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From: jxm@engin.umich.edu (John Murray)
Subject: Re: (Request) Advice on AI text for non-CS majors
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 08:38:19 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Distribution: comp

In article <RMT.92Oct5223825@kepler.unh.edu> rmt@cs.unh.edu (Roy M. Turner) writes:
>
>I got roped into, er, I mean, I have the honor of teaching an Honors course in
>"High Technology" (whatever that means) in the Spring.  I would like to teach
>the students about AI without making them learn Lisp and programming in
>general.  I may just go ahead and use Rich and Knight as a text and talk them
>through hairy (to them) parts, but I was wondering if anyone else has tried
>teaching AI to non-CS types and, if so, what book he or she could recommend.
>

Since the course is in "High Technology", I assume that AI is only a 
smallish part of it. Why not use a more general interest book and borrow
some examples or problems from Rich & Knight etc? "The Cognitive Computer"
by Roger Schank and Peter Childers comes to mind, though being published
in 1984, it may seem a bit dated. You don't state whether the 'non-CS'
types are also non-science types. If they're mostly history and poli-sci
people, they might be turned off by Rich & Knight level stuff. 

J. Murray
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: watpod83@alfred.carleton.ca (Robert Telka)
Subject: AI, Chaos, Parallel Processing
Keywords: AI, A.I., Artificial Intelligence, Chaos, Parallel
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 03:59:49 GMT

Hello!

If you could help (in any way), my fellow class mates, including
myself, would be most grateful.

We are doing a term project involving Chaos in a Parallel Processing
environment, and how Artificial Intelligence can be applied.  We would
like, if possible, to speak with anyone who has any information which
he or she can provide, or E-mail addresses of people who are involved
with this area of topic, or any way of obtaining relevant material.
Also, any type of programming suggestions as to what we can do to demonstrate this topic of interest is also much appreciated.


The project is due by the end of November, thus everything will have
to be gathered quickly.

I think that it would be best if any information be forwarded to
me, Robert Telka, at: watpod83@alfred.carleton.ca

If you like, a posting of our results may be made available if there
is a large enough interest (or personal E-mail could be arranged).

Thank you very much in advance!

Robert Telka
School of Computer Science
Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Organization: Central Michigan University
Date: Saturday, 3 Oct 1992 07:58:22 EDT
From: <343DALN@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject:       SUGGESTION

Hello everybody,

Can somebody suggest me good books on predicate calculus and unification.





                                                                    reddy.

Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: hueske@iw.uni-hannover.de (Marc Hueske)
Subject: neuro-fuzzy-controller
Reply-To: hueske@iw.uni-hannover.de
Organization: Institut fuer Werkstoffkunde, Uni Hannover
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 13:27:25 GMT

Our project is to develop a Neuro-Fuzzy-Controller for an underwater vehicle
(ROV, AUV). We would like to know if there are any references about this or similar
subjects. Furthermore we are interested in PD-software about neuro-fuzzy.

Thanks,

Marc Hueske



Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.edu,comp.ai.neural-nets
From: ph36@unixg.ubc.ca (Richard Nistuk (phys 312))
Subject: Re: Has making a group for Genetic Algorithms been discussed?
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 01:38:21 GMT

In article <BvD31o.FwK@news.cso.uiuc.edu> nafpliot@ux2.cso.uiuc.edu (N.N.) writes:
>... has the idea of a group for 
>Genetic Algorithms been discussed?  Something like comp.ai.ga?  If not, 
>can this be discussed?  
>
>
>Thanks,
>Nicholas Nafpliotis

	I would be interested in "comp.ai.ga" as well.

Richard Nistuk  (physics 4th year)
ph36@unixg.ubc.ca
nistuk@troll.physics.ubc.ca
From: neves@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (David &)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Legality of Expert Systems
Date: 29 Sep 92 15:56:39 GMT
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Wade Schuette (schuette@wl.com) wrote:
: The FDA has done some thinking about this, in regard to what constitutes
: a medical device and who is responsible.  At the current time only a person
: is allowed to be responsible, or your software is a "medical device" if it
: makes decisions and alters the patient.  (excluding room thermostats, I guess.)

I had a student a few years ago who worked for a company that was in
the business of creating computer tools for hospitals.  I remember him
mentioning that it was quite difficult to get FDA approval for
anything that might change or interpret the data in any way (and I
think this included graphing it).  I don't know if this is still true
but it means that not only might these medical systems be on uncertain
legal ground when put into practice but they are difficult to get
licensed as well.

