Date: Fri 26 Feb 1988 21:52-PST From: AIList Moderator Kenneth Laws Reply-To: AIList@KL.SRI.COM Us-Mail: SRI Int., 333 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025 Phone: (415) 859-6467 Subject: AIList V6 #39 - Queries, BBS Abstracts To: AIList@KL.SRI.COM Status: RO AIList Digest Saturday, 27 Feb 1988 Volume 6 : Issue 39 Today's Topics: Queries - Marilyn Dee & Pustejovsky & Softsmart & Phase Linear Inc. & Narrowing & Driving a Mac Serial Interface with Xlisp, Experlisp & Legal Reasoning in AI & Genetic Algorithms & Workshop on Knowledge Compilation & File Formats for Image Data & BBS Call for Commentators ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 21 Feb 88 23:49:00 GMT From: goldfain@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu Subject: Address Requested Can anyone electronically mail (email) me the "physical" mail (pmail) address of Marilyn Dee and Associates (an AI head-hunter service) ? Thanks much, - Mark Goldfain ------------------------------ Date: Wed 24 Feb 88 10:39:28-EST From: Dori Wells Subject: Pustejovsky Will the person who requested an email address, etc. for James Pustejovsky please send me your name, etc. again, your previous message was deleted. Thanks. ------------------------------ Date: Fri 26 Feb 88 13:29:37-PST From: Wei-Han Chu Subject: where about of Softsmart Does anybody know the whereabout of a company named Softsmart. As of a year ago they were selling a version of Smalltalk-80 that runs on an IBM PC-AT that they oem from Xerox PARC. The last time I called them for support their phone has been disconnected with no forwarding number. ------------------------------ Date: 24 Feb 88 16:20:44 GMT From: hubcap!ncrcae!gollum!rolandi@gatech.edu (rolandi) Subject: Phase Linear Inc. Can anyone provide information on Phase Linear Inc? On a product they are reported to have called KAM (Knowledge Acquisition Module)? walter rolandi rolandi@gollum.UUCP () NCR Advanced Systems, Columbia, SC u.s.carolina dept. of psychology and linguistics ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Feb 88 09:10:45 EST From: meadows%nrl-css.arpa@nrl-css.arpa (Catherine A. Meadows) Subject: request for info on narrowing Can anybody out there tell me of any good introductory references on narrowing? Thanks in advance, Catherine Meadows Code 5593 Naval Research Laboratory Washington, DC 20375 meadows@nrl-css.arpa ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Feb 88 06:16 PST From: nesliwa%nasamail@ames.arc.nasa.gov (NANCY E. SLIWA) Subject: Driving a MAC serial interface with Xlisp, experlisp I have been attempting to help a group of high school students here in the NORSTAR robotics team interface their mini-mover robot arms to a Macintosh serial port using Lisp. They currently have an interface in Turbo pascal, but would like to use lisp for some collision-avoidance software they're writing. They have Xlisp and Experlisp, but not full documentation for either. Any Mac lisp experts able to offer some advice? Thanks. Nancy Sliwa nesliwa%nasamail@ames.arpa 804/865-3871 ------------------------------ Date: 22 Feb 88 19:53:39 GMT From: rutgers!ucbvax.berkeley.edu!ames!esl!trwspp!spp3!gpearson%sdcsva x@ucsd.edu (Glen Pearson) Reply-to: gpearson@spp3.UUCP (Glen Pearson) Subject: Query: Legal Reasoning in AI I heard of a conference on legal reasoning using AI techniques, but I don't remember the time or place. Can anyone out there give me details? Thanks much, Glen trwrb!spp!spp3!gpearson@ucbvax.berkeley.edu 1180 Kern Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94086 (408) 773-5021 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1988 17:03:30 LCL From: Kislaya Prasad Subject: AIList V6 (Genetic Algorithms) While only superficially familiar with the current Genetic Algorithms literature I remember reading a paper by Holland a few years back which I found very interesting: Holland, J. (1970) "Logical Theory of Adaptive Systems", in A.W. Burks (Ed.) Essays in Cellular Automata, University of Illinois Press. (Remember Cellular Automata?) My question to those familiar with the literature is: How does this work of Holland relate to the recent literature? I don't see it referred to at all. Is there a strong reason for this, or just that it is now old stuff? It seems to me that this paper had many of the fundamental ideas of today (especially with respect to parallel implementations). ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Feb 88 05:24:31 +0100 From: mcvax!lasso!ralph@uunet.UU.NET (Ralph P. Sobek) Subject: Workshop on Knowledge Compilation, 1986 Does anybody have a reference for the following: Proceedings Workshop on Knowledge Compilation Otter Crest, OR 1986 And what has happened since? Thanks in advance, Ralph P. Sobek | UUCP: uunet!mcvax!inria!lasso!ralph, or | ralph@lasso.uucp LAAS-CNRS | Internet: ralph@lasso.laas.fr, or 7, avenue du Colonel-Roche | ralph%lasso.laas.fr@uunet.UU.NET F-31077 Toulouse Cedex, FRANCE | ARPA: sobek@shadow.Berkeley.EDU (forwarded\ +(33) 61-33-62-66 | BITNET/EARN: SOBEK@FRMOP11 \ to UUCP ) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ------------------------------ Date: 24 Feb 88 20:08:20 GMT From: spar!hunt@decwrl.dec.com (Neil Hunt) Subject: File formats for image data ? A question for you vision researchers and graphics wizards: what file formats are you using for transferring and storing your image data ? We are using a format called `picpac' which I believe originated from CalTech; we are looking for something more comprehensive to use. Some of the features to be considered are: Storage of image data in 1D (histograms etc), 2D (simple images), 3D (image sequences, sets of images, etc) and higher dimensionalities (sequences of sets of multispectral images...). Typed pixels: integer and floating point; unsigned and signed, packed and unpacked, RGB, CMY, CMYB, IR-vis-UV, 1, 8, 16 and 32 bits, etc. etc. Storage of image data in non array format (list of points of interest in sparse images, compressed formats, etc.) Recording of arbitrary additional data: colour maps (both predefined and locally specified), camera pixel size, aspect ratio, date, time, condition, title, subject, pre- and post-processing, etc. Efficient storage and transfer (ie: the PostScript format is not ideal, with ASCII pixel values). Indirection: the ability to make a new image being some subset of another image, without having to copy the actual data. Please let me know what format you are using at the moment, what you are doing with it, and what other features we should consider if we decide to invent our own format ? Neil/. hunt@spar.slb.com ...{amdahl|decwrl|hplabs}!spar!hunt (415) 496 4708 ------------------------------ Date: 22 Feb 88 18:34:30 GMT From: mind!harnad@princeton.edu (Stevan Harnad) Subject: BBS Call for Commentators The following are the abstracts of 2 forthcoming articles on which BBS [Behavioral and Brain Sciences -- An international, interdisciplinary journal of Open Peer Commentary, published by Cambridge University Press] invites self-nominations by potential commentators. (Please note that the editorial office must exercise selectivity among the nominations received so as to ensure a strong and balanced cross-specialty spectrum of eligible commentators. The procedure is explained after the abstract.) ----- ABSTRACT #1: Numerical Competence in Animals: Definitional Issues, Current Evidence and a New Research Agenda Hank Davis & Rachel Perusse University of Guelph Numerical competence in animals has enjoyed renewed interest recently, but there is still confusion about the definition of numerical processes. "Counting" has been applied to phenomena remote from its meaning in the human case. We propose a consistent theoretical framework and vocabulary for evaluating numerical competence. Relative numerousness judgments, "subitizing," counting and estimation are the principal processes involved. Ordinality, cardinality and transitivity judgments also play a role. Our framework can handle a variety of recent experimental situations. Some evidence of generalization and transfer is needed to demonstrate higher order ability such as counting; otherwise one only has "protocounting" even if all other alternatives have been excluded. ----- ABSTRACT #2: Developmental Explanation and the Ontogeny of Birdsong Nature/Nurture Redux Timothy Johnston University of North Carolina, Greensboro The view that behavior can be partitioned into inherited and acquired components remains widespread and influential, especially in the study of birdsong development. This target article criticizes the growing tendency to diagnose songs, elements of songs, or precursors of songs (song templates) as either innate or learned on the basis of isolation-rearing experiments. Such experiments offer only a crude analysis of the contribution of experience to song development and provide no information at all about genetic