Date: Sun 3 Jan 1988 19:04-PST From: AIList Moderator Kenneth Laws Reply-To: AIList@SRI.COM Us-Mail: SRI Int., 333 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025 Phone: (415) 859-6467 Subject: AIList Digest V6 #2 To: AIList@SRI.COM Status: RO AIList Digest Monday, 4 Jan 1988 Volume 6 : Issue 2 Today's Topics: Reviews - Spang Robinson Report 3/12 & Spang Robinson Supercomputing 1/4, Bindings - Neural Net Researchers in Robotics ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 88 21:50:14 CST From: smu!leff@uunet.UU.NET (Laurence Leff) Subject: Spang Robinson Report, Volume 3 No. 12, December 1987 Summary of the Spang Robinson Report, Volume 3 NO. 12, December 1987 The lead article is on Expert Systems Tools. The leader in installations are VP Expert and TI's Personal Consultant with 15,000 and 10,000 installed. Nexpert Object is selling at 125 copies per month. Fusion has 200 units installed while GoldWorks has 500 customers. Software A&E's KES II has sold 500 units and 1.1 million revenue. There is a centerfold table listing characteristics of microcomputer expert system tools including: AIon Development Systems Prices Exsys Professional Features Fusion (First Class) Computer Supported Goldworks Hooks to other Languages and File Formats Guru End User Interface Capabilities Level Five Inferencing Mechanisms supported Nexpert Object Vp Expert KES II Personal Consultant Graphs showing installed base for Expert System Development Tools and product revenues are also provided. *(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*( Discussion of embedding AI in Conventional Systems The article includes a history of embeddable AI Software. CxPert generates C code. GURU is complete with relational dat base, spread sheet, word processor and communication software. TI now offers a package to allow expert systems built with Personal Consultant or PC Easy to be run on a VAX in C. (_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_ Hecht-Nelson has created a 30 hour videotaped courseware on neural networks. This $5,000 set of tapes of a live classroom is reviewed quite favorably in this issue. _+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ Shorts: Intellicorp's product revenues grew from 12.9 million to 16 million. In the first quarter of fiscal 1988, KEE on the SUn was the most popular product. They have 18 million in cash and no debt. Teknowledge's Copernicus is a core development and delivery system and a set of AI libraries. The charge will be $15,000 per user for workstations nad up to $90,000 on mainframes. The next issue of Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of ARts and Sciences, is being devoted to Artifical Intelligence. Sun's new SPARC microprocessor uses a tagged memory architecture which is usful for processing AI languages. Intelligent Technology has signed up $35,000,000 in new contract work in the last two months. Arthur D. Little and Carnegie Group has signed up a cooperative marketing agreement. Texas Instruments and DEC are reorganizing their respective AI groups. United Airlines and Texs Instruments have developed a Gate Assignment Display System and interfaces with Unimatic, a flight information database. Combustion Engineering is using Palladian's Operations Advisor for manufacturing problems. Infomart is using GURU, ART and Intellicorp in its factory demonstration. Applications are shipping route automation, product configuration and production scheduling. Richard Fikes has moved from Intellicorp to Price Waterhouse Technology where he will be Princial Scientist. Barry Plotkin is now founder and President of Coherent Thought. By the way, Spang Robinson Reports has a