Received: from AI.AI.MIT.EDU (CHAOS 3130) by MC.LCS.MIT.EDU 22 Jan 88 06:37:19 EST Received: from KL.SRI.COM (TCP 1200200002) by AI.AI.MIT.EDU 22 Jan 88 06:32:13 EST Date: Thu 21 Jan 1988 23:15-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 V6 #15 - Selfridge, Mazes, Prolog, BUILD, Ping-Pong To: AIList@SRI.COM AIList Digest Friday, 22 Jan 1988 Volume 6 : Issue 15 Today's Topics: Queries - Planning for Games & Network Access to Knowledge Systems & Dik Gregory & Goldworks and Nexpert & Object and Frame Languages & Computer Aided Teaching in Bioscience & Qualitative Economics & PRECARN Canadian AI RFP, Bindings - Mallory Selfridge, Psychology & Learning - Computerized Rats and Mazes, AI Tools - PROLOG for an IBM 3090 under CMS & Scott Fahlman's BUILD, Robotics - Ping-Pong Playing Robot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 18 Jan 88 04:33:20 GMT From: moran@YALE-ZOO.ARPA (William L. Moran Jr.) Subject: Planning for games Well, since I last posted asking for references about planning as it relates to the playing of games other than chess, I have gotten about twenty five responses. However, they have all been of the form - "yes I'm interested too; please summarize." Not too helpful or encouraging. One person did suggest looking at autorogue from CMU; does anyone have any info about this? A Tech report number would be most helpful. Thanks. William L. Moran Jr. moran@{yale.arpa, cs.yale.edu, yalecs.bitnet} ...{ihnp4!hsi,decvax}!yale!moran ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jan 88 17:41:29 PST From: lls@Sun.COM (Lynn Snyder) Subject: Network Access to Knowledge Systems Can anyone give me a lead to people working on distributed or network access to expert systems and knowledge bases? I interested in the interface between the remote system and the expert system, over a network, particularly if multiple users can access the knowledge system. I will compile and circulate any responses I get to this query. Thanks. - Lynn Snyder ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 88 09:48:54 EST From: "Bruce E. Nevin" Subject: binding: Dik Gregory? Anyone know where Dik Gregory is? He was at ARI a couple of years ago. ------------------------------ Date: 19 Jan 88 17:14:20 GMT From: decvax!dartvax!creare!gda@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Gray Abbott) Subject: Goldworks and Nexpert We are considering several expert system tools on several different machines. Two of these tools are Gold Hill's Goldworks and Neuron Data's Nexpert. Goldworks runs on ATs and 386s; Nexpert runs on ATs, Macintosh, and uVax. Rumors are that both will soon run on Suns. Does anyone have any experience with these tools? What are your comments? How is their speed? Have you run LARGE expert systems with them? How much RAM do you really need? How much disk space? What happens when you don't have enough? Have you interfaced with other programs? How well did that work? Both of these tools are much less expensive than other tools that appear to offer similar features (e.g. ART, KEE, KnowledgeCraft, S1). Why is this possible? Is there a catch (that is, what's the downside)? Goldworks includes an underlying LISP; Nexpert allows you do interface with C, FORTRAN, etc. Is this a problem for Nexpert? Please reply by mail and I will summarize to the net. ...dartvax!creare!gda gda%creare%dartmouth.edu ------------------------------ Date: 19 Jan 88 17:28:26 GMT From: mcvax!lifia!gb@uunet.UU.NET (Guilherme Bittencourt) Reply-to: mcvax!lifia!gb@uunet.UU.NET (Guilherme Bittencourt) Subject: Object and frame languages wanted I am searching for an object oriented extension and/or a frame extension of Common Lisp (preference for KCL and public domain). I would like to use these extensions for the implementation of a system to aid in the design of knowledge-based systems. Any hints, literature references, or even source code are VERY welcome. If there is interest, I will summarize the responces to the net. Thanks in advance. -- Guilherme BITTENCOURT +-----+ gb@lifia.imag.fr L.I.F.I.A. | <0> | 46, Avenue Felix Viallet +-----+ 38031 GRENOBLE Cedex (33) 76574668 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 88 10:50:06 EST From: Deba Patnaik Subject: Computer Aided Teaching in Bioscience area ? We need information on anyone who is doing research or has Computer Aided Teaching Software for Bioscience area. I will appreciate your help. Thanks, deba@umdc.umd.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jan 88 14:07:23 EST From: Nicky Ranganathan Subject: Request for references I would much appreciate any references/pointers to (not necessarily AI) literature dealing with qualitative modeling of domains such as economics or related areas. Please reply to me. If anyone else is interested, I will e-mail. Thanks, --Nicky Ranganathan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nicky Ranganathan Arpa: nicky@vx2.gba.nyu.edu Information Systems Dept. UUCP: ...{allegra,rocky}!cmcl2!vx2.gba.nyu.edu!nicky New York University Bitnet: pranganathan@nybvx1 ------------------------------ Date: 21 Jan 88 13:28:00 EST From: Daniel (D.R.) Zlatin Subject: RFP available PRECARN is a not-for-profit consortium of over 30 Canadian corporations. PRECARN (sometimes expanded as Pre-Competitive Applied Research Network) has as its overriding objective the increase of industrial competitiveness in Canada. This will be accomplished by funding applied research projects to raise awareness of, and exploitation of, artificial intelligence and robotics technologies within industry. PRECARN is now commencing the process that will identify, and eventually fund, the research and development activities in artificial intelligence and robotics that hold the greatest promise for eventual exploitation by the member corporations. PRECARN is inviting applications for the funding of feasibility studies. Applications to this RFP may come from: a) Canadian universities or colleges; b) Canadian corporations or subsidiaries of foreign corporations having, or actively moving towards, a significant research and development operation in Canada; c) Crown corporations with an arm's-length relationship with the government. For more information, a complete copy of the RFP, and application forms, contact: Mail: PRECARN Associates Inc., 30 Colonnade Road, Suite 300, Nepean, Ontario K2E 7J6 Phone: (613) 727-9576 Email: Sorry, no email address. