Date: Sun 31 Jul 1988 17:35-EDT From: AIList Moderator Nick Papadakis Reply-To: AIList@mc.lcs.mit.edu Us-Mail: MIT Mail Stop 38-390, Cambridge MA 02139 Phone: (617) 253-2737 Subject: AIList Digest V8 #32 To: AIList@mc.lcs.mit.edu Status: R AIList Digest Monday, 1 Aug 1988 Volume 8 : Issue 32 Today's Topics: Query Responses: Cognitive Science Programs FRL Ronald Brachman's address computer chess Expert System Applications in Government ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 88 15:10:23 BST From: Ian Pratt Subject: Cognitive Science Programs There is also a Cognitive Science Master's program at Manchester University, organized jointly by the Departments of Psychology, Computer Science, Medical Biophysics, General Linguistics, and the Centre for Computational Linguistics atUMIST. ------------------------------ Date: 28 Jul 88 23:18:06 GMT From: finin%antares@burdvax.prc.unisys.com (Tim Finin) Subject: FRL In article <576@crin.crin.fr>, napoli@crin (Amedeo NAPOLI) writes: >Who can tell me the semantics of the slot "classification" in the frame based >language FRL (Goldstein, Roberts 1977) ? >This slot may be assigned with either "generic" or "individual". >What do these values actually mean ? In particuliar, is it possible to >instantiate again a frame that has "individual" in its classification slot. >Moreover, is the language still available and, if so, how can I get it ? As I recall, FRL didn't assign any semantics to the classification slot. It was, however, commonly used by applications to differentiate frames which represented generic objects from those representing individual ones. What this meant, exactly, was usually very application dependent. In fact, the difficulty in deciding what such a distinction should mean in general in FRL and similar early frame representation languages was the focus of a lot of discussion and research in the early eighties. One result was the architecture used in many representation systems which includes an object oriented descriptive component and an expression oriented assertional component. Information about individuals is then relegated to the assertional component. -- Tim Finin finin@prc.unisys.com Paoli Research Center ..!{psuvax1,sdcrdcf,cbmvax}!burdvax!finin Unisys 215-648-7446 (office) 215-386-1749 (home) PO Box 517, Paoli PA 19301 215-648-7412 (fax) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jul 88 11:49:57 EDT From: rjb@research.att.com Subject: Ronald Brachman's address Ronald Brachman is alive and well at Bell Labs, in the beautiful Garden State. His net address is rjb@research.att.com. --Ron Brachman ------------------------------ Date: 29 Jul 88 12:50:34 GMT From: ksr!breakpoint!richt@uunet.uu.net (Rich Title) Subject: computer chess >... computer chess. >Does anyone know of any good info (books, papers, authors, professors, >articles, research projects) on this subject? >--- >Rohit Gupta Internet: gupta%uxe.cso.uiuc.edu@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu >Champaign, Illinois UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uxe!gupta There's a Carnegie Mellon PhD thesis by Carl Eberling, that was published (by MIT press I think) under the title "All the Right Moves". It describes HiTech, the current world computer chess champion. That thesis in turn points to other papers on computer chess. Carnegie Mellon seems to be *the* place for computer chess. Hans Berliner, former postal chess champion, is a comp sci professor there. The techniques used in the top machines such as HiTech represent impressive engineering, but aren't what most people think of as "AI". Very fast searching, aided by hardware that generates and evaluates moves in parallel and evaluates positions in parallel. - Rich ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jul 88 09:52:52 EDT From: Wm A. Carpenter Subject: Expert System Applications in Government The IEEE Computer Society (1730 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036-1903) and The MITRE Corporation have sponsored the Expert Systems in Government (ESIG) Conference for the past three years (1985, 1986, 1987). In 1989, the conference title is being changed to AI Systems in Government (AISIG). Copies of the previous conference proceedings can be obtained from the IEEE. A call for papers for AISIG'89 has been issued. Papers are due 1 Sept 1988 (address: AISIG'89, MS W418, The MITRE Corporation, 7525 Colshire Dr., McLean, VA 22102). AISIG'89 will be held in Washington, D.C. on 27-31 March 1989. The theme of AISIG'89 will be: Intelligent Systems--Realizing the Payoff. * * Wm A. Carpenter * The MITRE Corporation :: ------------------------------ End of AIList Digest ********************