report evaluating PC Expert Systems ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Jan 88 13:07:31 CST From: smu!leff@uunet.UU.NET (Laurence Leff) Subject: Spang Robinson Report, December 1987, Volume 1, No. 4 Summary of Spang Robinson Report on Supercomputing and Parallel Processing, December 1987, Volume 1, No. 4 Lead Article is on Parallel Tightly Coupled Share Memory Systems BBN has installed 90 Butterflys and 50 of its earlier system, the Pluribus. The Butterfly Plus is an upgrade path for existing users at $6,000 per node. Initial cost is $164,000 for ten processors, 30 for $429,000 and 100 processors for 1.4 million. The GP1000 is a UNIX system based on the Mach 1000. The RT1000 is for real time. Sequent has 350 installations. The system uses Intel 80386 processors. The S27 supprts 2 to 10 processors. The S81 can support up to 30 processors and 1000 users. Cost ranges from $89,000 to $800,000. Encore has sold over a 100 Multimax systems and has won a 10.7 million DARPA contract called Ultramax. Prototype Ultramax systems are shipping. The system has a 100 million byte per second bus. The Multimax 320 uses a National Semiconductor 32332 with optional Weitek 1164/1165 floating point set. A Multimax 320 users with twenty processors costs $900,000 and suports 400 users. Software includes AT&T and 4.2BSD based OS's and Quadratron's office automation with Oracle database to follow. Compilation of the 330,000 line ADA test suite required 3.5 hours on a Multimax 120 with 16 processors and 64 MB of memory. Flexible Computer is now using a 68020 microprocessor as its base and will have an optional Weitek 1164/1165 unit. Flexible allows up to 20 processors per cabinet and 1024 maximum cabinets. A 40 processor system is being used by MCC in its database research. A four node system costs $200,000 and a twenty node system will be $625,000. *(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*( Article on the Problems at MIT with the potential order for a Honeywell-NEC processor. Honeywell-NEC was to install a NEC SX-2 at MIT. However, it would continue to own the processor while MIT would pay for its time at reduced rates. The Acting Secretary of Commerce wrote to MIT saying "it had no objection to MIT buying a Japanese supercomputer, but if a Japanese company 'dumped' a supercomputer at MIT, it would investigate the you know what out of the situation." Then Honeywell-NEC and Amdahl withdrew their offers. Then Honeywell-NEC said, 'We ended our offer for reasons having to do with on-going trade negotiations between the United States and Japan.'" &)&)&)&)&)&)&)&)&)&)&)&)&)&)&)&)&)&)&)&)&)&)&)&)&)&)&)&)&)&) Article on the ETA systems low end announcement. Six systems have been sold; four are in contract/letter of intent phase. The ETA-10P 1 million dollar machine achieves 23 megaflops on the LINPAK benchmark. Cray 1S does the test in 12 megaflops. &*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&*&* Article on Parallel processing in Europe. The GMD of Germany will be setting up supercomputer centers, networking, departmental machines and experimental parallel processing. !#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!