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From: diku0049@diku.dk (Gisli Rafn Olafsson=)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.edu,comp.ai.shells,comp.databases,comp.edu,comp.os.ms-window.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.programming,sci.comp-aided
Subject: Green technology - hypertext?
Summary: Should hypertext system be used to write a "database" for Green Technol
Keywords: hypertext, green technology, database
Date: 1 Oct 92 15:04:10 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen


	We are a group of gradute computer science student, who are
doing  a project in "Pratical Computer Science".  As a part of our
project, we are supposed to investigate others experiences with
similiar problems.
	We are writing a system for an energy and enveriomental agency
The system is supposed to help voulenteers that answer phone calls
from people, and have to give them answers about "green technology".
The current information is mainly in the form of texts in information
brochures and educational material.  It is very difficult to arrange
this information into defined structures.
	Our idea is to use a hypertext system to do this.  We would
like to get comments on that idea and other ideas on how to solve
this kind of a problem.  If any you have written a similiar system
we would very much like to hear about your experience.
	Please email answers to diku0049@ragnarok.diku.dk


Best regards,

Gisli Rafn Olafson
Jakob Enggaard
From: bob@sparkie.nrri.umn.edu (Robert I. Benett)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Parallel or Distributed Logic Programming
Date: 29 Sep 92 02:33:33 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: U of Minnesota, Natural Resources Research Institute


Hello,

I am investigating parallel or distributed processing of Logic programs.

Anyone have any suggestions for reading material??



Bob Bennett
bob@sparkie.nrri.umn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.robotics,sci.electronics
From: gat@forsight.jpl.nasa.gov (Erann Gat)
Subject: Re: Stiquito, A Small Nitinol-Propelled Robot
Keywords: Stiquito, Sticky (Stiquito's daddy), circuit reference, LLAs
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 00:24:05 GMT

In article <1992Sep26.173302.11547@news.cs.indiana.edu> "Jonathan Mills" <jwmills@moose.cs.indiana.edu> writes:
> the ftp access to the report is working.  Try building a Stiquito

I have been trying to connect to cs.indiana.edu now for about a week with
no success.  Has anyone else managed to connect?  I've tried both during on
and off hours (noon and after 5 PM Pacific time).  Suggestions welcome.

Thanks,
Erann Gat
gat@robotics.jpl.nasa.gov

Newsgroups: comp.compression
From: rschnapp@metaflow.com (Russ Schnapp)
Subject: Re: LHa 1.01u for Unix (was: Re: Lha for Unix)
Organization: Metaflow Technologies Inc.
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 01:26:55 GMT

In article <1992Oct2.162130.9507@riacs.edu>, roelofs@pan.arc.nasa.gov (Cave Newt) writes:
|> gt8741b@prism.gatech.edu (Chris Adams) writes:
|> I just sent a cleaned-up, (at least partially) bug-fixed version
|> to Keith Petersen of the Simtel20 archives.  It's LHa 1.01u, and
|> it's on Simtel or any of its mirror sites (see just about any posting
|> in comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives for full site names).  The actual
|> filespec is probably something like pd8:[misc.unix]lha101u.tar-z on
|> Simtel, something similar on the mirrors.

I'd appreciate it if someone who knows the precise site name and
path would post them here.  I don't have direct internet access, but
I can ask uunet to ftp the file and uucp it to me, if I have the
precise info.

-- 

...Russ Schnapp
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From: keven@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Keven Ring)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: ARJ 2.39 FTP site
Date: 5 Oct 92 01:53:17 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA

blom@husc8.harvard.edu (Eric Blom) writes:
> For those of you who are interested, ARJ 2.39a is available for FTP at
> "ftp.germany.eu.net" in the "pub/comp/msdos/arcers" directory.  I didn't
> stay on very long to see what other arcers were online, but I imagine the
> selection is pretty good.
> 
> Again, ARJ 2.39a is FASTER than 2.30.  Much faster.
> 
> Sorry about not including my address in my previous post.  I can be
> reached either as "blom@husc8.harvard.edu" or as "71172.2515@compuserve.com"

WARCHIVE also has it in /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS as of 10/4/92 at 10:00pm

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Newsgroups: comp.compression
From: robjung@world.std.com (Robert K Jung)
Subject: LZ-JUNG patent
Summary: Follow-up to comments on LZ-JUNG patent
Keywords: patent compression
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 20:40:03 GMT

FYI, concerning the LZ-JUNG patent which is very similar to LZRW3 by Ross
Williams, the legal date of invention of the LZ-JUNG algorithm preceded the
publication of LZRW3 by almost ONE YEAR.  The actual application for 
patent occurred shortly after the LZRW3 publication. 

