Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!sri-ai.arpa!AIList-REQUEST From: AIList-REQUEST@SRI-AI.ARPA (AIList Moderator Kenneth Laws) Newsgroups: net.ai Subject: AIList Digest V3 #130 Message-ID: <8510020238.AA07078@UCB-VAX.ARPA> Date: Sun, 29-Sep-85 19:27:00 EDT Article-I.D.: UCB-VAX.8510020238.AA07078 Posted: Sun Sep 29 19:27:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Oct-85 07:21:24 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Reply-To: AIList@SRI-AI Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 672 AIList Digest Sunday, 29 Sep 1985 Volume 3 : Issue 130 Today's Topics: Literature - New Citation/Abstract Distribution Service & Leff Bibliographies & Recent Articles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 27 Sep 85 13:38:21 cdt From: Laurence Leff Subject: New Citation/Abstract Distribution Service I have volunteered to organize an electronic mechanism for the distribution of technical report lists from Universities and R&D labs. Some (and hopefully all) of the people producing technical reports would send a copy of the list to me. I would then send these to a moderated group on USENET as well as a mailing list for those sites on the INTERNET who do not get news (ARPANET, CSNET, etc.). I need two things from you: 1) if your organization prepares technical reports and sends them out to interested parties (perhaps for a fee), please arrange to have electronically readable copy of your lists sent to trlist%smu@csnet-relay. 2) if people at your organization would like to receive lists of tech reports produced by universities and R&D labs, please provide me an electronic address to send them to (if you are not on USENET). Send such administrative mail to trlist-request%smu@ csnet-relay. Some frequently asked questions: 1. What are the advantages of sending my lists to you? a. Most of the people to whom you are sending printed lists will be receiving this list, either through the INTERNET as a mailing list or as a moderated news group on the USENET distributed bulletin board system. Thus you can save the postage and printing costs in mailing these lists. I would be happy to provide you with a list of institutions receiving this list as a mailing list as well as those institutions on USENET who would be receiving it that way. You can use this to prune the mailing list you use to send out printed copies of your technical report lists. b. Many people at the Universities are not aware of technical report lists. I have been sending out lists of AI tech reports to the AIList, an electronic newsletter on AI, for some time. Every time I do so, my electronic mailbox fills up with requests on how to obtain the tech reports. Many of these requests come from the most prestigious AI organizations in the country. c. Many companies, particularly those on the USENET, would not otherwise be aware of your research. There are hundreds of small companies on USENET who have no other access to the wealth of information represented by University and other tech reports. 2. What is a technical report? Most universities and big company R&D labs publish reports about their research. Some are highly research oriented (like new results in automata theory). Others are manuals for their public domain software or tutorials. ... 3. What format should the tech report lists be in? Please see to it that there is some info indicating how people can order the tech reports (whether sending you a check to cover costs, requests via electronic mail or the reports can be electronically available for Arpanet FTP transfer). If you are already producing the list in some format, feel free to use that format. If you are preparing the list just for this purpose, I would prefer that you use the input format for bib/refer, a common bibliography tool. This way people can dump the lists into a file on their machine and be able to do keyword searches. Also bib/refer will automatically include and format references in documents to be formatted or typeset. However, I would prefer the material in some weird format than not to have it at all! For those not familiar with bib/refer, here is a brief tutorial. Each report or other item should be a sequence of records which are not separated by blank lines. Each report should be separated by the others by one or more blank lines. Each report entry consists of a label consisting of a % followed by a capital letter and then a space. Then include the information. If the information for a field (such as an abstract) requires more than one line, just continue the field on a new line with