# Benchmarks on Plasma Code Benchmark MFLOPS MFLOPS/million DM IBM 3090 VF 23.0 4.6 Cray-2 283.3 5.7 Siemens (Fujitsu) VP-200 302.5 15.1 TX3-80387 124.8 62.4 TX3-8087 and Weitek Unit 357.5 143.0 The TX3 is a binary tree based MIMD system based on the INTEL 80386 with optional Weitek floating point unit. _+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ Shorts; Multiflow has delivered five TRACE 7/200 systems. Concurrent has acquired the Navier-Stokes machine technology from Princeton University. Cray has intalled a fifteen million dollar computer at MITI (Japan). Tandem is entering the computer integrated manufacturing business. Scientific Computer Systems has set up a subsidiary in Paris and has installed a system at Ecole Polytechnique in France. Cray has earned over 500 million in revenue and has announced a program to buy back ten percent of its outstanding hsares. Alliant's revenue is 14.2 million as opposed to 8.6 million the prvious year. Tandem computers has revenue just above one billion a year. Engineering Systems International has ported its PAM-CRASH software for analyzing crashworthiness of autos and other vehicles ot hte Convex. Informix has announced relational database products for the Cray-2. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Dec 87 06:59 PST From: nesliwa%nasamail@ames.arpa (NANCY E. SLIWA) Subject: Neural net researchers in robotics Thanks to all of you who responded to my request for names of researchers doing connectionist research in the robotics domain. As I have had several requests for copies of that list, I am posting it here. A few disclaimers: I merely took the names sent to me, weeded out the duplicates, and put them in alphabetical order. Formats and cases are dissimilar for several entries. There is no guarantee that all the people listed are working in the robotics domain; in fact, I doubt that is the case. I put *** by the names that were repeatedly suggested to me, about 10 from the list of ~75. I have also had several requests about the ACC session on robotic applications of connectionist systems. I will post that in a subsequent message. Nancy Sliwa MS 152D NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA 23665-5225 804/865-3871 nesliwa%nasamail@ames.arpa Dr. Albert Ahumada NASA Ames Research Center 415/694-6257 James Albus National Bureau of Standards Aleksander, Igor (UK) Imperial College of Sci.& Technol. Department of Computing, 180 Queens Gate London SW7 2BZ, Tel.:(1)5895111 ext.4985 de Almeida, Luis B. (PORTUGAL) University of Lisboa Inst. Eng. Comp. Systems, Rua Alves Redol 9 P-1000 Lisboa, Tel.:(1)544607 Chuck Anderson cwa@gte-labs (csnet) connectionist methods for learning to balance an inverted pendulum GTE Laboratories Inc. 40 Sylvan Road Waltham, MA 02254 617-466-4157 Anderson, Dana Z. (USA) University of Colorado Department of Physics Boulder, CO 80309, Tel.:(303)492-5202 Comp.Net: DANA@JILA.BITNET Anninos, Photios (GREECE) University of Thraki Dept. Medicine, Neurol.& Med. Physics G-68100 Alexandroupolis, Tel.:(551)25292 Arbib, Michael A. (USA) *** University of Southern California Computer Science Dept., University Park Los Angeles, CA 90089-0782, Tel.:(213)743-6452 Comp.Net: ARBIB@USC-CSE.USC.EDU.CSNET Barhen, Jacob (USA) *** Oak Ridge National Laboratory (moved to JPL/CalTech) P.O.Box X Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, Tel.:(615)5746162 Comp.Net: JBY@ORNL-MSR.ARPA Andrew Barto connectionist methods for learning to balance an inverted pendulum GTE Laboratories Inc. 40 Sylvan Road Waltham, MA 02254 617-466-4157 George Bekey grasping, connectionist models of material handling using multiple mobile robots bekey@usc-cse.usc.edu Beroule, Dominique (FRANCE) LIMSI-CNRS Lab. Inform. Mecan.