I hope this clears up a few misunderstandings about the sequence of events.
From: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: The hunt for latest versions of PKZip, Arj, Zoo.
Keywords: HELP
Date: 29 Sep 92 09:02:42 GMT
Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht

In <bontchev.717692437@fbihh> bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev) writes:

>nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries) writes:

>> BTW only ARJ 2.30NG (no garble) is available on garbo. For the 2.30

>Which is rather silly, because the encryption in ARJ is just TRIVIAL
>to break, using a known-plaintext attack. The encryption on PKZIP (and

I have heard this before (and actually I agree). Yet noone ever cracked
$100.ARJ. Why???

>in Info-ZIP) is -much- stronger, yet the archive zcrypt19.zip -is-
>available from garbo... Maybe Prof. Timo Salmi could enlighten us
>about this decision?

I can't answer for him of cource. I think however it has to do with
the intentions of the origional posting. The poster of ZIP (and his
countryw3) have no problems with the encryption code in ZIP. So
it can be placd on garbo. Same for PGP etc. All programs for which 
the USA wouldn't allow export, but since they didn't export it
these files can be on garbo. ARJ however has a special export version
of ARJ and officially no other version should leave the USA (yes
I know everyone, including me, has the real version). I can imagine
garbo respecting this.

>Vesselin

Nico E. de Vries
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From: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: pkzip 3.05
Date: 5 Oct 92 10:30:28 GMT
Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht

In <16873F57A.MKUNZE1@ibm.gwdg.de> MKUNZE1@ibm.gwdg.de writes:
>In article <bontchev.717164929@fbihh>
>>Don't expect PKZIP. Period. :-)

>Indeed, will PKZIP 2.0 ever be released to a broad public?
>First rumours told it to be released May this year, then July
>now November...i'll need to switch to ARJ if things keep on going
>like this!

Current rumours are end october, begin november.

Switching away from PKZIP might be a good idea. PKZIP 1.10 is slow,
compresses less than e.g. ARJ 2.30, it is unreliable (some files
can not be compressed wihout damaging them) has less features
(althought ARJ might have too much).
PERHAPS PKZIP 2.0 will be the best for a few months but if it is
bypassed be competition again who is going to believe them if
they promise a better version soon?

Nico E. de Vries
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From: markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca (MARC PAULIN)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: The New Archiver from Sweden
Keywords: archiver compression SQZ Squeeze data_compression
Date: 29 Sep 92 13:40:30 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Universite de Moncton

In article <1992Sep29.062604.23042@unlinfo.unl.edu> vporguen@unlinfo.unl.edu (victor porguen) writes:
>From: vporguen@unlinfo.unl.edu (victor porguen)
>Subject: The New Archiver from Sweden
>Keywords: archiver compression SQZ Squeeze data_compression
>Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 06:26:04 GMT

>Writes Ian Nelson (ian@bvsd.co.edu):

>       
>I have the archive (SQZ). If someone can direct me to an ftp site
>where I can upload it with little hassle (make that: with NO
>hassle), I'll be happy to make it available to all.


	Is it possible you could uuencode it and post it here?  Or send it 
to me via email?  markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca

Thanks
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Newsgroups: comp.compression
From: rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
Subject: Re: The hunt for latest versions of PKZip, Arj, Zoo.
Keywords: HELP
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 17:15:17 GMT

In article <bontchev.717692437@fbihh> bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de writes:
>nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries) writes:
>
>> BTW only ARJ 2.30NG (no garble) is available on garbo. For the 2.30
>
>Which is rather silly, because the encryption in ARJ is just TRIVIAL
>to break, using a known-plaintext attack. The encryption on PKZIP (and
>in Info-ZIP) is -much- stronger, yet the archive zcrypt19.zip -is-
>available from garbo... Maybe Prof. Timo Salmi could enlighten us
>about this decision?

I'm not Timo Salmi but one of the Info-ZIP group members. The difference
is that zcrypt19.zip was written outside the U.S. so it can be freely
distributed (worldwide). The ARJ encryption code was (to my knowledge, I
don't care much about ARJ besides tracking it's advances in compression
ratio and speed) written in the U.S. and can't be exported from the U.S.
for this reason. At least, Robert Jung lives in the U.S. ...

Kai Uwe Rommel

/* Kai Uwe Rommel --- rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de */

DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
handler, and always will be.                -Russell Williams
From: pierre@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Need info on archive locations.
Date: 3 Oct 92 06:35:19 GMT


Can someone help me with locating archiver/unarchivers for files in:

ZOO	(ZOO)
ARC	(PKPAK)
PAK	(PAK)
DWC	(DWC)
LZH	(LHA)


I would like to test their performance on various data, etc.  Ultimately I may
use them on my BBS so that I can convert files that I pickup from ftp sites.