effects, despite arguments to the contrary. Because developmental questions are so often posed in terms of the learned/innate dichotomy, the possible role of nonobvious contributions to song development has been largely ignored. An alternative approach, based on Daniel Lehrman's interactionist theory of development, gives a better sense of the issues that remain to be addressed in studies of song development and provides a more secure conceptual foundation. ----- This is an experiment in using the Net to find eligible commentators for articles in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal of "open peer commentary," published by Cambridge University Press, with its editorial office in Princeton NJ. BBS publishes important and controversial interdisciplinary articles in psychology, neuroscience, behavioral biology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, linguistics and philosophy. Articles are rigorously refereed and, if accepted, are circulated to a large number of potential commentators around the world in the various specialties on which the article impinges. Their 1000-word commentaries are then co-published with the target article as well as the author's response to each. The commentaries consist of analyses, elaborations, complementary and supplementary data and theory, criticisms and cross-specialty syntheses. Commentators are selected by the following means: (1) BBS maintains a computerized file of over 3000 BBS Associates; the size of this group is increased annually as authors, referees, commentators and nominees of current Associates become eligible to become Associates. Many commentators are selected from this list. (2) The BBS editorial office does informal as well as formal computerized literature searches on the topic of the target articles to find additional potential commentators from across specialties and around the world who are not yet BBS Associates. (3) The referees recommend potential commentators. (4) The author recommends potential commentators. We now propose to add the following source for selecting potential commentators: The abstract of the target article will be posted in the relevant newsgroups on the net. Eligible individuals who judge that they would have a relevant commentary to contribute should contact the editor at the e-mail address indicated at the bottom of this message, or should write by normal mail to: Stevan Harnad Editor Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20 Nassau Street, Room 240 Princeton NJ 08542 (phone: 609-921-7771) "Eligibility" usually means being an academically trained professional contributor to one of the disciplines mentioned earlier, or to related academic disciplines. The letter should indicate the candidate's general qualifications as well as their basis for wishing to serve as commentator for the particular target article in question. It is preferable also to enclose a Curriculum Vitae. (This self-nomination format may also be used by those who wish to become BBS Associates, but they must also specify a current Associate who knows their work and is prepared to nominate them; where no current Associate is known by the candidate, the editorial office will send the Vita to approporiate Associates to ask whether they would be prepared to nominate the candidate.) BBS has rapidly become a widely read read and highly influential forum in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. A recent recalculation of BBS's "impact factor" (ratio of citations to number of articles) in the American Psychologist [41(3) 1986] reports that already in its fifth year of publication (1982) BBS's impact factor had risen to become the highest of all psychology journals indexed as well as 3rd highest of all 1300 journals indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index and 50th of all 3900 journals indexed in the Science Citation index, which indexes all the scientific disciplines. Potential commentators should send their names, addresses, a description of their general qualifications and their basis for seeking to comment on this target article in particular to the address indicated earlier or to the following e-mail address: harnad@mind.princeton.edu [Subscription information for BBS is available from Harry Florentine at Cambridge University Press: 800-221-4512] -- Stevan Harnad harnad@mind.princeton.edu (609)-921-7771 ------------------------------ End of AIList Digest ********************