& Sci. l'Ing. F-91406 Orsay, Tel.:(16)9418250 Berthoz, Alain (FRANCE) CNRS Laboratoire de Physiol. Neurosensorielle 15 rue de l'Ecole de Medicine F-75270 Paris, Tel.:(1)4329-6154 Bienenstock, Elie (FRANCE) Universite de Paris-Sud Laboratoire de Neurobiol. du Developement Centre d'Orsay - Bat. 440 F-91405 Orsay, Tel.:(16)941-7825 Comp.Net: UNHA002@FRORS12.BITNET Dan Bullock Center for Adaptive Systems Department of Mathematics Boston University Boston, MA 02215 Caianiello, Eduardo R. (ITALY) Universita di Salerno Dipartimento di Fiscia Teorica I-84100 Salerno, Tel.:(89)878299 Dr. Gail Carpenter Northeastern University Department of Mathematics, 504LA 360 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 Dr. Leon Cooper Brown University Center for Neural Science Providence, RI 02912 Cotterill, Rodney M. J. (DENMARK) Technical University of Denmark Div. Molecular Biophysics, Building 307 DK-2800 Lyngby, Tel.:(2)882488 Daunicht, Wolfgang (W.GERMANY) Universitt Dsseldorf Dept. Biophysics, Universittsstr. 1 D-4000 Dsseldorf 1, Tel.:(211)311-4538 Comp.Net: DAUNICHT@DD0RUD81.BITNET Dreyfus, Gerard (FRANCE) ESPCI Lab. d'Electronique, 10 rue Vauquelin F-75005 Paris, Tel.:(1)3377700 Comp.Net: UIFR000@FRORS31.BITNET Eckmiller, Rolf (W.GERMANY) Universitt Dsseldorf Dept. Biophysics, Universittsstr. 1 D-4000 Dsseldorf 1, Tel.:(211)311-4540 Comp.Net: ECKMILLE@DD0RUD81.BITNET Feldman, Jerome A. (USA) *** University of Rochester Computer Science Department Rochester, NY 14627, Tel.:(716)275-5492 Comp.Net: FELDMAN@ROCHESTER.ARPA FUKUSHIMA, KUNIHIKO (JAPAN) *** NHK BROADCASTING SCIENCE RESEARCH LAB. 1-10-11, KINUTA, SETAGAYA TOKYO 157, JAPAN TEL.:(3)415-5111 GARTH, SIMON (UK) TEXAS INSTRUMENTS LTD. MANTON LANE, M/S 4223 BEDFORD MK41 7PA TEL.:(234)223843 John Gilmore Georgia Tech Research Institute image processing Nigel Goddard Recognition from motion, motion control goddard@venera.isi.edu Dr. Stephen Grossberg *** Center for Adaptive Systems Room 244 111 Cummington Street Boston University Boston, MA 02215 HARTMANN,KLAUS-PETER(W.GERMANY) UNIVERSITAET PADERBORN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING POHLWEG 7 D-4790 PADERBORN TEL:(5251)601-2206 HECHT-NIELSEN, ROBERT (USA) NEUROCOMPUTER CORP. 5893 OBERLIN DRIVE SAN DIEGO, CA 92121 TEL.: (619)546-8877 HERTZ, JOHN (DENMARK) NORDITA TEORETISK ATOMFYSIK BLEGDAMSVEJ 17 DK-2100 KOBENHAVN 0 TEL.:(1)421616 Geoffrey Hinton *** University of Toronto (was at CMU) HOFFMANN, KLAUS-PETER (W.GERMANY) UNIVERSITAET BOCHUM DEPT.GEN.ZOOLOGY UNIVERSITAETSSTR.150 D-4630 BOCHUM TEL.:(234)700-4364 HUBERMAN, BERNARDO A. (USA) XEROX PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER 3333 COYOTE HILL ROAD PALO ALTO, CA 94304 TEL.:(415)494-4147 COMP.NET: HUBERMAN@XEROX.ARPA Thea Iberall *** Hartford Gradate Center (currently at Toronto for the semester) neural networks for modeling human prehension JACKEL, LARRY D. AT & T BELL LABS. ROOM 4D-433 HOLMDEL, NJ 07733 TEL.:(201)949-7773 Mike Jordan Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst (413) 545-1596 Dr. Pentti Kanerva *** NASA Ames Research Center 415/694-6922 ARPA: kanerva@riacs.edu UUCP: ames!riacs!kanrva KOCH, CHRISTOF (USA) CALTECH DIVISION OF BIOLOGY, 216-76 PASADENA, CA 91125 TEL.:(818)356-6855 COMP.NET:KOCH@HAMLET.BITNET KOENDERNIK, JAN J. (NETHERLAND) RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT FYSISCH LAB. PRINCETONPLEIN 5 NL-3508 TA UTRECHT TEL.:(30)533985 KOHONEN, TEUVO (FINLAND) HELSINKI UNIV. OF TECHNOLOGY DEPT. OF TECHNICAL PHYSICS SF-02150 ESPOO 15 TEL.:(0)460144 KORN, AXEL (W.GERMANY) FRAUNHOFER-INSTITUT INFORMATIONS- UND DATENVERARBEITUNG SEBASTIAN-KNEIPP-STR. 12-14 D-7500 KARLSRUHE 1 TEL.:(721)60911 V. D. MALSBURG, CHRISTOPH (W.GERMANY) MPI BIOPHS. CHEMIE DEPT. NEUROBIOLOGY NIKOLAUSBERG D-3400-GOETTINGEN TEL.:(551)201-623 COMP.NET: MPC07M AT DGOGWD01..BITNET MAY, DAVID (UK) INMOS LTD. 1000 AZTEC WEST, ALMONDSBURY BRISTOL BS124 SQ TEL.:(454)616616 Tom Miller Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham (EE Dept) MOORE, WILL R. (UK) OXFORD UNIVERSITY DEPT. OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE PARKS ROAD OXFORD OX1 3PJ TEL.:(865)273000 John Nagle adaptive control of a skidding autonomous vehicle Center for Design Research Stanford 415-856-0767 jbn@glacier.stanford.edu NIJMAN,A.