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From: GELSON@BRFAPESP.BITNET (GELSON GOMES)
Newsgroups: comp.theory.dynamic-sys
Subject: Mastering INTERNET TOOLS
Date: 28 Sep 92 12:38:49 GMT
Reply-To: GELSON GOMES <GELSON%BRFAPESP.BITNET@cmsa.Berkeley.EDU>
Distribution: inet
Organization: The Internet
X-Unparsable-Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 13:24:09 PRT


         "Mastering INTERNET Tools, Seizing METANET Power" -
                    "The InterMeta Course"

     Begining on October 10, the InterMeta Course will describe
the History of the Metanetwork and cover the basic utilities used
to access the network, as well as to guide users through the
Internet's, Bitnet's, (and othernets') "databases of databases"
to access files and archives available. Some of the topics to be
presented in the InterMeta Course are how to (1)Remote Login,
(2)Use Electronic Mail, (3)Move a File, (4)Find Software,
(5)Locate a Person, (3)Deal with Network Problems. An index that
covers a selection of resources available on the Internet,
ranging from Card Catalogs to Archives for USENET news will also
be delivered.
     In addition, some sessions will help UNIX, VMS, VAX and DOS
users to interface their systems to the Net.
     Resulting from five years of researching and using the
Network, the InterMeta Course is being prepared by Gelson
Gomes, Ph.D. The InterMeta is the first experience of a Global
Scale Course utilizing a matrix of connected networks, the
Metanetwork.
     Dr. Gomes is a professor at the Federal University of Parana
and is conducting research on the Computer Industries of Brazil
and Taiwan. He got his Doctoral Degree on Science and Technology
Public Policy at The George Washington University (Washington
D.C.).
     The course will be ministered from Brazil; to help
recovering local communication costs, (PDN is very expensive in
Brazil) a flat $ 5 US dollars donation is requested.
     To enroll in the InterMeta Course, please fill in the
application bellow and E-Mail to: Gelson@BRFAPESP.
____________________________________________________________
       Mastering INTERNET Tools, Seizing METANET Power -
                     The InterMeta Course
____________________________________________________________
                        APPLICATION FORM

Name:
Institution:
Highiest Degree Earned:
City:               Country:

__ Yes, I am sending US$ 5 dollars
     (or the equivalent on my own currency)

Mail your check to:
Gelson V. Gomes
358, R. Alvaro Andrade - ap.1201
Curitiba PR BRAZIL 80610-240
From: gomide@FPSP.FAPESP.BR
Newsgroups: comp.theory.dynamic-sys
Subject: Apologies re: InterMeta course
Date: 28 Sep 92 22:05:21 GMT
Reply-To: gomide%BRFapq.BITNET@cmsa.Berkeley.EDU
Distribution: inet
Organization: The Internet
X-Unparsable-Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 23:03:46 PRT

PLEASE DO NOT SEND MONEY !
It is with regret that I perform this task. Dr. Gelson V. Gomes. a
professor of the University of Parana, Brazil, has exceeded this
privileges and announced a eletronic course:

> ____________________________________________________________
>        Mastering INTERNET Tools, Seizing METANET Power -
>                      The InterMeta Course
> ____________________________________________________________

I must apologize for this flagrant breach of network etiquette. Please
be aware that Dr. Gelson had no right to do so, since this is against
the rules of our ANSP network, and also against the Bitnet rules.
PLEASE DO NOT SEND MONEY!
I will not discuss what his motivations were. But his account has been
revoked, and there will be no such course through my network.

Please write by normal mail, to:
-> Gelson V. Gomes
-> 358, R. Alvaro Andrade - ap.1201
-> Curitiba PR BRAZIL 80610-240
to get more information on his objectives. He may want to give the
course by normal mail.  :-)

With regards,
--
Alberto Courrege Gomide | Fundacao de Amparo `a Pesquisa - (11)831-3357
Software Supervisor     | Rua Pio XI, 1500 - CEP 05468-901 - Sao Paulo
<gomide@fapq.fapesp.br> | FAX (11)261-4167 Telex (11)82014 - Brazil
(ACG8) - .BR Domain Technical Contact. |
--
From: mike@PARK.BU.EDU ("", Michael Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.theory.dynamic-sys
Subject: (none)
Date: 2 Oct 92 18:25:45 GMT
Reply-To: "(Michael Cohen)" <mike@PARK.BU.EDU>
Distribution: inet
Organization: The Internet

