Date: Mon 10 Oct 1988 15:52-EDT From: AIList Moderator Nick Papadakis Reply-To: AIList@AI.AI.MIT.EDU Us-Mail: MIT LCS, 545 Tech Square, Rm# NE43-504, Cambridge MA 02139 Phone: (617) 253-6524 Subject: AIList Digest V8 #101 To: AIList@AI.AI.MIT.EDU Status: R AIList Digest Tuesday, 11 Oct 1988 Volume 8 : Issue 101 Queries and Responses: MicroExplorer vs. MacIvory (still/again) address Xerox PARC TICOM Info on Automatic Reasoning Optical Character Recognition knowledge acquisition info Q1? A New AI Algebra? ES for Statistical Analysis - Summary of Responses Qualitative Reasoning mail-list Philip E. Slatter Address Request ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 20 Sep 88 16:57:35 GMT From: sm.unisys.com!csun!polyslo!mshapiro@oberon.usc.edu (Joe AI) Subject: MicroExplorer vs. MacIvory (still/again) Well? Well? About three weeks ago I posted a request polling any users who have had experience with the Texas Instruments MicroExplorer and/or the Symbolics MacIvory machines. I received a number of replies -- all of them being requests to post the results. Nobody has sent any experienced based opinions. I understand there are some MacIvory beta units out there, and I know that TI has been shipping for some time. If you have any light that you can shed on on this, I'd appreciate you following up to this article. I'd really like to see a good discussion ensue. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Sep 88 12:53:18 MET From: Hans Borgman Subject: query: address Xerox PARC In a recent issue of AI-List a review of the latest Spang Robinson Report was included. In it there was a discussion on Xerox PARC and their research on how people "actually do design-work". Since this is very close to my research, I would like to get in touch with the people at Xerox PARC. Who knows the name anyone involved at Xerox PARC (or elsewhere!) and his/her (Email-)address? Thanks in advance Hans Borgman Asst. Prof. Information Sciences Erasmus University Rotterdam P.O. Box 1738 3000 DR Rotterdam The Netherlands BITNET: hborgman@hroeur1 ------------------------------ Date: 26 September 88, 21:05:10 From: Ramu Kannan KANNAN at SUVM Subject: TICOM I am interested in expert systems that can be used for evaluating internal controls. Does anyone know the status of TICOM, a computer assisted method of modeling and evaluating internal control systems? Has it been fully developed and if so, what are it capabilities? Are there any other packages? Ramu Kannan Bitnet address: KANNAN@SUVM ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Sep 88 12:47:57 EST From: munnari!nswitgould.oz.au!osborn@uunet.UU.NET (Tom Osborn) Subject: Re: Info on Automatic Reasoning Contact A/Prof Graham Wrightson (now) at Newcastle Uni. (probably graham@nucs.oz). The network to Newcastle is very very very poor so you may have to call him by phone. Alternatively, get a copy of 'AI in Australia' from A/Prof John Debenham at UTS. AIIA list all AI activities in oz by category and researcher. (A/Prof J K Debenham, School of Computing Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123 BROADWAY 2007.) Cheers, Tomasso. ------------------------------ Date: 28 Sep 88 02:55:49 GMT From: glacier!jbn@labrea.stanford.edu (John B. Nagle) Subject: Re: Optical Character Recognition Kurtzweil and Palantir both build special-purpose machines to do general multi-font character recognition. Their algorithms are proprietary. The Palantir unit is said to have about 300 MIPS of computational power inside. Doing this badly is easy. Doing it well is very, very hard. John Nagle ------------------------------ Date: 28 Sep 88 20:36:09 GMT From: gao@bu-cs.bu.edu (Yong Gao) Subject: knowledge acquisition info More requests! Could somebody tell me where to order proceedings for: 1. the 5th Machine Intelligence workshop 2. the Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge Based Systems Workshop, Banff, Canada, 1986 and 1987. Thanks. Yong Gao (gao@bu-cs.bu.edu) Dept. of Computer Science Boston University ------------------------------ Date: 29 Sep 88 06:12:14 GMT From: portal!cup.portal.com!spl@uunet.uu.net Subject: Q1? A New AI Algebra? I read in Science News (September 3, 1988) that Brian Williams of MIT has developed a new mathematics for use in AI called "Q1". Has anyone received any definitions of this "new algebra"? I would be very interested in any information about this Q1 that can be passed along to me at the following UseNet address. Thanks in advance, Shawn P. Legrand +-----------------------------+ | spl@cup.portal.com | | or | | ...sun!cup.portal.com!spl | +-----------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: 4 Oct 88 16:49:00 GMT From: goldfain@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu Subject: Re: Q1? A New AI Algebra? This was presented in a paper at AAAI-88, so you can get the details from the proceedings. Brian won one of the "best paper" awards presented by the editors of the conference proceedings. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Sep 88 09:12 CDT From: Subject: ES for Statistical Analysis - Summary of Responses To all those who sent me mail requesting a summary of responses I received for my query on Commercial Expert Systems for Statistical Analysis, here is a summary of all the responses I have received so far: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From: Todd.Kaufmann@NL.CS.CMU.EDU To: KDM2520@TAMSIGMA.BITNET Subject: re: Expert Systems for Statistical Analysis There is a program called REX, which is an expert system for regression analysis. See the books "Artificial Intelligence & Statistics", edited by Wm. A Gale, and also "Discovering Causal Structure: artificial intelligence, philosophy of science, and statistical modeling" by Clark Glymour, Peter Spirtes, Kevin Kelly, & ?. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From: Dick (R.D.) Peacocke Subject: Expert Systems for Statistical Analysis Sender: Dick (R.D.) Peacocke A company called KnowledgeWorks has developed " an exploratory data analysis/knowledge acquisition package called TEASE -- jointly funded by the National Research Council (Canada). TEASE has been used to conduct a variety of data analysis tasks leading to rule induction" ...."the preliminary step in expert systems construction." The quotes are from their advertising blurb. We've started to use the system a liitle bit on some software quality and hardware manufacturing data. TEASE isn't really an expert system for statistical analysis, more the reverse, statistical analysis for an expert system, but I thought you might be interested anyway. For more details contact KnowledgeWorks Research Systems Ltd. 57 Stevenson Ave. Ottawa CANADA K1Z 6M9 phone (613) 725-0633 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From: Dick (R.D.) Peacocke Subject: Another ES for Statistical Analysis Sender: Dick (R.D.) Peacocke At AAAI '88 a "software user consultant for statistics" was mentioned by Prof. Raj Reddy in his Presidential Address. He was listing some AI achievements, and included this system in the list. It's under development at AT&T apparently - you might like to contact them or Reddy to get more details. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Many of the other responses I received were information regarding William Gale's book. I thank all the readers who responded to my request and I will appreciate any additional information available on this. Thank you again. Murali Krishnamurthi MURALI@TAMLSR (BITNET) Knowledge Based Systems Lab MURALI@LSR.TAMU.EDU (ARPANET) Texas A&M University KDM2520@TAMSIGMA (BITNET) ------------------------------ Date: 30 Sep 88 09:49:38 GMT From: mcvax!hp4nl!swivax!bert@uunet.uu.net (Bert Bredeweg) Subject: Qualitative Reasoning mail-list I have been told that there is a mailing list for Qualitative Reasoning (or that it is being set up). Can anyone give me more information about this (like: the correct e-mail address; how do I become a member; etc) ? Thanks in advance, Bert Bredeweg University of Amsterdam Department of Social Science Informatics (S.W.I.) Herengracht 196 1016 BS Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Phone: +31-20-245365 ext. 13 E-mail: bert@swivax.UUCP ------------------------------ Date: 3 Oct 88 04:01:04 GMT From: fordjm@byuvax.bitnet Subject: Philip E. Slatter Address Request Can anyone supply me with an address (e-mail or regular mail) for Philip E. Slatter of Telecomputing plc, Oxford? [Dr. Slatter is the author of Building Expert Systems: Cognitive Emulation (1987).] Thanks, John M. Ford Brigham Young University 131 Starcrest Drive fordjm@byuvax.bitnet Orem, UT 84058 USA (801) 224-3974 ------------------------------ End of AIList Digest ********************