no initial space. The labels needed for tech reports are: %A Author's name (this field should be repeated for each author). %T Title of report %R report number %I issuer, this will be the name of your institution. This may be ommited if implied by the report number %C City where published (not essential) %D Date of publication %X Abstract Here is an example of some tech report listings in the appropriate format: %A D. Rozenshtein %A J. Chomicki %T Unifying the Use and Evolution of Database Systems: A Case Study in PROLOG %R LCSR-TR-68 %I Laboratory for Computer Science Research, Rutgers University %K frame control %A C. V. Srinivasan %T CK-LOG, A Calculus for Knowledge Processing in Logic %R DCS-TR-153 %I Laboratory for Computer Research, Rutgers University %K MDS 4. I already have exchange agreements with other Universities. How does this affect them? The only change would be how the information on what technical reports you have for them to request gets transferred. [...] 5. I need to charge for my tech reports to cover costs. Fine. Just include the prices for your reports next to each report (you can use the %X field for that too). At the beginning of the list you send me, state where checks should be sent and to whom they should be made payable. 6. What about non-CS reports? I am happy to handle reports for other departments. If the volume of non-CS reports becomes significant, I will split the list into tr-cs, tr-math, tr-ee etc. I would suspect that the majority of the people receiving this list would be CS researchers since CS departments are quick to join networks, etc. However, some CS researchers (myself included) are working in applications of computers and would like to receive information in those areas as well. 7. I am already on USENET. What should I do? I anticipate a USENET moderated group in a time frame of one to two weeks which will contain the same information as the technical report lists. If you indicate that you will get the information via USENET, I will remove your name when the list is established. If you want to wait a week or two to see if the list comes up, that is OK too. I can send back copies of the TR Lists that get sent out in the first few batches of the mailing. I will also send out on the USENET group, everything that got sent out in the mailing list so you won't miss anything either way. 8. I am on Arpanet, BITNET, etc. I can get to Arpanet sites through csnet-relay so there is no problem there. Otherwise, send me your address as best you know it. I will get through to you if at all possible. ------------------------------ Date: 27 Sep 1985 20:03-CST From: leff%smu.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA Subject: Bibliographies [Forwarded from a message to AIList-Request.] You have probably noticed the announcement of the new tech report list. [...] The thing that started me on this was the response of AIList readers to my lists of tech reports. From what filled up my mailbox, it was obvious that many if not most of your readers were not seeing the tech report lists and a substantial fraction of those did not even know that tech reports existed! Hopefully this list will serve a useful function for everyone. It was something that should have been done a long time ago. [...] I have increased the number of magazines from which my bibliographies (type 1) are drawn. We now have added ComputerWorld as well as a few minor magazines. ComputerWorld did a very good job on IJCAI-85 and I found material there that was no place else. [...] According to bib, we now have 430 documents sent to you since I changed formats to machine readable. This does not include information sent to you in other formats. [I would like to thank Laurence for providing his services to AIList and the net community. It's a heck of a hobby, but he does a great job. -- KIL] ------------------------------ Date: 27 Sep 1985 20:00-CST From: leff%smu.