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From:  Rod Brooks <ROD@SU-AI>

                [Reprinted from the SU-SCORE bboard.]

  Dr. Richard P. Gabriel, Stanford CSD
  ``Queue-based Multi-processing Lisp''
  4:30pm Terman Auditorium, Jan 17th.

As the need for high-speed computers increases, the need for
multi-processors will be become more apparent. One of the major stumbling
blocks to the development of useful multi-processors has been the lack of
a good multi-processing language---one which is both powerful and
understandable to programmers.

Among the most compute-intensive programs are artificial intelligence (AI)
programs, and researchers hope that the potential degree of parallelism in
AI programs is higher than in many other applications.  In this talk I
will propose a version of Lisp which is multi-processed.  Unlike other
proposed multi-processing Lisps, this one will provide only a few very
powerful and intuitive primitives rather than a number of parallel
variants of familiar constructs.

The talk will introduce the language informally, and many examples along
with performance results will be shown.