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From: gregl@tekgen.UUCP (Greg Lacefield)
Newsgroups: net.lang.forth
Subject: Re: 1986 Rochester Forth Conference - Real Time AI
Message-ID: <140@tekgen.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Jun-86 11:10:36 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  4 11:10:36 1986
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In article <125@ur-laser.UUCP> larry@ur-laser.UUCP (Lawrence P. Forsley) writes:
>
>        1986 Rochester Forth Applications Conference
>             Real-Time Artificial Intelligence
>              Applications and Implementations
>
>                  University of Rochester
>                    Rochester, New York
>
>                     June 11 - 14, 1986
> ...
>     The conference chairman is  Mr.  Lawrence  P.  Forsley,
>computer  systems  group  leader at the Laboratory for Laser
>Energetics.  His invited lecturers this  year  will  address
>the  application  and implementation of two different Forth-
>based expert  systems,  and  the  possible  use  of  object-
>oriented programming in AI:
>
>  Mr. Jack Park, consultant
>  "Toward the Development of a Real-Time Expert System"
>

I've heard this guy talk at the 1984 FORML conference.  "_EVERY_
program is an expert system at some level."  Direct quote.  Am
I missing something, or is that statement incorrect?  His reasoning
was that basically, if you have a lot of IF...THEN...ELSE (or to
be more Forth-like, IF...ELSE...THEN... :-)  constructs, you have
an expert system.  Uh-uh.  Sorry, I don't believe that.

Personally, I don't put much credibility in him.  But it might be
interesting to attend his presentation to see if he's changed his
thinking or line of reasoning.  After all, it's been a year and a
half!  Maybe he can convince me otherwise (or vice-versa).  But I
doubt it.

Greg Lacefield  :-)
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