HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: pa222061@academ01.mty.itesm.mx (ROSAS AGUILAR CLAUDIO)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Info about Eurisko
Date: 11 Dec 92 23:14:24 GMT



  Hi everyone:

     I'm looking information about EURISKO project
     made by Doug Lenat. So I'll apreciate any 
     information about it.

     Thanks in advance.

                 Claudio
From: amarger@lisp.irit.fr (Stephane AMARGER)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Email adresses at Edinburgh?
Date: 15 Dec 92 09:58:05 GMT
Organization: IRIT-UPS, Toulouse France

Hi AI lovers,

I am searching the email address of two researchers:

Weiru Liu and Alan Bundy

they work at Dept. of AI, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK

Can you help me?

Thanks to reply via email at the following address: amarger@ulb.ac.be or
amarger@irit.fr

Thank you
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Subject: Re: discussion with Penrose
Organization: Northern Illinois University
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:02:28 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.160050.9104@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> ginsberg@t.Stanford.EDU (Matthew L. Ginsberg) writes:
>
>1.  Penrose believes that his belief in mathematical sentences is
>special; there is something qualitatively different about his belief
>that e**(i pi) = -1, for example, than his belief that he has a stomach
>ache.
>
>2.  Penrose believes that strong AI (the claim that a Turing machine
>can pass the Turing test, for example) is false.
>
>3.  Penrose believes that (1) implies (2), and that the proof is
>basically as outlined in his book.
>
>I think Penrose is right about (3), but wrong about (1) (and therefore
>unjustified in concluding (2)).

Hmm.  I think Penrose is right about (1) but wrong about (3).  I wonder
how he persuaded you.  His "proof" is based on a belief that humans are
capable of doing things ruled out by the Goedel result.  I would say it
is this this belief which is more in the category of having a stomach
ache than in the category of exp(i pi) = -1.
Organization: Middle East Technical University - Computer Center
Date: Tuesday, 15 Dec 1992 17:01:10 TUR
From: <C88002@TRMETU.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Fuzzy Logic & Cement Industry

I need any kind of information on the application of Fuzzy Logic & Expert
Systems to the cement industry. Please, send me information about any
software, hardware and related references.
Thank you in advance....

Burak Tuzun
The Scientific & Technical Research Council of Turkey
Ankara Electronics Research & Development Institute
Middle East Technical University, 06531, Ankara, Turkey

e_mail: C88002@trmetu.bitnet
From: vinay@cs.toronto.edu ("Vinay K. Chaudhri")
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Questions on Concurrency Control for Knowledge Bases
Date: 20 Dec 92 19:07:35 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

In article <1992Dec20.183502.17178@dragon.acadiau.ca> 881244y@dragon.acadiau.ca (Choon Lin Yeo) writes:
>
>Hi , 
>
>	I have a few questions on the topic of CC methods for  
>Knowledge Bases: 
>
>1) What are the methods used for CC in the existing commercial  
>   knowledge bases? Example of how they are applied in this context.  
>

Commercial knowledge bases (aka expert system shells) *do not* support
multiple users.  If they do, they process the requests of one user at a
time.

>2) Are Timestamp Ordering (TO) and Two Phase Locking protocols feasible  
>   methods? 

As an initial solution, either of them can be implemented in a knowledge
base.  In the long term, I think, we need something better.  May be,
something, that uses the explicit semantic knowledge in a knowledge base.
>
>3) Which of these methods give a better performance in the context of 
>   knowledge base? 
>

This question has not been answered even in the context of databases, so
I do not expect any easy answers in the case of knowledge bases.  When
there is not much data contention in an application, it does not really
matter which algorithm you use.  When there is heavy contention but you
have unlimited resources (hardware and disks), then time stamp method 
(or optimistic methods are better).  In practice, you never have unlimited
resources, and under those conditions, locking performs better.

The conventional wisdom is that *Locking Works*.  Most successful commercial
database systems use locking. Locking is a commercially proven technology.
Therefore, I recommend locking based methods as a starting point.  This is 
not to say that other methods such as version-based methods are not interesting,
but the point is that for the other methods, more work needs to be done 
before they can be used in a knowledge base.


vinay.
From: PAUL.KONONENKO@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Paul Kononenko")
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: dummy
Date: 15 Dec 92 18:22:59 GMT
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs

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From: halightw@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca (H.A.L.)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Getting started in AI
Date: 15 Dec 1992 21:00:00 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Lakehead University; Thunder Bay, Ont

Greetings,

   I am a young programming taking comp sci. (1st year), who is facinated
with artificial intelligence.  I would be pleased to discover how I 
might get into the field, but my university seems to be rather lacking 
in anything to do with it.  I have already started my own 'research'
into pattern matching using PASCAL and matrices to store the information.
I am interested to know how 'REAL" ai programmers/engineers go about 
things though  and would like to get in on the action myself somehow.
Does anybody have any suggestions for me?