(LOEK)J.(NETHERLANDS) PHILIPS RESEARCH LABS. WB3,P.O.BOX 80 000 NL-5600 JA EINDHOVEN TEL.:(40)742558 ORBAN, GUY (BELGIUM) KATHOL. UNIVERSITY LEUVEN LAB. NEURO- AND PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY B-3000 LEUVEN TEL.:(16)215740 PALM, GUENTHER (W.GERMANY) MPI FUER BIOLOGISCHE KYBERNETIK SPEMANNSTR. 38 D-7400 TUEBINGEN 1 TEL.:(7071)601551 COMP.NET:DKWA001@DTUZDV5A.BITNET PATARNELLO, STEFANO (ITALY) IBM ECSEC VIA GIORGIONE 159 I-00147 ROME TEL.:(6)54861 COMP.NET: PATARNEL AT IECSEC.BITNET PELLIONISZ, ANDRAS J. (USA) *** NEW YORK UNIVERSITY DEPT. PHYSIOLOGY & BIOPHYSICS 550 FIRST AVENUE NEW YORK, NY 10016 TEL.:(212)340-5422 PHILLIPS, WILLIAM A. (UK) UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING DEPT. PSYCHOLOGY STIRLING FK9 4LA TEL.:(786)73171 Gil Pitney robotic path planning UCSB Comp. Sci. Dept. (805)961-8221. REEKE, GEORGE N. ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY 1230 YORK AVENUE NEW YORK, NY 10021 TEL.:(212)570-7627 COMP.NET:CDRNI@CUNYVM.BITNET SAMI, MARIAGIOVANNA (ITALY) POLITECNICO DI MILANO DEPT. ELECTRONICS PLAZA L. DA VINCI 32 I-20133 MILANO TEL.:(2)2367241 SCHULTEN, KLAUS (W.GERMANY) TU MUENCHEN PHYSIK-DEPARTMENT JAMES-FRANCK-STR. D-8046 GARCHING B. MUENCHEN TEL.:(89)3209-2368 V. SEELEN, WERNER (W.GERMANY) JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITAET DIVISION OF BIOPHYSICS SAARSTR. 21 D-6500 MAINZ TEL.:(6131)39-2471 SEJNOWSKI, TERRENCE J. (USA) *** JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOPHYSICS, JENKINS HALL BALTIMORE, MD 21218 TEL.:(301)338-8687 John Shepanski TRW, MS O2/1779 One Space Park Redondo Beach, CA, 90278 SINGER, WOLF (W.GERMANY) MPI FUER HIRNFORSCHUNG DIV. NEUROPHYSIOLOGY DEUTSCHORDENSTR. 46 D-6000 FRANKFURT 71 TEL.:(69)6704-218 Dr. Terrence Smith robotic path planning UCSB Comp. Sci. Dept. (805)961-8221. Paul Scott Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor (ECE Dept.) Don Soloway neural nets for robot manipulator kinematics MS 152D NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA 23665-5225 804/865-3871 Rich Sutton GTE Labs (617) 466-4133 rich@gte-labs.csnet TANK, DAVID W. (USA) AT & T BELL LABS MOLEC BIOPHYS. RES. DEPT. 600 MOUNTAIN AVENUE MURRAY HILL, NJ 07974 TEL.:(201)582-7058 Dr. Richard F. Thompson Stanford University Department of Psychology Bldg. 4201 -- Jordan Hall Stanford, CA 94305 TORRAS, CARME (SPAIN) UNIV. DE POLITECH. DE CATALONIA INSTITUTE FOR CYBERNETICS, DIAGONAL 647 E-08028 BARCELONA TEL.:(3)249-2842 TRELEAVEN, PHILIP (UK) UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DEPT. OF COMPUTER SCIENCE GOWER STREET LONDON WC1E 6BT TEL.: 13877050 COMP.NET: TRELEAVEN@CS.UCL.AC.UK.ARPA WALLACE,DAVID J.(UK) UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH DEPT.PHYSICS MAYFIELD ROAD EDINBURGH EH9 3JZ TEL:(31)6671081 ext.2850 Dr. Andrew B. Watson NASA Ames Research Center 415/694-5419 Dr Allen Waxman Laboratory for Sensory Robotics Boston University waxman@buengc.bu.edu WEISBUCH, GERARD (FRANCE) ECOLE NORMAL SUPERIEURE PHYSIQUE DES SOLIDES 24 RUE LHOMOND F-75231 PARIS TEL.:(1)43291225 EXT.3475 ZEEVI, JOSHUA Y. (ISRAEL) TECHNION ISRAEL INST. TECHNOL. DEPT. OD ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING HAIFA 32000, ISRAEL TEL.: (4)293111 ZUCKER,STEVEN(CANADA) MCGILL UNIVERSITY DEPT.ELECTRICAL ENG. MONTREAL,P.Q. TEL:(514)398-7134 COMP.NET:ZUCKER@SRI-IU.ARPA ZUSE, KONRAD (W.GERMANY) IM HASELGRUND 21 D-6518 HUENFELD TEL.:(6652)2928 ------------------------------ End of AIList Digest ********************