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW

CENTER FOR ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS
AND
DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS
BOSTON UNIVERSITY


A postdoctoral fellow is sought to join the Center for Adaptive Systems
and the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, which are research
leaders in the development of biological and artificial neural networks.
A person is sought who has a substantial research and publication record
om developing neural network models of image processing and adaptive
pattern recognition. Salary: $30,000+. Excellent opportunities for broadening
knowledge of neural architectures through interactions with a faculty trained
in psychology, neurobiology, mathematics, computer science, physics, and
engineering. Well-equipped computer, vision, speech, word recognition, and
motor control laboratories are in the Department. Boston University is
an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Please send a curriculum
vitae, 3 letters of recommendation, and illustrative research articles by
January 15, 1993 to:

Postdoctoral Search Committee
Center for Adaptive Systems
Boston University
111 Cummington Street
Room 244
Boston MA 02215
From: jybriend@ens-lyon.fr (Jean-Yves Briend)
Newsgroups: comp.theory.dynamic-sys
Subject: Theory
Date: 28 Sep 92 19:06:07 GMT
Reply-To: jybriend@ens-lyon.fr
Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon


   Well, in the name of the news group, there is the word "theory". But I don't see much theory round here... Could'nt it be possible to post some TeX article or some
general references?

		Thanks
From: gomide@FPSP.FAPESP.BR
Newsgroups: comp.theory.dynamic-sys
Subject: Apologies re: InterMeta course
Date: 28 Sep 92 22:07:24 GMT
Reply-To: gomide%BRFAPQ.BITNET@cmsa.Berkeley.EDU
Distribution: inet
Organization: The Internet
X-Unparsable-Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 17:51:00 BSC

PLEASE DO NOT SEND MONEY !
It is with regret that I perform this task. Dr. Gelson V. Gomes. a
professor of the University of Parana, Brazil, has exceeded this
privileges and announced a eletronic course:

> ____________________________________________________________
>        Mastering INTERNET Tools, Seizing METANET Power -
>                      The InterMeta Course
> ____________________________________________________________

I must apologize for this flagrant breach of network etiquette. Please
be aware that Dr. Gelson had no right to do so, since this is against
the rules of our ANSP network, and also against the Bitnet rules.
PLEASE DO NOT SEND MONEY!
I will not discuss what his motivations were. But his account has been
revoked, and there will be no such course through my network.

Please write by normal mail, to:
-> Gelson V. Gomes
-> 358, R. Alvaro Andrade - ap.1201
-> Curitiba PR BRAZIL 80610-240
to get more information on his objectives. He may want to give the
course by normal mail.  :-)

With regards,
--
Alberto Courrege Gomide | Fundacao de Amparo `a Pesquisa - (11)831-3357
Software Supervisor     | Rua Pio XI, 1500 - CEP 05468-901 - Sao Paulo
<gomide@fapq.fapesp.br> | FAX (11)261-4167 Telex (11)82014 - Brazil
(ACG8) - .BR Domain Technical Contact. |
--
Newsgroups: comp.theory
From: royer@top.cis.syr.edu (Jim Royer)
Subject: Visiting Position at Syracus University--Starting 1/1/93
Organization: Syracuse University, School of Computer & Inf. Science
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 22:35:16 EDT


*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

			    Syracuse University
	       The School of Computer & Information Science


The School of Computer and Information Science at Syracuse University
invites applications for a one-and-a-half year visiting assistant
professorship starting January 1993.  Areas of particular interest are
Computational Science, Parallel Systems, Parallel Algorithms, and Numerical
Methods.

Candidates should be capable of research that extends the frontiers of the
discipline and will be expected to pursue an active research program.
Candidates also must be committed to excellence in teaching.  A Ph.D. or
equivalent in computer science or a related area is required.

The School has particular strength in parallelism, computational science,
logic programming, and coding theory.  A variety of parallel computers is
readily available to the faculty through the Northeast Parallel
Architectures Center (NPAC) at Syracuse University.  NPAC's machines
include: a CM2, a CM5, an Ncube, and a DEC-MPP.

Applicants should send a resume, the names of at least three references,
and copies of selected publications to:

  	James Royer 
  	Faculty Search Committee
  	School of Computer and Information Science 
	Syracuse University 
	Syracuse, NY 13244-4100.

The initial application should be sent by December 1, 1992.  For more
information send e-mail to royer@top.cis.syr.edu.