	Please mail me:   halightw@thunder.lakeheadu.ca

	                     - HAL (Yes, my real name is H.A.L.)   
From: Alex.Fitzpatrick@f27.n243.z1.fidonet.org (Alex Fitzpatrick)
Sender: fredmail@helldisk.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: AI obviously
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 14:04:12 -0500

   I was just wondering if anyone would be interested in hearing my latest pet
theory.

   If so, don't hesitate to write as this area is empty on the bbs I'm going
through...

   If not write anyway


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Newsgroups: comp.ai,sci.math.stat
From: bharat@cs.uiuc.edu (R. Bharat Rao)
Subject: Learning from subjective data
Keywords: machine learning, modeling
Reply-To: bharat@cs.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 06:45:25 GMT

Hello,
 
I was wondering if anyone knew of any work that has been done on
learning from subjective data.  For instance, you may have a data set
of events with a number of independent attribute (x1...xn) and a
single dependent attribute y.  However, y is a subjective rating.

For instance, the event could be a work of art and the x's could be
various nominal/real-valued attribues of the painting.  Then paintings
in the datasets would be given a grade on (say) beauty (the "y"
attribute) by a number of different "experts" (whose notions of
good/bad/indifferent obviously vary wildly).  Each painting would be
rated only once by a randomly chosen expert (from an arbitrarily large
pool of experts -- perhaps even a different expert for every
painting).  

The goal would be to try and learn something useful from this data
set.  I do not mean to apply that something meaningful could be
learned about art, but surely there would be other application like
quality control, etc.

Anyway, this seems to be a very interesting problem and I was
wondering if anyone could give me any pointers to any such work in the
ML or stats community.

Thanks in advance for any help.  Please post to comp.ai or send mail
to bharat@cs.uiuc.edu and I will summarize and post.

Bharat

-- 
R. Bharat Rao                         E-mail: bharat@cs.uiuc.edu
AI Group, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
405 N. Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801   (217)-333-5978 (O), 337-6498(H)
Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana
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From: brianm@boar.tansu.com.au (Brian Martin)
Subject: Re: Reference wanted: AI like computers in movies
Reply-To: brianm@boar.tansu.com.au
Organization: AOTC - CSSC
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 23:30:41 GMT


I don't know the reference, but I do know the most powerful computer in the
world was in the original TV series of Batman...
it had 3 on/off toggle switches, a few lights, and could solve AI problems
like "which bank will be robbed tomorrow & at what time ?" posed from voice input.
Strangely the output was produced on punched cards.
Now that's AI.
From: gasser@morue.usc.edu (Les Gasser)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: CFP: IJISAFM special issue
Date: 14 Dec 1992 12:14:43 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Reply-To: gasser@usc.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: morue.usc.edu


The International Journal of Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance 
and Management (IJISAFM) is a heavily refereed journal published by
John Wiley.  A special issue on "Mathematical and Computational Models
of Organizations: Models and Characteristics of Agent Behavior," is being
co-edited by Professors Kathleen Carley (Kathleen.Carley@centro.cs.cmu.edu --
Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University), Les Gasser
(Gasser@morue.usc.edu -- University of Southern California), Daniel 
O'Leary (oleary@mizar.usc.edu -- School of Business, University of Southern 
California) and Michael Prietula (mp2j@andrew.cmu.edu -- Carnegie Mellon
University, Graduate School of Industrial Administration).  Questions
regarding the issue can be directed to any of the co-editors.

The focus of papers can be on any aspect of mathematical and computational
models of organizations, with particular interest in multiple agent models.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
1. Under what conditions does an organization exhibit learning/intelligence
greater than the sum of its agents.