Also I would love to here any comments on ZOO210.EXE.  I picked that of 
SIMTEL20, ran it, and received a CRC ERROR. Twice.

My thanx & regards,
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From: s2434178@techst02.technion.ac.il (Ohad Burstein)
Newsgroups: comp.compression,comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: need a decomp for Mac disk doubler
Date: 3 Oct 92 22:32:36 GMT
Organization: Technion, Israel Inst. of Technology

Hi,
I need a program that will open Mac disk doubler files in a dos or unix
environment. Also I could use its source or any technical specifications
of the compression. Could anyone please tell me where to find this or can
anyone send it to me?

Thanks in advance,
Ohad
Newsgroups: comp.compression
From: pullin@mail.physics.utah.edu (Jorge Pullin)
Subject: Problems with CR-LF with compression in Unix,decompression in DOS
Reply-To: pullin@mail.physics.utah.edu
Organization: University of Utah, Department of Physics
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 14:05:18 GMT

Hello

I compress a text file in my unix workstation (IBM RS6000 AIX 3.2, standard
compress command generating a .Z file), transfer it by Kermit (binary mode)
to my PC, where I decompress it with comp430.

It happens that the CR-LF (or whatever makes a line of text finish and go to
a new line) in the original file get replaced by something else (maybe a CR
alone?, it appears in my editor as a little square). In summary, my text
file appears all in a single line.

Is this a usual problem, or is it due to the particular combination of 
compressor/transmitter/decompressor used?

Please reply by email, I can summarize if there is interest.

Thanks in advance.
Regards.
Jorge

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Newsgroups: comp.compression
From: rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: arj239.exe/arj
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 18:06:10 GMT

Craig.Humphrey@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Craig Andrew Humphrey) writes:
>I've just spotted arj239.exe & arj239.arj on wuarchive.wustl.edu in 
>/pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS.   Does anyone know if these are OK or just another prankster
>trying to passs of a trojan/virus.  And I would presume that arj239.arj is
>compressed with the old (230) version.

They're the ARJ 2.39 beta for ARJ 2.40.  Very nice - compresses better
and runs faster, quite a bit faster actually.  I wouldn't trust it
till 2.40 comes out, but it's good for speed tests.
-- 
Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage.
From: henrik@stat.tamu.edu (Henrik Schmiediche)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: arj239.exe/arj
Date: 29 Sep 92 18:29:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: tamsun.1992Sep29.182906.14002
Organization: Department of Statistics, TAMU

In article <BvBMxy.J54@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Craig.Humphrey@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Craig Andrew Humphrey) writes:
>
>I've just spotted arj239.exe & arj239.arj on wuarchive.wustl.edu in 
>/pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS.   Does anyone know if these are OK or just another prankster
>trying to passs of a trojan/virus.  And I would presume that arj239.arj is
>compressed with the old (230) version.
>
>Craig.

I can confirm that arj239 is a official Beta test release of arj 2.4
sceduled to be released soon. The main purpose of this release is not
increased compression, but increased speed and ofcourse a few new
switches.... 

    - Henrik

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Newsgroups: comp.compression
From: rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: pkzip 3.05
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 19:07:58 GMT

davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
>In article <rdippold.718146185@cancun>, rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
>| This year?  Heck, in the summer of last year when I switched to ARJ, I
>| was told that was a really stupid thing to do because "The new PKZIP
>| is almost out."

>ARJ is useful only if you operate exclusively in the MS-DOS environment,
>since ARJ compression is only available there (I've heard there's an
>OS/2 version, never actually saw it). There are ARJ extractors for other
>systems, but I don't believe there's a compressor.

I use ARJ for my MS-DOS stuff, and when I need to do PC/Unix stuff I
use Info-ZIP.  Good compromise.
-- 
Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixed metaphors.
Newsgroups: comp.compression
From: ossip@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Ossip Kaehr)
Subject: ccitt t.6 pictures, anybody??
Summary: where can I find the pictures for the T.6 spec??
Keywords: fax group4 ccitt compression
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Distribution: 'worldwide'
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 21:21:41 GMT

hello everybody!!

I successfully found the ccitt group 3 and 4 fax specs
at src.doc.ic.ac.uk, (as stated in the faq, thanx!!)
but there is no folder containing the graphics (the 't' folder
is missing).
also the postscript versions don't come out correctly in my previewer
(the tables are partially wheird).

so: does anybody know where to find them, or can send me such.

thanks in advance.
(reply be email if possible)


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