Syracuse Unversity is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Newsgroups: comp.theory
From: tolman%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Kenneth Tolman)
Subject: Minimal constructs for computation
Date: 6 Oct 92 18:17:44 MDT
Organization: University of Utah, CompSci Dept

What are the minimal constructs for computation?  NOT and AND....
or perhaps NAND.  Don't think too fast...

I am interested in finding some of the original work which explored
the minimal gate requirements for computation.  What would this be?

You actually require the FAN OUT function as well as a constant ground (0) and
clock pulses.  If you were to try to get a sure signal (1 or 0) without
an outside source, how would you do it?  Running the same signal through
both leads of a NAND would invert it, but wouldn't guarentee either high
or low.

Anyway, references to original source would be great!

Thanks

Newsgroups: comp.theory
From: niall@nmsu.edu (Niall Graham)
Subject: Re: Steiner Points
Organization: Computing Research Lab
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 21:42:12 GMT

>...  However, does it
>ever happen for a Steiner Point to connect to 2 or 3 other Steiner points?

Interesting question.
Take an equilateral triangle, whose Steiner tree (of course)
consists of the center (Steiner point) joined to the 3 vertices.
Now replace each vertex of the triangle be two vertices that are
relatively close to each other as follows: Remove a small
triangle from each corner of the triangle by cutting parallel
to the opposite side of the original triangle.  A hexagonal
configuration results, that looks something like:

                                  * *




                          *                *
                           *              *


Now, provided the pairs are sufficiently close, the Steiner tree
must be almost the same length as that of the triangle with a Steiner
point near each pair, as displayed (miserably) below:

                                 \/
                                 |
                                 |
                                / \
                             _/     \_
                              |     |

Alas the center now has 3 Steiner points as neighbors.
By leaving one vertex as a single point, a configuration
requiring 2 Steiner neighbrs is similarly constructed.

--
Niall Graham          "Patriotism is the virture of the vicious"
Los Alamos                                            Oscar Wilde
From: mfulsmb@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Martin Barry)
Newsgroups: comp.speech
Subject: Re: prosody
Keywords: prosody
Date: 5 Oct 92 16:57:32 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre, Manchester, England, M13 9PL.

In article <karenj.718267851@munagin> karenj@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Karen Jenkin) writes:
>I am curious about whether any prosody processing has been researched
>in speech recogntion (more specifically phonemes).
I can't quite make sense of this. Where does 'more specfically phonemes'
belong?

>Can anyone direct me to some refs. or ftp sites on the subject of prosody?
The following information has been sitting around in my file space for a
year or so. Hope it's useful:

* An electronic mailing list has been established to discuss
* matters relating to PROSODY.  If you wish to participate, send
* a one-line message to listserv@purccvm.bitnet in the following
* format:
*
*        subscribe prosody Your Name
* 
* Your name can include any combination of letters and spaces in
* upper or lower case.
* 
* This is an unmoderated list, so whatever is submitted will be
* broadcast to all subscribers. The aim is to facilitate the
* spread of information relating to research on prosody by
* creating a network of researchers in the field. If you have
* information relating to jobs, recent publications or theses,
* databases, questions, definitions, or anything that might be of
* interest to others thinking about prosody, please don't
* hesitate to contribute.
* 
* A printed newsletter is also being planned, with the first
* issue expected in January, and hard copy of interesting
* contributions will be circulated to those in the community who
* do not yet have access to e-mail.  If you would prefer to
* contribute hard copy for the newsletter only, please send it to
* either Parth Bhatt (Toronto), Nick Campbell (ATR Japan), Dafydd
* Gibbon (Bielefeld), or Daniel Hirst (Provence).

I'm not involved with Prosody (or even prosody, for that matter), so I'm
afraid I can't offer any further information.

Martin Barry, Phonetics Lab/Dept of Linguistics, Manchester University, UK.
Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
Subject: Re: Speech recognition info wanted
Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 23:50:56 GMT

I have a "benchmark" called Rhosettastone which is anonymous FTP able
(at least the host eos.arc.nasa.gov in pub).  Tough problems.

--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
  Associate Editor, Software and Publication Reviews
  Scientific Programming
  {uunet,mailrus,other gateways}!ames!eugene
Seeking Books to buy:	Bongard, Pattern Recognition
			Imhof, Cartographic Relief Presentation
			Books on or by Benjamin Whorf
			Wulf et al, The Design of an Optimizing Compiler
From: bks@s27w007.pswfs.gov (Bradley K. Sherman)
Newsgroups: comp.speech
Subject: Source for text-to-speech
Date: 2 Oct 1992 22:39:15 GMT
Organization: Institute of Forest Genetics DataBase
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: s27w007.pswfs.gov

[Caveat: I used to work for these folks and still like them.]

