Date: Tue, 13 Aug 85 18:04 EST To: irdis at vpi Subject: Volume 1 No. 1 of IRList Reply-to: IRList%vpi@csnet-relay.arpa (or fox@vpics1 on BITNET) US-Mail: Dr. Edward A. Fox, Dept. of Computer Science, VPI&SU (also called Virginia Tech), Blacksburg VA 24061 Phone: (703) 961-5113 or 6931 Subject: IRList Digest V1 #1 IRList Digest Tuesday, 13 Aug 1985 Volume 1 : Issue 1 Today's Topics: Editorial - Kick-Off Message Call for Papers - Intelligent Tutoring Systems - Office Information Systems Research Interests - Classification, Biomedicine - Learning Workstation and Interfacing Query - linkers list Seminar Announcement - Electronic Encyclopedia ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ed Fox Date: August 13, 1985 Subject: Kick-Off Message Hi! At long last the first issue is being sent out! I have enough in hand for a few more issues, but will soon need additional materials. Please contribute freely so this will be a success! There are now 128 addresses in the distribution list, some of which are redistribution lists to groups of people, so if everyone contributes at least every few months, IRList should come out >= once/week. As time goes on I hope to add in features so people with text editor type mail interfaces can find interesting parts more quickly. That is something that many of you may have suggestions, so please share your ideas. ------- From: Elliot Soloway Date: Fri, 19 Jul 85 13:43:38 EDT Subject: Call for Papers To: ai-ed@SUMEX-AIM [Forwarded from ai-ed@sumex-aim, the AI in Education Bulletin Board. - Ed] CALL FOR PAPERS Research in the development of Intelligent Tutoring Systems has been growing over the past few years. To bring together the best work in one volume, we are organizing a special issue of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence. All submissions will be stringently reviewed and selected for publication according to the usual standards of the Journal. Topics appropriate for this special issue include: - Knowledge representations tailored for use in an Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) - Architectures for ITSs - Methods for building student models - Methods for diagnosing students' bugs and misconceptions - Tutoring strategies - The use of natural language - Design of the human-computer interface - Case studies of ITSs - Psychological research relevant to the construction of ITSs Guest editors for this special issue are: Dr. Elliot Soloway Dr. William J. Clancey Dept. of Computer Science Stanford Knowledge Systems Laboratory Yale University 701 Welch Road, Building C P.O. Box 2158 Palo Alto, CA 94304 New Haven, Ct. 06520 SOLOWAY@YALE CLANCEY@SUMEX Please send manuscripts to one of the above editors by Feb. 15, 1986. ------- Date: Thu, 8 Aug 85 02:48 EDT From: Carl Hewitt Subject: Call for papers: OIS-86 [Forwarded from AIList Bulletin Board - Ed] ****************************************************** * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * THIRD ACM CONFERENCE ON * * OFFICE INFORMATION SYSTEMS: OIS-86 * * * * October 6-8, 1986 * * Biltmore Plaza Hotel * * Providence, RI * ****************************************************** General Chair: Carl Hewitt, Program Chair: Stanley Zdonik, MIT Brown University Treasurer: Gerald Barber, Local Arrangements: Andrea Skarra, Gold Hill Computers Brown University An interdisciplinary conference on issues relating to office information systems sponsored by ACM/SIGOA in cooperation with Brown University and the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Submissions from the following fields are solicited: Anthropology Artificial Intelligence Cognitive Science Computer Science Economics Management Science Psychology Sociology Topics appropriate for this conference include (but are not restricted to) the following: Technologies including Display, Voice, Telecommunications, Print, etc. Human Interfaces Deployment and Evaluation System Design and Construction Goals and Values Knowledge Bases and Reasoning Distributed Services and Applications Indicators and Models Needs and Organizational Factors Impact of Computer Integrated Manufacturing Unpublished papers of up to 5000 words (20 double-spaced pages) are sought. The first page of each paper must include the following information: title, the author's name, affiliations, complete mailing address, telephone number and electronic mail address where applicable, a maximum 150-words abstract of the paper, and