Date: Sat 20 Aug 1988 00:04-EDT From: AIList Moderator Nick Papadakis Reply-To: AIList@mc.lcs.mit.edu Us-Mail: MIT LCS, 545 Tech Square, Rm# NE43-504, Cambridge MA 02139 Phone: (617) 253-6524 Subject: AIList Digest V8 #60 To: AIList@mc.lcs.mit.edu Status: R AIList Digest Saturday, 20 Aug 1988 Volume 8 : Issue 60 Queries and Responses: Where should she go? (Universities for Machine Learning) public-domain computer chess program Sorbothane (AIList v8 #48) Computer Chess program request/reference request AI in Engineering Lucid Lisp users mailing list ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 17 Aug 88 17:29:00 GMT From: cca!mirror!rayssd!raybed2!applicon!bambi!webb!webb@husc6.harvard .edu Subject: Where should she go? A friend of mine wants to get her PhD in Computer Science, specializing in the Machine Learning aspect of Artificial Intelligence. She has been to the library and collected a list of likely schools, but the list is too long for her to apply to all the schools on it. Accordingly, she asked me if I would ask the net for suggestions. If you wanted to study machine learning, where would you go and why? Some of the schools she is currently considering are: Stanford MIT U. California @ Berkeley U. California @ San Diego Chapel Hill, North Carolina U. Illinois, Chamapane/Urbana U. Massachusetts @ Amherst U. Pennsylvania Carniege-Mellon University Do you have any comments on the PhD programs at any of these institutions? The Masters Degree program? Are there any other colleges you would recommend? She would appreciate hearing from anyone who has finished, or is currently working on a similar degree. Any information at all will be appreciated. Please reply to me, as she does not have access to Usenet. Thanks very much. Peter Webb. {allegra|decvax|harvard|yale|mirror}!ima!applicon!webb, {mit-eddie|raybed2|spar|ulowell|sun}!applicon!webb, webb@applicon.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Aug 88 11:14:19 EDT From: kanderse@sam (Kurt Andersen) Subject: Re: public-domain computer chess program The program sounds like the one published in BYTE many years ago. I found in one of BYTE's first books called something like The Best of BYTE (the name be wrong, I saw it 4-5 years ago). The book had the full original CDC Cyber 6600 pascal source listings along with four articles describing how it works. I hope that help. Kurt:-) ------------------------------ Date: 19 Aug 88 15:49:00 EDT From: Nahum (N.) Goldmann Subject: Re: Sorbothane (AIList v8 #48) This is in addition to information from John B. Nagle. Sorbothane actually is a British product (also marketed in the US). Contact BTR Development Services Ltd., Horninglow Rd., Burton-on-Trent, Staffs. DE13 0SN United Kingdom. The contact there is Richard Burton, Tel. 0283-31155. Telex 34419. Send him best regards from me. To the best of my knowledge, somebody in Japan already uses Sorbothane for car-mounted CD players and alike. It has excellent shock/vibration absorption properties, but has some temperature and other environmental problems. As any vibration/shock isolator, it is tricky to design in, plus its liquidity makes it an additional challenge. I'm certain Richard will provide you with further information. Accelerometers are used to measure vibration. Their characteristics are selected based on the problem explored. Look under Vibration in your library or contact specialists at Southempton University in the UK (this is a world class school). Greetings and love. Nahum Goldmann (613)763-2329 e-mail: ------------------------------ Date: 19 Aug 88 15:05 EST From: STERRITT%SDEVAX.decnet@ge-crd.arpa Subject: Computer Chess program request/reference request In AI-List vol. 8, number 58, Antti Ylikoski writes: > The magazine Creative Computing published a large (several thousand > lines long) chess program written in Pascal and running in a large Cyber > computer I think in the end of the 70's or in the beginning of the 80's. > I recall the article and the program were written by one of the famous > computer chess people, possibly by Hans Berliner. Does anyone have the exact reference? Infinitely (well, almost) better, does anyone have this code online so they could mail it to me? Or any other chess implementation, in any highlevel (i.e. not Assembly, Forth or Basic) language? thanks a million (nodes), chris sterritt sterritt%sdevax.decnet@ge-crd.arpa (on arpanet) ------------------------------ Date: 19 Aug 88 15:02 PDT From: Sanjay Mittal Subject: AI in Engineering >>Sriram asked about the need for an International Society for AI in Engineering. Here's a response<< I think we already have too many societies (ACM, IEEE, AAAI, ASME, SME, Cog Sci, socialist, capitalist, communist, just-plain-wedged, etc) and an even larger number of journals and conferences. Societies are good for providing a forum via journals and conferences for a group of researchers and practitioners to share ideas, problems, etc. However, as with all societies they last as long as there are some common shared problems, goals and visions. . Note that there is NO Society of all engineering branches, largely I suspect because there'll be less to unify than divide the members. And it is not at all clear that there is more in common between AI in Electrical and AI in Mech than there is between AI in Medicine and AI in Mech. One could make a strong argument that most of what is common is AI (theories, tools, techniques). But we already have far too many AI conferences and journals not to mention AAAI and a host of national AI societies. [There already are at least two journals that have AI, International, and Eng in their title and I counted at least four conferences in US alone this year that had the same combination]. Do we want more?? One strong no for what its worth! ---- Sanjay ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Aug 88 10:03:33 EST From: munnari!trlamct.oz.au!andrew@uunet.UU.NET (Andrew Jennings) Subject: Lucid Lisp users mailing list Sometime ago I was on a Lucid Lisp user's mailing list. Now I seem to have lost contact with it. Does anybody know how to get in touch again ? 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