Berkeley Speech Technologies is based in Berkeley, CA.
They have been producing text-to-speech systems for more
than a decade and have systems for several languages
(at least English, French, Spanish, Japanese?,  ...).

They used to sell "tool kits" for programmers who wanted
to add speech to products.  Their products used to be based
on Intel platforms.

I am using "used to" because I'm too busy to keep up
with their current posture in the marketplace.

You can reach them at:

Berkeley Speech Technologies
2246 6th St.
Berkeley, CA 94710

(510) 841-5083

------
    --Brad Sherman

How does your text to speech system do on this sentence?

 Dr. D.R. Knight, who lives at 123 St. James St., visited Mt. St. Helens.
From: nakano@suncom1.cs.shinshu-u.ac.jp (NAKANO Yasuaki)
Newsgroups: comp.speech
Subject: Re: Vocal Tract Data During Vowel Production
Date: 7 Oct 92 01:03:14 GMT
Reply-To: nakano@suncom1.cs.shinshu-u.ac.jp (NAKANO Yasuaki)
Organization: Dept. of Information Engineering, Shinshu Univ.,500 wakasato, Nagano, Japan

In article <1asfdqINNg0v@wugate.wustl.edu> cid@wupost.wustl.edu (Central Inst for the Deaf) writes:
>A scientist in my group is in need of vocal tract data, his "wish list"
>is as follows.
>
>(1) Midsaggital vocal tract images and/or measurements on
>midsaggital dimensions of vocal tracts from the glottis to the lips during
>vowel production. 
>(2) Corresponding first three formant frequencies and,
>hopefully, the fundamental frequency. 
>(3) Such data measured from either
>adult male or female subjects.  The data will be used to derive a midsaggital-
>to-area conversion method and to estimate formant conversion factors between
>male and female subjects. 

I don't know recent progress in speech analysis, because I abandoned
speech research many years ago. From my best memory, there was a book;

G.Fant, Acoustical Theory of Speech Production, with Calculation 
        based on X-Ray Studies of Russian Articulations,
        Mouton & Co., 's Gravenhage (1960).
FYI: 's Gravenhage means The Hague and Prof. Fant was with STL
     (Swedish Technological Laboratories ?).

The book includes what your colleague desires (male data only).

In late 1960's, researchers in Bell Lab. conducted some works for
vocal tract shape estimation from acoustical measurements. I don't
remember if they had ground truth data.
-- 
Yasuaki NAKANO
nakano@wakasato.cs.shinshu-u.ac.jp
From: pkingi@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.speech
Subject: Re: Speech recognition info wanted
Date: 7 Oct 92 12:00:08 +1300
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <1992Oct5.174714.1925@ultb.isc.rit.edu>, ajb8886@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
> 
> I'm no expert on the subject of speech recognition, but I have an intense
> personal interest in this field, as I lost a good part of my hearing in an 
> accident, and thus would like to find a viable (read: computer assisted) way 
> to understand the spoken word.
> 
> I would appreciate it if anyone would be willing to share any new information
> concerning developments in progress, either by mail or by posting here,
> whichever you prefer.
 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Alex


I am currently doing a project which attempts to teach people how to correctly
pronounce Maori (the first language of NZ) words with the help of speech 
recognition and have thus read up on related stuff. I have come across a
system known as - Video Voice - which is a speech training system and might be
of interest to you. This system is designed specifically for speech therapy.
There are other systems around but this one seems to be the most impressive one
I have come across. If you are interested, look them up at :

	Micro Video Corporation
	210 Collingwood, Suite 100
	P.O. box 7357
	Ann Arbor, MI 48107-7357

	(313) 996-0626


Ka kite ano,
Pat
Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: eha@phoenix (Esa Haapaniemi)
Subject: AnimMan and others
Summary: Amiga speech
Keywords: Amiga, animation, voice
Organization: University of Oulu, Finland
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 12:35:38 GMT

I'm somewhat interested in speach recognicion and computer generated speech.
As I'm mostly familiar with the programs on Commodore Amiga, and the
capabilities of it, I want to give some info to the new group.