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Jan 88 17:20 EST From: WURST%UCONNVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Subject: Address request... Walter Rolandi (ROLANDI@GOLLUM.UUCP) writes: >Does anyone know the email (or other mail) address of M. Selfridge of: > >Selfridge, M. 1980. A Process Model of Language Acquisition. Ph.D. > diss., Technical Report, 172, Dept of Computer Science, Yale > University. Mallory Selfridge is currently a member of the faculty of the University of Connecticut. He may be reached at the following address(es): U.S. Mail: Computer Science and Engineering, U-155 University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06268 CSNET: MAL@UCONN.CSNET ---------- Karl R. Wurst Computer Science and Engineering, U-155 University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06268 BITNET: WURST@UCONNVM.BITNET 'Things fall apart. It's scientific.' CSNET : WURST@UCONN.CSNET - David Byrne ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jan 88 12:17:54 GMT From: hubcap!ncrcae!gollum!rolandi@gatech.edu (rolandi) Subject: computerized rats and mazes Regarding a recent request for computerized rats and rat mazes, you might find something of interest in: Steinhauer, Gene D. (1986) Artificial Behavior: Computer Simulation of Psychological Processes. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Several attempts to contact the author were unsuccessful however. Good luck. walter rolandi rolandi@gollum.UUCP () NCR Advanced Systems, Columbia, SC u.s.carolina dept. of psychology and linguistics ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 88 16:09:36 EST From: "Thomson, Steve" Reply-to: AIList@Stripe.SRI.COM Subject: PROLOG for an IBM 3090 under CMS Does any one have direct or indirect knowledge that they would be willing to share about implementations of PROLOG under CMS? We would try to install it on a 3090-300VF under CMS release 5. Do any implementations use the vector facility? Have plans to use parallelism (when it becomes available), extended architecture (ditto)? I admit my knowledge on this is bounded above at zero. Thankyou very much. STEVE@UKCC.BITNET ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 88 10:40:26 IST From: Oren Regev Subject: Re: PROLOG for an IBM 3090 under CMS Dear Steve We do use prolog under cms here in the technion.If you specify your subjects of interest I shall try to help you. Oren Regev ------------------------------ Date: 20 Jan 88 03:03:05 GMT From: glacier!jbn@labrea.stanford.edu (John B. Nagle) Subject: Re: Scott Fahlman and BUILD I last year brought Fahlman's Build back to life, converting it from Conniver to Common Lisp, and used it as a base for work of my own in robot control. Interested researchers can contact me for more information. John Nagle ------------------------------ Date: 17 Jan 88 09:27:36 GMT From: pv@OHIO-STATE.ARPA (Vuorimaa Petri Kalevi) Subject: Re: query: table-tennis-playing robot? My mail bounced back, so here we go! To: hucka@caen.engin.umich.edu Subject: Re: query: table-tennis-playing robot? hucka@caen.engin.umich.edu (Michael Hucka): > > Within the last half-year I read an article which described a successful > robotic device capable of playing table-tennis. Unfortunately I can't > remember where I came across it. Has anyone else read about this or know > where I can get more information about it? I am interested in learning > about the research and technical issues the system's creators had to address. > You can find a short description about that particular robot from the byte-magazine (July 1987, page 37). Here in Europa we have more robots (about 5). Our robots (Finland, England, Belgium and Switzerland) are not as good as that one, but they are much smaller. So, we can and have arranged competitions between them! If want more information about European ping-pong-robots, mail me! -- Petri Vuorimaa Tampere University of Technology / Computer Systems Lab pv@tut.FI PO. BOX. 527, 33101 Tampere, Finland ------------------------------ Date: Sat 16 Jan 88 20:39:44-EST From: John R. Kender Subject: Ping-pong playing robot The robot is the creation of Russ Anderson at AT&T Bell Labs at Holmdel, NJ. He has a brief video tape showing it in action. Notable are its use of a custom VLSI chip for calculating momemts of blobs in binary images, custom modification of a PUMA arm, and the real-time handling of the blurred ellipsoidal imagery that the ball presents to standard automation cameras. Some years ago there was talk about a robot ping-pong match, but I am unaware of any opponent for it. ------------------------------ Date: 21 Jan 88 14:43:33 GMT From: Rob Elkins Reply-to: Rob Elkins Subject: Re: table tennis playing robot In article <8801180618.AA08105@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> RCSMPA::HAMILTON@gmr.COM ("William E. Hamilton, Jr.") writes: >I believe the table tennis playing robot work was done by Bell Labs at >one of their New Jersey locations (probably Murray Hill or Holmdel). I remember reading in Levi's "Hackers" about a table tennis playing robot that was built at MIT during the 60's. Whether or not this is hearsay, I'm not sure. I do remember reading that the robot confused Professor Minsky for a ping-pong ball and tried to take a swat at him. This could be hearsay as well. Rob Elkins -- ARPA: relkins@vax1.acs.udel.edu BITNET: FFO04688 AT ACSVM Live Long and Prosper! ------------------------------ End of AIList Digest ********************