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA Subject: Recent Articles %A Ruth E. Davis %T Logic Programming and Prolog: A Tutorial %J IEEE Software %D SEP 1985 %P 53-62 %V 2 %N 5 %T Advertisement %A Texas Instruments %J IEEE Spectrum %D SEP 1985 %V 22 %N 9 %P 22-23 %X announces a TV satellite symposium that can be received by various companies using a satellite dish. (On November 13, 1985) %A T. A. Marsland %A F. Popowich %T Parallel Game-Tree Search %J IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence %V PAMI-7 %N 4 %D JUL 1985 %P 442-452 %K alpha-beta %A K. C. Drake %A E. S. McVey %A R. M. Inigo %T Sensing Error for a Mobile Robot Using Line Navigation %J IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence %V PAMI-7 %N 4 %D JUL 1985 %P 485-490 %A A. Lansner %A O. Ekeberg %T Reliability and Speed of Recall in an Associate Network %J IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence %V PAMI-7 %N 4 %D JUL 1985 %P 490-498 %A W. A. Gale %T Book Review: The AI Business: The Commerical Uses of Artificial Intelligence- P. Winston and K. Prendergast, Eds %J IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence %V PAMI-7 %N 4 %D JUL 1985 %P 499 %T FMC Invests $3.5 Million in Knowledge-Based Systems %J IEEE Software %D JUL 1985 %V 2 %N 4 %P 101 %K Teknowledge %X FMC has invested $3.5 million in Teknowledge. %T US, Japan AI firms enter joint ventures %J IEEE Software %D JUL 1985 %V 2 %N 4 %P 101 %K Carnegie Group Intelligent Technology Knowledge Craft Language Craft Jack Geer McDonnell Douglas %X Carnegie Group and Intelligent Technology have signed a joint venture agreement where Intelligent Technology will distribute Knowledge Crat and Language Craft throughout the far east. They will be creating Japanese language versions of these products. Carnegie Group has appointed Jack Geer, formally of the Knowledge Engineering Division of McDonnell Douglas Information Systems Group, as director of marketing. %A Eric Bender %T AI Firms Outgrow Seat-of-the-Pants Style %J ComputerWorld %V 19 %N 35 %D SEP 2, 1985 %P 10+ %K Golden Common Lisp %X general article on Gold Hill Computers, the author of Golden Common Lisp, and Arity computers, the author of a Prolog compiler/interpreter. Golden Common Lisp has sold approximately 3000 copies. They employ 18 people and have a "monthly run rate" of $200,000. They anticipate selling a large memory version for the PC/AT which can use 16M of memory. The largest user of Arity products is software vendors with classic DP shoppers a closer second. Arity Prolog tools were used by one software vendor to develop a system to consult on software installation. %T Vendors Fuel AI Language Debate %J ComputerWorld %V 19 %N 35 %D SEP 2, 1985 %X discusses battle between Prolog and Lisp as standard for AI. %A Charles Babcock %T Experts Beat out Expert Systems at Financial Firm %J ComputerWorld %V 19 %N 35 %D SEP 2, 1985 %P 12+ %K business insurance financial Metropolital Life Roger Jones expert system medical %X Rojer Jones, planning manager in Metropolital Life's corporate systems planning division, said that it is very difficult to encode expert thinking and in many cases the bank prefers training human experts to developing expert systems. He said that experts might lie, be wrong or the business might change. He emphasized that some experts are so possessive of their knowledge that they would covertly sabotage the expert system development process. In the case of one project, it cost more to transcribe the 30 pages of medical information to provide to the expert system than to have an underwriter evaluate the information. Insurance companies are using larger pools of data to determine actuarial tables so that expert systems based on segregated pools (e. g. with men separated from women) would be obsolete. He claims that the systems that were successful (Prospector, Dendral) mapped a very broad knowledge base of simple facts. %T Artificial? Or Intelligent? %J ComputerWorld %V 19 %N 35 %D SEP 2, 1985 %P 18 %X editorial on AI, saying that there is a legitimate demand for AI technology but it will be frought with hard work and that DP staffs can't neglect their day to day work to pursue the interesting AI interests. %A Eric Bender %T Lively Discussions Highlight AI Meet %J ComputerWorld %V 19 %N 35 %D SEP 2, 1985 %P 49+ %K IJCAI %X quotes overhead at IJCAI-85 Beau Sheil of Xerox Artificial Intellgience Systems - AI works best with a lot of information that can be manipulated at a shallow level Xerox has received an order for 1000 of its 1185 work stations and is flooded with requests at similar volume. Alan Kay of Apple said "we need to do problem finding," not problem solving. He also griped about logic programming and parallel processing. He made a comment that if the Intel 80286 is a weak architecture, what is it when you have 16 of them? [probably a veiled reference to Intel's Cosmic Cube.] Larry Levesque of Carnegie Group said that AI products and demos are tools and they don't scale up. %T Secure Xerox Workstation Out %J ComputerWorld %V 19 %N 35 %D SEP 2, 1985 %P 63+ %X Lisp Machine %K Xerox announced the 1108-105T, an AI work station that meeets standards for release of electronic radiation that can be tapped for