Amiga: - Has 4 channel stereosound with up to 28 kHz sampling rate without
	 extra hardware. On accelerated Amigas that can be up to 56 kHz.
	 RS-323 port is capable of using many sound samplers available
	 for Amiga, and they are pretty cheap (PD documents available).
       - And I think most of you know that even the first Amiga had speech
	 synthetizing software on 1987. Now that has gotten a lot better...
	 The new SpeechToy2 is fully configurable text_to_speech program
	 that has a graphical interface, and suppports the new ECS and AGA
	 chips on Amigas.

Other software: There have been many different programs for Amigas to get
	 voice input/output. On -89 came out the first voice recognising
	 program that allowed computer controlling through spoken commands...
	 (for Amiga). As it wasn't very accurate, and was very limited in 
	 possibilities, it did't get much publicity. Mostly it was sold
	 as mouse/joystick replacement, and used by handicapped people to
	 control their equipment.
	 One demoprogram of Amigas capabilities in Speechsynthetizing is
	 AnimMan, that is a animated head, that speaks, learns many commands
	 trough some commercial soundsamplers, and does what it has been tought
	 to do (start programs, interface allowes really a lot of commands
	 to be given, and on multitasking machine it can run just well without
	 the need for specially written software). Also it can tell tales 
	 (user can write his own). And the program is really usable for such 
	 a small sice (about 300 k).
	 Also I have seen french, finnish and japanese speaking programs
	 on Amiga (all of them needeed some kind of text input, mostly
	 the direct text, and no phonems needeed). All of them (except
	 the french speaking program that one of my friends wrote) were
	 generating the speech totally by program. And the french spoken
	 program wasn't that good (though it could output the phonems
	 right from text) as it spoke like drunk with digitized sounds.

Maybe that's enough. Thanks for the bandwidth, and I hope to see more
quality software (PD or commercial) on my machine:)

Esa Haapaniemi
University of Oulu
Finlan
Newsgroups: comp.speech
Subject: Re: WANTED: ms-dos text-to-speech
From: harvey_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Date: 2 Oct 1992 12:45:46 GMT
Reply-To: harvey_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Organization: Wellington City Council (Public Access), Wgtn, Nz
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

In article <1992Oct2.060425.18579@uc.msc.edu>, eab@msc.edu (Edward Bertsch) writes:
>
>I am curious as to if there is any software available for ibm compatible
>machines running DOS (or window for that matter) that will do text to
>speech.  Ideally, it would be 'sampled' speech as opposed to that nasty
>sounding synthesized speech.  Also ideally, it would not require any
>additional hardware (i.e. it could use the built in speaker) but could
>take advantage of (for example) a sound blaster if it were present.
>
>It could be a stand alone program, although something integrated into
>terminal software would be very good.  (the intended application is
>for a blind guy interested in using a bbs)
All the Text to speach progs I have found in my searches seem to sound like
some sort of electronic chinaman speaking while gargling a glass of water (in
other words uninteligable :-)) 
There are programs specificaly *for* blind people that will read text as it
appears on the screen ( like the stuff for visualy impared people that prints
the current line huge at the bottom of the screen), but I can't remember any
names offhand....

Incedentaly, If it's well done, synthesized speech will sound much better than
sampled stuff as it will get the inflections right, whereas sampled stuff
tends to sound a little strange....

| Adrian Harvey       (Harvey_A@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz)|
|             Windows?  Just say NO!               |
Newsgroups: comp.speech
From: epstein@sparc9.cs.uiuc.edu (Milt Epstein)
Subject: Re: prosody
Keywords: prosody
Reply-To: epstein@cs.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 20:58:38 GMT

In <karenj.718267851@munagin> karenj@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Karen Jenkin) writes:

>I am curious about whether any prosody processing has been researched
>in speech recogntion (more specifically phonemes).
>The analysis of prosody could also be being used in the "voice-stress"
>experiments recently discussed in this group.
>
>Can anyone direct me to some refs. or ftp sites on the subject of prosody?

Perhaps I'm not understanding quite what you're after, but maybe
you'll find the following useful:

Where learning begins: initial representations for language learning
Lila R. Gleitman, Henry Gleitman, Barbara Landau, and Eric Wanner
in
Linguistics: The Cambridge Surveys (Newmeyer)
III Language: Phsychological and Biological Aspects

It is an overview/summary article of a large area of research, and
parts of it summarize some research into how prosody affects speech
understanding (from a psychological point of view).

-- 
Milt Epstein
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois
epstein@cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.speech