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From: ylkingsb@icr.uwaterloo.ca ()
Subject: ICR Presents a Technical Presentation on "AIX and the IBM RISC System/6000 Update", on Tuesday, November 24, 1992, at 10:30 am in DC 1302.
Keywords: Presenters:  Mr. Joseph Potworka and Mr. Jim Davey, IBM Canada Ltd.
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: ont
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:44:34 GMT



                   The University of Waterloo
                      200 University Avenue
                        Waterloo, Ontario


           The Institute for Computer Research (ICR)

             Presents a Technical Presentation on

             AIX and the IBM RISC System/6000 Update



Presenters:     Mr. Joseph Potworka          
		AIX Technical Workstation Specialist
                IBM Canada Ltd.

                Mr. Jim Davey                 
		AIX Technical Support Specialist
                IBM Canada Ltd.


Date:   Tuesday, November 24, 1992
Time:   10:30 a.m.
Place:  William G. Davis Computer Research Centre, Room 1302



ABSTRACT

IBM's RISC System/6000 family of technical workstations  continu-
ously  leads  in  reliability and price/performance. Recently IBM
announced new models, more upgrade paths, more supported  devices
and  a  strong  leadership in the 'Open Systems' marketplace. New
software products announcements lead the  way  for  research  and
system management areas with new enhancements to the IBM AIX XL C
++ compiler, selected Fortran 90 functions  for  the  XL  Fortran
Compiler  and  new  products  such  as  UNITREE  for  file server
enhancements. This latest set of announcements also  include  the
Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) Base services and the En-
cina product family as the first vendor with products in the dis-
tributed computing environment.

IBM Canada will be providing a presentation/discussion on the la-
test  enhancements  to  the  RISC System/6000 product family. The
agenda will include a brief summary on the  latest  announcements
and  an  in-depth  presentation  on the OSF DCE strategy. The DCE
presentation will include base services, the Encina product fami-
ly and a Transaction Processing strategy.

Everyone is welcome.  Refreshments served.
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From: crocker@qucis.queensu.ca (Sandra Crocker)
Subject: A.I. and Robotics Seminar... TIME AND DATE
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: Human-Machine Interfaces (including haptic and auditory),
Organization: Computing & Information Science, Queen's University
Distribution: ont
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:18:00 GMT

Please note time and date for the previously posted Seminar
"Human-Machine Interfaces for Virtual-Enironment and Teleoperator Systems"


Wednesday, November 25th 3:30pm (please note time change) 
Walter Light Hall
Room 210


Thank you

.

Newsgroups: ont.events
From: sekuler@psych.toronto.edu (Allison Sekuler)
Subject: PERCEPTION: Nov 20 (Rivest)
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
Distribution: ont
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:12:51 GMT


              * RESEARCH GROUP IN PERCEPTION *


        
                       JOSEE RIVEST
                     York University 


"INTER-ATTRIBUTE INTERACTION FOR LOCALIZATION OF CONTOURS."


              3 pm, Friday, November 20, 1992  
  Room 317, 1 Spadina Crescent, St. George Campus, U of T





All are welcome. Donut holes will be provided.
For more information, contact Allison Sekuler at:
978-1537 or sekuler@psych.toronto.edu
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From: culhane@vis.toronto.edu (Sean Culhane)
Subject: Berthold K.P. Horn, Tuesday 01 December 1992: VISION
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Distribution: ont
Date: 23 Nov 92 19:56:43 GMT

           Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
            (LP = D. L. Pratt Building, 6 King's College Road)

       -------------------------------------------------------------

                                  VISION
               LP266, at 2:00 p.m., Tuesday 01 December 1992

                            Berthold K.P. Horn
                   Massachusetts Institute of Technology

                     "Analog VLSI for Machine Vision"


Analog VLSI has the potential for fast, small, low power, cheap front end
vision processing that does not require a great deal of support circuitry.
But it is hard to compete head on with digital VLSI, which has a much longer
development history.  So merely implementing existing algorithms --- which 
were developed in the context of sequential digital machines --- is not a 
good idea.  One needs to find ways to exploit the medium.  What are analog 
networks good at computing?  Several devices have been built that exploit 
properties of resistive sheets, theorems for converting area integrals into 
contour integrals, properties of Gaussian integers, switched capacitor 
networks and so on.  Possibly the most promising area is in real-time 
feed-back involving motion vision, where the long latency of competing 
pipelined digital systems is deadly.
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From: veronica@cs.toronto.edu (Veronica Archibald)
Subject: Peter F. Brown, 10 December 1992: AI
Date: 17 Nov 92 22:22:47 GMT


           Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
              (GB = Galbraith Building, 35 St. George Street)

       -------------------------------------------------------------

                                    AI
                  GB221, at 11:00 a.m., 10 December 1992

                              Peter F. Brown
                   IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

             " A Statistical Approach to Machine Translation "

 In 1949, Warren Weaver proposed that statistical techniques from the
 emerging field of information theory might make it possible to use
 modern digital computers to translate text from one natural language
 to another automatically.  Although Weaver's scheme foundered on the
 rocky reality of the limited computer resources of the day, we feel
 that the increase in computer power over the last forty years makes
 reasonable a new look at the applicability of statistical techniques
 to translation.

 We have developed a rudimentary model of the translation process and
 have used it to construct a glossary of English words and French
 phrases.  We assume that each English word is either deleted during
 translation, or used to produce one or more French words.  We further
 assume that if French words are produced for an English word, then
 each is produced independently of the rest and depends only on the
 English word itself.  Finally, all of the French words are shuffled
 around in the sentence in a way that depends on the position of the
 English words in the English sentence.

 We have also implemented a procedure for searching for the most
 probable English translation of a French sentence and have used this
 procedure to attain preliminary translation results.

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From: Kaizhong Zhang <kzhang@csd.uwo.ca>
Subject: Colloq. Wednesday, November 25, 1992 at 2:00pm
Organization: Relayed-by-Sendmail
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:40:38 GMT
To: 42131_3665@uwovax.uwo.ca, KIRBY@VAXR.SSCL.UWO.CA, allcs@csd.uwo.ca,
        brenda@engrg.uwo.ca, creider@csd.uwo.ca, dawes@uwovax.uwo.ca,
        eagleson@uwovax.uwo.ca, elmarag@uwovax.uwo.ca, grads@csd.uwo.ca,
        hugh@engrg.uwo.ca, jjiang@uwovax.uwo.ca, m.kinnucan@uwo.ca,
        marcu@csd.uwo.ca, ont.events@newshost.uwo.ca, tague@uwo.ca,
        undergrads@gaul.csd.uwo.ca, uwo.general@newshost.uwo.ca,
        wy@apmaths.uwo.ca, zakaria@csd.uwo.ca


          The University of Western Ontario
            Department of Computer Science

                    COLLOQUIUM

Speaker: Bernard A. Nadel
Title:   Artificial Intelligence in the Automated Design of
         Automobile Power Transmissions:
         A Collaborative Research Project with Ford Motor Co.
Time:    Wednesday, November 25, 1992, at 2:00pm
Place:   MC 320
Abstracts:
    This talk describes our system called TRANS-FORM for automating
    the process of designing automobile power transmissions. The work
    is being conducted in collaboration with the Ford Motor Company
    Advanced Transmission Design Department in Livonia, Michigan.
    Our current focus is on the design of the mechanical subsystem, but
    we anticipate extending this later to the electrical and hydraulic
    subsystems also.

    TRANS-FORM uses Constraint-Directed Reasoning to perform
    transmission design in a hierarchy of abstraction levels. These levels
    will ultimately include the functional, abstract state, kinematic,
    topological, stick-diagram, geometric and gearset levels. Design at
    three of these levels, kinematic, topological and gearset, has so far
    been implemented and will be described in this talk.

    TRANS-FORM has been able to rediscover all known transmission
    of the type explored, including the well-known Axod, HydraMatic
    700 and Jatco transmissions as well as an extended version of the
    well-known Simpson transmission. These are built from two
    planetary gearsets and have four forward speeds and one reverse
    speed. Future generalizations will allow transmissions
    with three and four gearsets and an arbitrary number of speeds.
    Such transmissions are relatively little- explored, and the
    corresponding extensions to TRANS-FORM should allow it to be
    generating patentable new designs in the near future.
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From: veronica@cs.toronto.edu (Veronica Archibald)
Subject: Ray Reiter, 3 December 1992: AI
Date: 17 Nov 92 22:19:10 GMT


           Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
              (GB = Galbraith Building, 35 St. George Street)

       -------------------------------------------------------------

                                    AI
                   GB221, at 11:00 a.m., 3 December 1992

                                Ray Reiter
  University of Toronto and The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

             " HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE THE SITUATION CALCULUS "

The situation calculus has had a bad press in AI circles, and no press at
all in the computer science community at large. This talk attempts to set
the record straight. I shall argue that, contrary to the prevailing view in
AI, the situation calculus is an extremely valuable formalism for
representing and reasoning about change, provided a suitable solution to
the frame problem has been found. Towards that end, I shall first describe
an approach to the frame problem suitable for primitive, determinate
events.  On the basis of these ideas, I shall then describe three
applications:

1. Specifying database evolution.

2. Procedure specifications in software engineering (joint work with Alex
   Borgida and John Mylopoulos).

3. A theory of complex events, defined in terms of primitive,
   determinate events. This provides the basis of a novel programming
   language for discrete event simulation and the control of high-level
   robot actions (joint work with Hector Levesque and Fangzhen Lin).
From: root@inrealm.uucp (Root Account)
Newsgroups: ont.test
Subject: test 2
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 00:09:34 EST
Organization: Inner Realm

This is also a test.

Newsgroups: bnr.test,ont.test
From: lewis@bnrmtl.bnr.ca (Pierre LEWis)
Subject: Weekly test of outgoing news path (ignore)
Reply-To: lew@bnr.ca (Pierre LEWis)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Montreal, Canada
Distribution: can
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 06:01:05 GMT

Quote of the week:

   Personally, I prefer "UNIX is a bell of AT&T Trademark Laboratories"
   which is I believe due to Chris Torek.

This is *only* a test, *please* ignore :-)!
-- 
Pierre LEWIS    +1 514 765-8207      ESN 852-8207
Internet: lew@bnr.ca                 Corwan: lewis@bnrmtl

Implementing standards is like walking on water -- both work best when frozen.
Newsgroups: ont.test
From: dave@revcan.rct.ca (David Blackwood)
Subject: test
Organization: Revenue Canada, Taxation; Office Communications Division
Distribution: ont
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:06:04 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Summary: just testing
Keywords: test

just testing
-- 
D. J. Blackwood			Room 1139, 400 Cumberland Street
Systems Integration Manager	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada  K1A 0L8
Office Communications Division	voice: +1 613 957 9305, fax: +1 613 952 1095
Revenue Canada, Taxation	email: uunet.ca!revcan!dave, dave@revcan.rct.ca
From: root@inrealm.uucp (Root Account)
Newsgroups: ont.test
Subject: test
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 00:08:56 EST
Organization: Inner Realm

This is a test.
Newsgroups: ont.test
From: Marc Moorcroft <smarry@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Testing
Organization: ZOOiD BBS
Distribution: tor
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 03:13:03 GMT

East is east, and test is test..
Newsgroups: bnr.test,ont.test
From: pete@mudhead.uottawa.ca (Pete Hickey)
Subject: Re: Weekly test of outgoing news path (ignore)
Organization: Computing & Comm. Services, University of Ottawa
Distribution: can
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 21:50:10 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.060105.19891@bnrmtl.bnr.ca> lew@bnr.ca (Pierre LEWis) writes:
>
>This is *only* a test, *please* ignore :-)!
>-- 
Sorry, but I can't.  Got to test replying.

-- 
Pete Hickey               | Pete@mudhead.uottawa.CA | "The trouble with eating
Communication Services    |   or (if desperate)     |  Italian food is that in
University of Ottawa      | petehic@uottawa.bitnet  |  five or six days, you're
Ottawa,Ont. Canada K1N 6N5|  (613) 564-7646         |  hungry again" G. Brown
Newsgroups: ont.jobs,can.jobs,kw.jobs,misc.jobs.resumes,tor.general,ott.general
From: jwaustin@bcars182.UUCP (John Austin)
Subject: Re: CS Master's grad seeks NLP/AI/Technical Writing Position (Canada)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:20:21 GMT

In article <Bxy5Hn.1EJ@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca>, kim@watnow.uwaterloo.ca (T. Kim Nguyen) writes:
|> It's obvious to me that people at BNR seem to have too much time on
|> their hands.