use in National Security and other places. It also announced an 1108 series of AI work stations that can interface with IBM and Multibus equipment. %T Systems and Peripherals %J ComputerWorld %V 19 %N 35 %D SEP 2, 1985 %K digitization machine vision Industrial Vision Systems %X Industrial Vision Systems has announced a 400 dot/in digitizing scanner capable of handling up to 36 in wide paper. It costs $79,000. %A John Gallant %T Will IBM Take AI by Storm %J Computer World %D SEP 9, 1985 %V 19 %N 36 %P 61+ %K IJCAI-85 %X general article on IBM's role in AI %T Inference Enhances ART Development Environment %J Computer World %D SEP 9, 1985 %V 19 %N 36 %P 62 %X improvements to Inference Corp's Automated Reasoning Tool include: 1) improved color graphics including a away of attaching graphics primitives to rules, 2) a pseudo-natural language development enviornment which allows a developer to build his knowledge-base using an English-like syntax 3) a mixed initiative processing environment allowing the expert system to prompt for information while reacting to user inquiriers 4) separately compilable rule files %T Software and Services %J ComputerWorld %D SEP 9, 1985 %V 19 %N 36 %P 69 %K Lucid Sun Common Lisp %X Sun Microsystem has announced a version of LUCID, a Common LISP implementation for its work stations costing $375.00. %A Sol Libes %T Bytelines %J Byte %D SEP 1985 %P 420 %V 10 %N 9 %X Kurzweil Applied Intelligence speech recognition KVS-3000 %X Kurzweil has introduced a KVS-3000 that can handle 1000 words continuous speech with 100 per cent accuracy. It is selling at $3000.00 in quantity and comes in PC, multibus and RS232C versions. It is speaker adaptive and its performance increases the more it talks with the same user. %A Jean Renard Ward %%A Barry Blesser %T Interactive recognition of Handprinted Characters for Computer Input %J IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications %V 5 %N 9 %P 24-37 %K Character Recogniton Pencept %X discusses the human interface issues once you have character recognition on your computer; i. e. how best to interface handwritten character recognition with your product. %T Hitachi to Spend $40 million in U. S. on High-Tech Gear %J Electronic News %D SEP 2, 1985 %V 31 %N 1565 %P 10 %K Tektronix %X Hitachi has spent $700,000 at Tektronix which includes an undisclosed amount of "artificial intelligence products." %T Raytheon Acquires Stake in Lisp Machines %J Electronic News %D AUG 26, 1985 %P 20+ %V 31 %N 1564 %K energy venture capital military electronics %X Raytheon invested 4.5 million dollars into Lisp Machine Inc. through its new venture capital subsidiary. Lisp Machine Inc. has raised a total of twelve million dollars in a fourth round of financing. Raytheon hopes to be using Lisp Machine products in its military electronics and energy business. Ti currently owns 9 percent of LMI. other investors include Abingworth plc, InterVEN, Genesis Venture Capital, Manufacturers Hanover Trust. %A Eric Bender %T Artificial Intelligence: On the Road to Reality %J ComputerWorld %D AUG 26, 1985 %V 19 %N 34 %K IJCAI-85 %X summary and analysis of events at IJCAI-85 %X Many vendors continued development work up until the demonstrations themselves and there were more bugs than typical at a computer conference vendor exhibition. Beau Sheil of Xerox stated that in order for AI to work at a company, the company has to have long term horizons, a real clear idea about its needs and a history of applying technology to solve those problems. %A Eric bender %T IJCAI sees HP, Intellicorp moves in AI programming %J ComputerWorld %D AUG 26, 1985 %V 19 %N 34 %P 10+ %K Hewlett-Packard Common Lisp HP 9000 Xerox Palladian Software financial %X Hewlett-Packard will have a Common Lisp development environment running on its HP 9000 series 300 family of workstations. It will have a system called Browsers "that will automatically have appropriate tools for the task at hand." Xerox will be announcing a Common Lisp in second quarter 186. Intellicorp announced a system to allow personal computers to act as delivery vehicles for expert systems. Initial versions will use VAX systems as hosts and IBM PC's and the Macintosh as delivery vehicles. Palladian Software announced its financial advisor expert system. It runs on Symbolics and Texas Instruments Lisp Machines and communicates with IBM and DEC systems. A system with four work stations runs for $95,000. %A Eric Bender %T Symbolics, Xerox offer enhanced AI workstations %J ComputerWorld %D AUG 26, 1985 %V 19 %N 34 %P 11 %K Lisp Machine %X Xerox announced