Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!simulation From: simulation@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu (Moderator: Paul Fishwick) Newsgroups: comp.simulation Subject: SIMULATION DIGEST V13 N8 Message-ID: <22037@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Date: 1 Feb 90 15:47:58 GMT Sender: fishwick@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU Reply-To: simulation@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu Lines: 185 Approved: fishwick@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu Volume: 13, Issue: 8, Thu Feb 1 10:47:28 EST 1990 +----------------+ | TODAY'S TOPICS | +----------------+ (1) SPICE Discussions (2) Psychological Simulation (3) Autodesk CA Program * Moderator: Paul Fishwick, Univ. of Florida * Send topical mail to: simulation@bikini.cis.ufl.edu OR post to comp.simulation via USENET * Archives available via FTP to bikini.cis.ufl.edu (128.227.224.1). Login as 'ftp', use your last name as the password, change directory to pub/simdigest. * Simulation Tools available by doing above and changing the directory to pub/simdigest/tools. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 90 13:04:34 PST From: mailrus!uunet!f4.n494.z5.fidonet.org!MIKINGS.UCTEEA@bikini.cis.ufl.edu (MIKINGS UCTEEA) Subject: SPICE discussions To: mailrus!fish.cis.ufl.EDU!fishwick X-Mailer: mailout v1.26 released Dear SIMUL readers, I am new to this list, and am trying to find somewhere that the Electrical Engineering CAD package SPICE is discussed. In particular, we are running the SPICE version 3x as originated at Berkeley. We are using it for teaching undergraduates about CAD, rather than complex design problems at this stage. In particular, it would be useful to be able to swop graphics device drivers and models for various commercial devices. We have collected/developed a few during the last year or so. We also have tutorial material for SPICE/NUTMEG in the HP9000 (UNIX) and DEC (VMS) environments. Michael Inggs Dept. Electrical and Electronic Engineering UCT. -- uucp: uunet!m2xenix!puddle!5!494!4!MIKINGS.UCTEEA Internet: MIKINGS.UCTEEA@f4.n494.z5.fidonet.org ------------------------------ From: Ivan Leudar Date: Thu, 25 Jan 90 15:55:33 GMT To: fishwick%fish.cis.ufl.edu@NSFNET-RELAY.AC.UK Subject: Request to be added to simulation mailing list UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY Research Associate Cognitive Science The Departments of Computer Science and Psychology are seeking a Research Associate to join a SERC/ESCR/MRC funded project entitled ``Psychological Inference by Psychological Simulation". The project, which will run jointly in the computer science and psychology departments, will investingate the ability of human subjects to make inferences about the goals, plans and knowledge of other persons, and will apply the results of these investigations to the implementation of an intelligent computer interface capable of making inferences about the goals, plans and knowledge of its users. Applicants should preferably possess a PhD. in either psychology, artificial intelligence, computer science or a related discipline. Preference will be given to those candidates with a background in cognitive psychology and/or artificial intelligence. Programming experience is essential. The appointment will be made on the RA 1A scale (Salary up to 12,381 pounds sterling), depending on age and experience, and will be tenable from 1st April 1990 for a period of 36 months. Applications, including a full CV and names of 2 referees, and further enquiries should be addressed to: Dr. Ian Pratt Department of Computer Science University of Manchester Manchester M13 9PL Telephone: 061 275 6223 Email: ipratt@uk.ac.man.cs PROJECT DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS: An important part of being able to get by in the world involves working out what other people are thinking. Every day one must make inferences about the likely beliefs, desires, plans, etc. of others. For example, suppose that company employee E is told by his colleague F to take some coffee to a certain office where a meeting has been taking place. Suppose further that E knows that the meeting has just broken up. Then if E is minimally intelligent and co-operative, he will not blindly obey the instruction, but will pass his information on to F. In doing so, E has inferred the following: (i) that F wants coffee to be taken to the office; (ii) that F wants this because F has the goal of giving the people in the meeting coffee; and (iii) that F believes the people at the meeting are still in the office. We call such inference `psychological inference'. The proposed research addresses two questions concerning such psychological inferences: (i) how do people make them? (ii) how might a computer make them? The second of these questions is of great practical significance. If a computer system is to understand and obey intelligently a sequence of commands, it must have an interface that can infer the plans, goals and knowledge of the person issuing those commands. The often obtuse and frustrating reactions of computer interfaces, especially when the user exhibits what to humans is an obvious misunderstanding, arises principally from the inability of those interfaces to attribute the appropriate goals to the user. Psychological inference has therefore been central to research into intelligent tutoring, intelligent explanation facilities and dialogue modelling. The research will combine two themes: one empirical, the other computational. The burden of the empirical theme will be to test a specific theses---the `indexing thesis'---about the cognitive mechanisms involved in goal-attribution. The experiments will involve presenting human subjects with a series of texts and then posing them questions designed to gather data comparing their ability to attribute plans to characters in the texts with their ability to devise similar plan for themselves. The burden of the computational theme will be to develop a computer program incorporating a goal attribution mechanism that is consistent, as far as is computationally feasible, with the data gathered on human subjects under the empirical theme. ------------------------------ From: nelson_p@apollo.com Date: Tue, 30 Jan 90 17:06:59 EST Subject: CA Lab by Autodesk To: fishwick@bikini.cis.ufl.edu Does anyone have any experience with or comments about the CA (Cellular Automation) Lab written by Randy Rucker for Autodesk? How easy is it to program? It says you can write your own rules in C or Pascal; how well does this work with different compilers/linkers? What are the pre-programmed rules like? What about performance? Etc, etc, et cetera. Thanks in advance. ---Peter ------------------------------ END OF SIMULATION DIGEST ************************