up to five keywords (important for the correct classification of the paper). If there are multiple authors, please indicate who will present the paper at OIS-86 if the paper is accepted. Proceeedings will be distributed at the conference and will later be available from ACM. Selected papers will be published in the ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems. Please send eight (8) copies of the paper to: Prof. Stan Zdonick OIS-86 Program Chair Computer Science Department Brown University P.O. Box 1910 Providence, RI 02912 DIRECT INQUIRIES TO: Rita Desormeau (401) 863-3302 ****************************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for Paper Submission: February 1, 1986 Notification of Acceptance: April 30, 1986 Deadline for Final Camera-Ready Copy: July 1, 1986 Conference Dates: October 6-8, 1986 ------- From: Roy Rada CSB Date: Thu, 18 Jul 85 00:15:10 edt To: IRList%vpi@CSNET-RELAY Ed, I'm glad to hear about IRList. I work with several people on "Building Classification Structures for Biomedical Literature" and have forwarded your note to them and some others. Congratulations. Roy Rada ------- From: michon%sprite.DEC@DECWRL Date: Friday, 19 Jul 1985 12:30:24-PDT Subject: please put me on the Information Retrevial mailing list My name is Brian Michon, I'm with DEC's Educational Service's R&D group. I'm currently working on a Advanced Learning Workstation project My focus is on user interfaces for the direct manipulation of video (disc, tape, camera, digital), graphics and text. ------- From: WEYER@HPLABS Date: 18 Jul 1985 0724-PDT Subject: Re: Welcome to IRList yes. please include me on irlist. i've also forwarded it to steve gano here at hplabs, and to robert crickman@umn who just contacted me with regard to the encyclopedia article. are you aware of the linkers distribution list related to online info access, run by Kirk Kelley? [Could anyone knowledgeable about 'linkers' let us all know what it is about and how it operates? Thanks, Ed] steve ------- From: WEYER@HPLABS Date: 18 Jul 1985 0749-PDT Subject: electronic encyclopedia talk & paper Cc: weyer@HPLABS, borning@WASHINGTON Although the date for the talk below has passed and you may have seen this in several other digests, I thought it of interest to pass on. Here is a pointer to a recent paper discussing this work. Stephen Weyer & Alan Borning A Prototype Electronic Encyclopedia ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems Vol. 3, No. 1, Jan. 1985, pp. 63-88. Stephen Weyer Hewlett Packard Laboratories 1501 Page Mill Road, 3U Palo Alto, CA 94303-0866 (415) 857-3059 weyer@hplabs, weyer.hplabs@csnet-relay, ...hplabs!weyer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: 12 Jul 1985 10:49 EDT (Fri) From: Crisse Ciro Subject: Seminar - Electronic Encyclopedia (MIT) Wednesday, July 17 8th Floor Playroom NE43 3:00 PM INTERACTIVE SIMULATIONS FOR AN ELECTRONIC ENCYCLOPEDIA Alan Borning Computer Science Department University of Washington In the first part of this seminar, I'll describe work on a prototype electronic encyclopedia. The prototype makes use of the text from an existing print encyclopedia, and employs a window-oriented browser on a Symbolics 3600 computer. Selected articles in the prototype also include some features that take advantage of the new medium, including interactive simulations, links to a picture library stored on a videodisk, and active text for browsing cross references, expanding abbreviations, and converting from one measurement system to another. The construction of a comprehensive electronic encyclopedia that takes full advantage of the computer medium will be an enormous task, and will require good computer-based tools to support the encyclopedia's authors. The second part of the seminar will concern research on one such tool: a kit for constructing interactive simulations. Using this kit, authors can construct simulations of such things as manipulable diagrams illustrating geometric theorems or simulations of physics experiments. The kit, an extension of the ThingLab system, uses constraints to specify the relations between parts of the simulations, and provides convenient graphical tools for assembling and manipulating simulations. As part of the talk two videoptapes will be shown: first, a brief demo of the prototype electronic encyclopedia, and second, a demo of ThingLab, including recent enhancements. ------- *****End of IRList Digest*****