an 1185 which costs $9.995 and runs Interlisp-D software and serves as a delivery vehicle. They also announced an 1186 development system with 3.6M of internal memory and 80M of hard disk storage for $15,865. %T Aion offers AI development system %J ComputerWorld %D AUG 26, 1985 %V 19 %N 34 %P 55 %K expert system microcomputer venture capital %X Aion announced a new expert system for the IBM Pc written in Pascal. They anticipate selling an IBM-370 version for first-quarter 1986. They are focussing on the traditional DP environment. They received 2.4 million in venture capital. %T Microcomputers %J ComputerWorld %D AUG 26, 1985 %V 19 %N 34 %P 61 %K The Institute for Scientific Analysis Small-X microcomputer expert system %X The Instuitute for Scientific Analysis introduced Small-X, an expert system development tool for the IBM-PC. It costs $249.95 and can control or exchange data with other applications running under Microsoft. %A S. Jerrold Kaplan %T Designing a Portable Natural Language Database Query System %J ACM Transactions on Database Systems %V 9 %N 1 %D MAR 1984 %P 1-19 %A C. Hornsby %A H. C. Leung %T The Design and Implementation of a Flexible Retrieval Language for a Prolog Database System %J SIGPLAN %V 20 %N 9 %D SEP 1985 %P 43-51 %X implementation of a database management system in PROLOG %A Donna Raimondi %T Ansa offers Paradox IBM-compatible relational DBMS %J ComputerWorld %V 19 %N 38 %P 12 %D SEP 23, 1985 %K data base system interface microcomputer heuristic query optimization Ansa Software Paradox Sevin Rosen Management %X A data base management package which uses machine reasoning to evaluate user requests and write programs for the user. It uses query by example, program synthesis and heuristic query optimization techniques %A Jeffry Beeler %T Symantec package out %J ComputerWorld %V 19 %N 38 %P 12 %D SEP 23, 1985 %K Symantec natural language microcomputer data base system interface %X a new product which uses natural language to interface with a database %T Software and Services %J ComputerWorld %V 19 %N 38 %D SEP 23, 1985 %P 50 %K Franz Common Lisp flavors %X a new release of Franz Lisp, Opus 42, is out which supports Lisp flavors, functions returning multiple values, multiple name spaces in the Lisp environment, hash table objects, history mechanism. It is available for Apollo, Sun, Cadmus, Masscomp, Tektronix, Harris and Digital equipment Corp. $5,000 first copy, $1,000 subsequent copies %A Craig D. Rose %T R&D Race Tightens for Fifth-Generation Computers %J Electronics %D SEP 23, 1985 %V 58 %N 38 %P 30-31 %X Attempts to compare and contrast the Fifth Generation efforts of Europe, Japan and the U. S. The Strategic Computing Initiative (SCI) of DARPA will spend one billion dollars over ten years. Europe's Esprit program is being funded with 1.2 billion for five years and Britain is spending $455 million over the same time span for the Alvey project. Japan's Fifth Generation Project is funded at twenty to thirty million dollars per year. Japanese companies are spending in total about five times as much money as ICOT. The Canadian Society for Fifth Generation computing has requested fourty million dollars over three years. %T Machine Vision Maker Raises Three Million Dollars %J Electronics %D SEP 23, 1985 %V 58 %N 38 %P 41 %X Itran venture capital inspection General Motors %X Itran Corp has raised three million dollars in a new round of venture financing. Itran markets systems that inspects parts on factory floors. It sells systems to General Motors. %A Tobias Naegele %T How Rensing Got His Robot Working %J Electronics %D SEP 23, 1985 %V 58 %N 38 %P 42 %K Renco Electronics %X describes experiences of a small firm in installing robots in their factory. %T AI Tools Automate Software Translation %J Electronics %D SEP 23, 1985 %V 58 %N 38 %P 59-61 %K Lexeme Michael Shamos computer language translation conversion expert system %X Lexeme sells an expert system that translates from one computer language to another. It supports Ada and C as target language and accepts input of Fortran, PL/1, Bliss and SPL. They are developing COBOL, BASIC, Algol, Jovial and CMS-2 versions. They also handle conversions from one language to another. There is a separate page on the personalities and stories of the founders. [Michael Shamos, the president, is also well known for his work in computational geometry. --Leff] He managed to pick up a law degree as well as a Ph. D. in computer science! ------------------------------ End of AIList Digest ******************** Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com