That really isn't pertinent to anything. 

|>  Please keep your obnoxious opinions off the net,
|> especially as they don't belong in all the above *.jobs groups you
|> irresponsibly crossposted to.

To leave room for yours I take it? Did you have anything of value to add to
the discussion ? Note that my news software just picked up the list from
Mr. Shelley's original posting. (You used the same list fella).

I decided to let the issue die until you dragged it up so I'll summarize
my obnoxious opinion. I really hate to see some young person miss out on 
employment opportunities because they did a poor job on a cover letter.
To be fairI went back and read the whole thing and quite frankly the 
guy makes himself sound like a Vulcan ( mythical creature from popular TV
science fiction series).

I wanted to point out some flaws in the resume to stimulate a rework. I don't
think I made a personal attack.I didn't tell him to study Cobol or IDMS/R.
All I suggested was that he rework the tone to achieve the effect he desires
(which is a job interview). I apologize for my footsoldier metaphor which seems
to have gone over his head but this also serves to prove that people don't
always read what you thinkyou wrote.

(Kind of makes me wonder why I bother to contribute to the old alma mater when
they call me up.)

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------BNR don't care what I say as long as I don't say it to a customer. They do
 however, match my financial contributions to UniWat alumni fundraising. 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Former Math person (74210803) 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: ont.jobs,can.jobs,kw.jobs,misc.jobs.resumes,tor.general,ott.general
From: aidler@sanjuan.UVic.CA (E Alan Idler)
Subject: Re: CS Master's grad seeks NLP/AI/Technical Writing Position (Canada)
Organization: University of Victoria
Distribution: na
Date: 20 Nov 92 03:08:27 GMT

jwaustin@bcars182.UUCP (John Austin) writes:

>In article <Bxy5Hn.1EJ@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca>, kim@watnow.uwaterloo.ca (T. Kim Nguyen) writes:

>|>  Please keep your obnoxious opinions off the net,
>|> especially as they don't belong in all the above *.jobs groups you
>|> irresponsibly crossposted to.

>I wanted to point out some flaws in the resume to stimulate a rework. I don't
>think I made a personal attack.I didn't tell him to study Cobol or IDMS/R.
>All I suggested was that he rework the tone to achieve the effect he desires
>(which is a job interview). I apologize for my footsoldier metaphor which seems
>to have gone over his head but this also serves to prove that people don't
>always read what you thinkyou wrote.

I know this isn't a discussion oriented group ...,
but I'm plunging ahead into the discussion anyhow.

I believe the grad seeking employment might
profit from John Austin's comments, especially
if his initial applications don't yield many
interviews.

However, John could probably learn how to
phrase his suggestions so that they are likely
to be considered in a more positive light.
I hope he doesn't conduct code reviews ...

A IDLER
Newsgroups: ont.jobs
From: BJ MacGowan (bmcgowan@alias.com)
Subject: Employement Opportunity
Organization: Alias Research Inc.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:38:14 GMT

Design Vision, a Toronto based computer graphics
software dealer for Alias Research Inc. ,is looking for an
experienced Alias operator for placement at one
of their customer installations. (Industrial designers)

For further information, please contact: Duncan Lewis
at (416) 585-2020.

Please do not contact me directly. 
Xref: sparky ont.jobs:449 can.jobs:714
From: mmt@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: ont.jobs,can.jobs
Subject: HCI position (Kingston, Ont)
Date: 16 Nov 92 20:07:07 GMT
Followup-To: ont.jobs
Distribution: can
Organization: Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine


I am posting this on behalf of a contractor.  Please do not reply to me.
Replies to daw@bhanu.andyne.on.ca (David Waugh)
================


			Position Available for
		Research in Human Computer Interaction



Established in 1976, Andyne Computing has been providing innovative software 
products and consulting services to industry and government for over 15 years. 
Building on applied research and development contracts in computer systems and 
software engineering, Andyne has established itself as a world leader in the 
development of graphical data access and reporting tools.