2. How does organization theory relate to mathematical and computational 
models of organizations?

3. How sophisticated to our models of intelligent agents need to be to 
generate realistic organizational results.

4. What does organization theory gain by using more sophisticated models 
of intelligent agents?

5. How should different types of agents be organized?

6. What is the impact of different types of negotiation straties between agnets ents
on organizational behavior?

7. What is the empirical behavior of mathematical approaches?

8. How can an organization exhibit learning/intelligence greater than the
sum of the behavior of its agents?

A broad base of research approaches are considered appropriate for consideration

As with all papers for the journal, four copies should be submitted to 

Daniel E. O'Leary
IJISAFM
School of Business
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1421

phone 213-740-4856

The deadline for papers is February 28, 1993.  


Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: joes@adpgate.UUCP (Joe Biehner)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: More help finding company info
Date: 16 Dec 92 20:00:58 GMT
Organization: ADP Dealer Services R&D, Portland, OR

Hello, again.

I forgot one of the companies I wanted information on.  This one is:

Quantum InKNOWvations of Cupertino, CA
product is ProGenesis


Same situation - Directory Assistance has no listing, etc.

Any information is greatly appreciated.
Thanks (again) in advance.


Joseph P. Tokarski
UNIX Network/System Implementation Specialist
ADP Dealer Services
1950 Hassell Road
Hoffman Estates,  IL  60195
From: marwan@ee.su.oz.au (Marwan A. Jabri, Sydney Univ. Elec. Eng., Tel: +61-2 692 2240)
Subject: Job Opportunity
Reply-To: marwan@ee.su.oz.au (Marwan A. Jabri, Sydney Univ. Elec. Eng., Tel: +61-2 692 2240)
Organization: Electrical Engineering, The University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:20:21 GMT

The University of Sydney
Department of Electrical Engineering
Systems Engineering and Design Automation Laboratory

Girling Watson Research Fellowship
Reference No. 51/12


Applications are invited for a Girling Watson Research Fellowship at
Sydney University Electrical Engineering. The applicant should have a
strong research and development experience, preferably with a background
in one or more of the following areas: machine intelligence and
connectionist architectures, microelectronics, pattern recognition and
classification.

The Fellow will work with the Systems Engineering and Design Automation
Laboratory (SEDAL), one of the largest laboratories at Sydney University
Electrical Engineering. The Fellow will join a group of 18 people (8 staff
and 10 postgraduate students). SEDAL currently has projects on pattern
recognition for implantable devices, VLSI implementation of connectionist
architectures, time series prediction, knowledge integration and
continuous learning, and VLSI computer aided design. The Research Fellow
position is aimed at:

o	contributing to the research program
o	helping with the supervision of postgraduate students
o	supporting some management aspects of SEDAL
o	providing occasional teaching support

Applicants should have either a PhD or an equivalent industry research and
development experience.  The appointment is available for a period of
three years, subject to satisfactory progress.

Salary is in the range of Research Fellow: A$39,463 to A$48,688.


Applications quoting the reference number 51/12 can be sent to:

	The Staff Office
	The University of Sydney
	NSW 2006
	AUSTRALIA


For further information contact

	Dr. M. Jabri, 
	Tel: (+61-2) 692-2240, 
	Fax: (+61-2) 660-1228, 
	Email: marwan@sedal.su.oz.au
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Marwan Jabri				  Email: marwan@ee.su.oz.au
SEDAL, Electrical Engineering,		      Tel: (+61-2) 692-2240
Sydney University, NSW 2006, Australia 	      Fax: (+61-2) 692-3847
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: yas@stan.xx.swin.oz.au (SEKERCIOGLU Y)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: QNN(tm) Neural-Fuzzy Combo : any information ?
Keywords: neural networks, fuzzy control, adaptive control, neural-fuzzy
Date: 14 Dec 92 04:46:47 GMT
Followup-To: comp.ai
Organization: Comp. Centre, Swinburne University of Tech., Melbourne, Australia

Dear Netters, 

I came across the mention of "QNN(tm) Neural-Fuzzy Combo" among the Motorola
Fuzzy Logic seminar notes. I assume this is a tool to help designing adaptive
controllers by using neural - fuzzy concepts. But there was no other information,
would you please send me information about this tool/product/"thing".

Plese respond to my E-mail address:

	yas@swin.oz.au

Thank you...

Ahmet Sekercioglu ( yas@swin.oz.au )         fax: +61-3-7287183
Laboratory for Concurrent Computing Systems
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne - Australia
From: joes@adpgate.UUCP (Joe Biehner)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Need help finding company info
Date: 16 Dec 92 17:37:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: tongo.1802
Organization: ADP Dealer Services R&D, Portland, OR

Hello.

