Date: Fri 1 Jul 1988 22:48-EDT From: AIList Moderator Nick Papadakis Reply-To: AIList@AI.AI.MIT.EDU Us-Mail: MIT Mail Stop 38-390, Cambridge MA 02139 Phone: (617) 253-2737 Subject: AIList Digest V8 #1 To: AIList@AI.AI.MIT.EDU Status: R AIList Digest Saturday, 2 Jul 1988 Volume 8 : Issue 1 Today's Topics: Queries: Contact at AI Depart. of Fujitsu Labs in Japan Wanted: Jan 88 issue of AI Expert Response to: gardening systems Proposed robotics list Response to: Math discussion list? (2 messages) Expert systems on PCs Tangram, magic squares Digital answering machines Translator systems ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 15 Jun 88 17:54:45 GMT From: mcvax!inria!vmucnam!daniel@uunet.uu.net (Daniel Lippmann) Subject: contact at AI Depart. of Fujitsu Labs in Japan Anybody there knowing how to contact Mr Kumon Kouichi working in the AI Depart. of Fujitsu Labs in Kawasaki (Japan). All mails to kddlab!titcca!flab!kumon failed . Every electronic or even postal address will be welcome. thanks in advance daniel (...!mcvax!inria!vmucnam!daniel) ------------------------------ Date: 27 Jun 88 09:57:10 GMT From: dowjone!gregb@uunet.uu.net (Greg_Baber) Subject: Wanted: Jan 88 issue of AI Expert I am offering $10 for a January 1988 issue of AI Expert in good condition. Please respond by E-mail only. -- Reply to: Gregory S. Baber Voice: (609) 520-5077 Dow Jones & Co., Inc. E-mail: ..princeton!dowjone!gregb Box 300 Princeton, New Jersey 08543-0300 ------------------------------ Date: 29 Jun 88 16:32:42 GMT From: ulysses!sfmag!sfsup!saal@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (S.Saal) Subject: Response to: gardening systems In article <5968@pyr.gatech.EDU>, parvis@gitpyr.UUCP writes: > I would like to know whether anyone knows about a computer program that > could help me with my gardening. I'm interested in all kinds of computer > programs either for indoor or outdoor running on any personal computer. > -- parvis@gitpyr.gatech.edu The mail-order bookstore Capability's Books offers about half a dozen computer programs that design vegetable and flower gardens and can be set up to remind you of weekly chores. I don't know of any that diagnose pest problems. Capability's prices are reasonable, they offer a discount on large orders, and a letter will get you excellent personal service. Their address is: Capability's Books, Box 114, Highway 46, Deer Park, WI 54007 from Carrie, via Sam Saal "A great garden is never completed, merely abandoned." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jun 88 21:51:11 PDT From: John B. Nagle Subject: Proposed robotics list I previously asked if a robotics mailing list existed, and if not, was there interest in starting one. I have now received seven replies, none indicating the existence of such a list, and all interested in subscribing to one. I would like to see such a list created. Personally, I would like to see a moderated list, along the lines of AILIST, in hopes of keeping the percentage of useful content high enough to keep the information useful to those doing robotics research. Alternatively, it could be a USENET newsgroup, perhaps gatewayed to the non-UNIX machines by appropriate sites. What is the sense of the AILIST community? Choose one: - A robotics list is not necessary. - A moderated list is preferable. - An unmoderated list is preferable. Reply to me, (jbn@glacier.stanford.edu) and I will summarize. John Nagle [Editor's note - The current hookup between AIList and usenet has been a great source of trouble for me, due in part to the fact that the usenet side is unmoderated while the internet/bitnet side is. I currently perform the forwarding by hand, with little opportunity to prune headers and such - to the great consternation of many members of the usenet community. I am currently looking for (or considering writing) software to handle this task, but until some exists I could not recommend another cross-net list using the same mechanism as AIList. Unless, of course, you enjoy three-legged races ... - nick ] ------------------------------ Date: 30 Jun 88 13:56:48 GMT From: sunybcs!nobody@rutgers.edu Reply-to: sunybcs!rapaport@rutgers.edu (William J. Rapaport) Subject: Response to: Math discussion list? In a previous article Thanasis Kehagias writes: > >a while ago, people mentioned the existence of discussion lists on math and >science. can you point me to the email adresses of the above? Try sci.logic and sci.math; they're not moderated, so you can just post news to them directly. ------------------------------ Date: 30 Jun 88 14:50:30 GMT From: steve@hubcap.clemson.edu ("Steve" Stevenson) Subject: Response to: Math discussion list? >From a previous article by Thanasis Kehagias: > a while ago, people mentioned the existence of discussion lists on math and > science. can you point me to the email adresses of the above? There are several math lists on usenet. Check with usenet folks. They are not moderated so you will have to find a way to transmit into uucp. Try spaf@purdue. -- Steve (really "D. E.") Stevenson steve@hubcap.clemson.edu Department of Computer Science, (803)656-5880.mabell Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906 ------------------------------ Date: 30 Jun 88 16:04:55 GMT From: parvis@pyr.gatech.edu (FULLNAME) Subject: expert systems on PCs I'm doing research on the usability and feasibility of expert systems on personal computers such as the Apple Macintosh and the IBM PC. There are certainly limitations due to memory size and time efficiency. What are typical problems when developing and/or using a PC based expert system? What do users (not only developers) think about expert systems on PCs? What domain solutions are successfully realized on a PC? Are the users satisfied with the features and efficiency or are such systems 'just expensive toys'? The main goal of this survey is to get an overview of how useful and successful expert system implementations on PCs are. Any contribution and comments are appreciated. I plan to post a summary of the results on this newsgroup. Thanks, Parvis. -- parvis@gitpyr.gatech.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Jul 88 00:48 EDT From: AIList Moderator Nick Papadakis Subject: tangram, magic squares A Taiwanese reader, Dragon Y.Y. <3V6B0001%TWNMOE10.BITNET> writes that he recently was told of a solution to the tangram puzzle in an AI-related magazine done by someone at the University of Maryland named Deausch (Deutsch, perhaps?). Unfortunately, he has been unable to find the actual reference. I conducted a brief computer search that failed to yield anything. Can any AIList readers provide further information? Does anyone know of any other related work? - nick ------------------------------ Date: 1 Jul 88 20:52:28 GMT From: rochester!ur-tut!sunybcs!krishnan@cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu (Ganapathy Krishnan) Subject: Digital answering machines Does anyone know of vendors who manufacture digital answering machines that can store a telephone message on disk, perform rudimentary speech recognition, and say mail the message to the right person. Sounds like a tall order !! If you know of anything that comes close to this, can you send me electronic mail ? Thanks, krishnan UUCP : {cmc12,hao,harpo}!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!krishnan ...{allegra,decvax,watmath}!sunybcs!krishnan CSNET : krishnan@cs.buffalo.edu BITNET : krishnan@sunybcs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Jul 88 19:32:44 From: UZR515%DBNRHRZ1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Subject: translator systems H E L P ! ========= Dear subscriber, I am designing a Language Translator which should translate English Computer Text Books into persian. Indeed, everybody knows that there are a lot of works on automatic translation of "English-" texts into many different languages such as german, chineese, arabic, etc. It means that the "Analysing"-part of such a translator system is more than n times (naturally in different manners) designed and implemented. Now I will be very pleased to become information from any person interested in automatic translation of English texts (into any other language). Specially I wish to be informed where and how can I locate the followings: 1. Available translation systems from LISTSERV@FINHUTC or any other possibility to access such a system ? 2. A multi-lingua translator system such as EUROTRA ? 3. Fonts for persian or at least arabic characters ? Your prompt attention would be most appreciated. Yours sincerely, Hooshang Mehrjerdian Bergmeisterstueck 1 5300 Bonn 3 West Germany Tel: (0228)-733358 ======= ------------------------------ End of AIList Digest ********************