Andyne currently has an opening for a full time research assistant. Andyne 
performs research in two main areas, Formal Systems and Verification, and Human 
Computer Interaction. Our research in HCI covers a wide range of issues, but
focuses primarily in the area of multimodal dialogue and the development of
tools to augment the process of dialogue analysis, and design of user
interfaces. Various methods and tools are used during our research and 
include Object Oriented Technology, (OOA, OOD, and implementation in 
Smalltalk 80 and Smalltalk/V, Nexpert Object, and Prograph); Unix utilities 
including sed, awk, and perl; C (both MPW C and Think C), HyperCard, and 
Excel. Hardware includes Macintosh and Sun Workstations. The ideal 
candidate would possess education in the areas of Computer Science, Psychology,
and Mathematics. A candidate with a post graduate degree is preferred, but 
strong candidates with an undergraduate degree will also be given serious 
consideration. We are looking for individuals who have research experience, 
are self starters, can work independently on a variety of tasks, and can 
communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.  Familiarity with at 
least some of the above methods, tools, and hardware is essential. 

This position will initially involve a significant amount of analysis, 
design, and programming. Applicants should indicate clearly on a cover 
letter the relevant experience they would bring to this position and salary 
expectations.

Qualified, interested individuals should send a resume and cover letter to the 
attention of:


David Waugh
Andyne Computing Limited
552 Princess St.
Kingston, Ontario
K7L 1C7
Phone: 613 548 4355
Fax: 613 548 7801
email: daw@bhanu.andyne.on.ca


-- 
Martin Taylor (mmt@ben.dciem.dnd.ca ...!uunet!dciem!mmt) (416) 635-2048
Beauty being skin deep, it would seem that the hippopotamus has an
epidermal advantage that it has somehow failed to exploit. (Jack Kent)
Newsgroups: ont.jobs
From: admin@uunet.ca (UUNET Canada)
Subject: tech support position available
Organization: UUNET Canada
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 03:18:42 GMT

We are looking for a front-line Technical Support person with some
background in Systems and Network administration.  

If you are a quick learner, good with people, creative, self-directed,
and able to deal with interrupt-driven demands, you'll probably be one
of the top candidates.  If you know from experience that modems are cranky
beasts, you've dealt with the oddities of TCP/IP network implementation,
been thrilled at configuring a couple of mail systems, and have had to
answer to a normally happy customer base ("users"), you're almost ideal.
If you also have some organizational skills, we'll be even more delighted.

UUNET Canada provides internet services to a wide range of customers, from
the basement hobbyist to the largest organizations.  We maintain and are
expanding a wide area network to provide local access to our services in
the major population areas.

If you're interested, please contact us directly by E-mail to this account.
Newsgroups: ont.jobs
From: dan@engrg.uwo.ca (Dan Corrin)
Subject: Research Positons in Engineering
Organization: DA&MRL, Engineering, UWO, London Ont. CA
Distribution: ont
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:17:59 GMT
Followup-To: /dev/null

Research Positions are available immediately at
The Design Automation and Manufacturing Research Laboratory.
at The University of Western Ontario, London.

Research positions are available for Research Engineers (or Computer 
Science), Post Doct-orates, and Graduate Students in one or more of the 
following manufacturing and mechanical design research areas:

o	CAPP (Computer aided process planning): Emphasis is in knowledge 
	based methods for generative process planning for manufacturing, 
	machining, and assembly.

o	Rigid and flexible multibody system dynamics and robotics control & 
	trajectory planning (Analytical, computer-based, and experimental)

o	Mechanical tolerancing: GD&T (geometric dimensioning and tolerancing), 
	with geometric and feature based modelling.

o	Feature based modelling for design and manufacturing.

o	Computer software development assistant: "C", object oriented 
	languages (C++), and expert system programming.

Interested applicants should call, write, or FAX the Director immediately, 
with copies of their CV and names of three references.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

DA&M Research laboratory conducts long term basic research as well as applied 
research in the areas of design and manufacturing automation.

Current activities: Design, Robotics and Control, Manufacturing, Dynamics.

CONTACT

Prof. W.H. ElMaraghy, Ph.D., P. Eng.
Director
Design Automation & Manufacturing Research Laboratory
Faculty of Engineering Science
The University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5B9
Tel: (519) 661-3121
Fax: (519) 661-3375
E-Mail: w.elmaraghy@uwo.ca

-- 
Dan Corrin, Network Manager, Mechanical Engineering, UWO
dan@engrg.uwo.ca                      ...!watmath!julian!engrg!dan
"That Lame-brained freeway idea could only be cooked up by a 'toon" 
                             -Eddie (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
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