Steve Z.
     
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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 86 13:32 PST
From: "Watson Mark%SAI.MFENET"@LLL-MFE.ARPA
Subject: Smalltalk 80 for Apple Macintosh

I recently posted a message concerning Smalltalk on the Apple
Macintosh.  I purchased a Smalltalk license for $50 from Apple
and I recommend the system.  Call Lynn Termer at Apple at
(408) 973-2147 to get a license agreement.  Orders can then
be placed by calling RTI at (408) 747-1288.
    Two other symbolic programming languages are available for
the Macintosh:  ExperLisp and MacScheme.  I have been using
ExperLisp for over a year and it is quite good (compiles into
machine code).  I have placed an order for MacScheme and will
report on it if there is any interest.
     
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Date: Sat, 15 Mar 86 23:27:33 est
From: Logicware <sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittatc!utecfa!decvax!utcsri!logicwa
      @ucbvax.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: Prolog Books
     
Greg:
In reply to you question about introductory books on Prolog:
You might be interested in a combination textbook/tutorial
that myself and two colleagues have put together.  The
name of the package is:
    The MPROLOG Primer
and consists of a 500 page textbook (18 chapters) titled
"A Primer for Logic Programming".  It is a fairly
comprehensive introduction to Prolog, MPROLOG and
logic programming.
The tutorial software which accompanies the book has 9
different tutorials on typical Prolog subjects (recursion,
backtracking and so forth). In addition, the software has
a "freeform" area where you  can enter and test
programs.
     
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Date: Fri 14 Mar 86 15:48:42-PST
From: Wilkins  <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Journal Prices
     
And also, we could refuse to review papers for such journals
unless some suitable fee is paid for the reviewing.  Perhaps
this AI Researchers Society could set up a fee structure for
all sorts of services we provide the publishers.
     
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Date: 13 Mar 86 16:51:23 GMT
From: ulysses!burl!clyde!watmath!utzoo!utcsri!ubc-vision!alberta!tony
      @ucbvax.berkeley.edu  (Tony Marsland)
Subject: Computer Chess Journal
     
The December 1985 copy of the Int. Comp. Chess Assoc. Journal is now (finally)
being distributed. This 70 page issue contains many reports, news and reviews
(including information about a new computer chess bibliography) of recent
computer chess activity. The journal contains the following research articles
     
"A Hypothesis concerning the Strength of Chess Programs" by Newborn
"An Ulti-mate Look at the KPK Data Base" by van Bergen
"Constructing Data Bases to Fit a Microcomputer" by Nefkens
"A Guage of Endgames" by Herschberg and van den Herik
"Inventive Problem Solvling" by Wiereyn
     
Subscriptions, $15 per year for 4 issues, available from
W.T. Blanchard, 3S, 253 Blackthorn Lane, Warrenville, IL 60555
     
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Date: Fri 14 Mar 86 11:05:51-PST
From: Oscar Firschein <[email-masked]>
Subject: Turing Tests
     
Daniel Dennett has an interesting chapter, "Can Machines Think?" (pp.
121-145) in the collection, "How We Know," Michael Shafto (ed), Harper
and Row 1985. Dennett feels that the Turing test has been
misunderstood and misused:
     
"It is a sad irony that Turing's proposal has had exactly the opposite
effect on the discussion of that which he intended. Turing didn't
design the test as a useful tool in scientific psychology, a method of
confirming or disconfirming scientific theories or evaluating
particular models of mental function: he designed it to be nothing
more than a philosophical conversation-stopper. He proposed -- in the
spirit of 'Put up or shut up!' -- a simple test for thinking that was
surely strong enough to satisfy the sternest skeptic (or so he
thought)....  Alas, philosophers --amateur and professional -- have
instead taken Turing's proposal as the pretext for just the sort of
definitional haggling and interminable arguing about imaginary
counterexamples he was hoping to squelch."
     
His metaphor of the "Dennett test for being a great city" clarifies the
role of the Turing test, and is worth reading.
     
His conclusions are: (1) The Turing test in unadulterated,
unrestricted form, as Turing presented it, is plenty strong if well
used, (2) Cheapened versions of the Turing test are everywhere in the
air.
     
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