I need some help finding information on two companies that I've recently
read references to.  I've provided the company name, location, and product/
description.  I tried to get the company phone numbers through Directory
Assistance, but in both cases there was no number listed.  (It's possible that
I've misspelled the company name or gotten their locations wrong.)

The companies are:

1) AI Squared of Chelmsford Massachusetts
   provide a 'model based reasoning tool'

2) Bolesian, Inc. of Cambridge, Massachusetts
   product is KADS, a Structured Knowledge Engineering tool


Any information would be greatly appreciated, especially phone numbers.  
Thanks in advance.


Joseph P. Tokarski
UNIX Network/System Implementation Specialist (and Software Engineer)
ADP Dealer Services
1950 Hassell Road
Hoffman Estates, IL  60195
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.edu
From: mickey@saathi.ncst.ernet.in (R Chandrasekar)
Subject: Need to locate the email address for Raymond Kurzweil.
Followup-To: mickey@saathi.ncst.ernet.in
Summary: If you have Ray Kurzweil's address, could you please send it?
Keywords: Raymond Kurzweil address
Organization: National Centre for Software Technology, Bombay, India.
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 12:55:27 GMT

Hi.

I am trying to locate Raymond Kurzweil, who wrote/edited 
the MIT Press book "The Age of Intelligent Machines", and
wrote and narrated the companion videotape of the same title.
[Both of which I enjoyed, BTW, and highly recommend to all.]

I tried Raymond.Kurzweil@kurzweil.com, but it doesnt work. I
did not have enough information for NetFind.

I need to get in touch with him, so if someone knows his
email address (most preferred mode for me!), or his address/fax
number, I would appreciate getting it. My email address is:

  mickey@saathi.ncst.ernet.in

Thanks very much,
Regards,

  -- Chandrasekar
______________________________________________________________________
R Chandrasekar                           Email: mickey@ncst.ernet.in
National Centre for Software Technology  Fax  : +91 (22) 621 0139
Gulmohar Cross Road No. 9                Phone: +91 (22) 620 1606
Juhu, Bombay 400 049, INDIA              Telex: +81 (11) 78260 NCST IN
______________________________________________________________________
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From: hugues@dorilys.gna.org (Hugues Lafarge)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.groupware
Subject: looking for information on "prescient agents"
Date: 16 Dec 92 18:13:05 GMT
Organization: GNU's Not Usenet

Some days ago, posted a request for information about
the "prescient agents" concept: papers, projects using
that concept, contacts, ...

I didn't get any response, expect from people telling
me that they were interested too..

So i'm re-asking.

Aynone heard of the M.I.T's LENS project, for example?

Please reply via e-mail, i'll summarize to the net.

Thanks in advance.
From: ssrzakar@csres.cs.reading.ac.uk (M. S. Zakaria)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Definition of search...
Date: 17 Dec 92 16:32:43 GMT
Organization: University of Reading


'Now,' said Rabbit, 'this is a Search, and I've Organised it -'
'Done what to it?' said Pooh.
'Organised it. Which means - well, it's what you do to a Search, 
when you don't all look in the same place at once.'

                                                 A. A. Milne (1928)
                                           The House at Pooh Corner
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: rwab1@cl.cam.ac.uk (Ralph Becket)
Subject: Re: Info about Eurisko
Reply-To: Ralph.Becket@cl.cam.ac.uk
Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:03:31 GMT

I'm interested in learning about Eurisko too - I'd be much obliged
if any of you could cc any info about the project to me as well.

Cheers,
	Ralph.
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: ginsberg@t.Stanford.EDU (Matthew L. Ginsberg)
Subject: discussion with Penrose
Originator: ginsberg@t.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:00:50 GMT


I had dinner with Penrose last night, and we talked about his book
among other things.  We agreed on the following:

1.  Penrose believes that his belief in mathematical sentences is
special; there is something qualitatively different about his belief
that e**(i pi) = -1, for example, than his belief that he has a stomach
ache.

2.  Penrose believes that strong AI (the claim that a Turing machine
can pass the Turing test, for example) is false.

3.  Penrose believes that (1) implies (2), and that the proof is
basically as outlined in his book.

I think Penrose is right about (3), but wrong about (1) (and therefore
unjustified in concluding (2)).

It was a very interesting -- and short -- discussion.  We realized
almost immediately that we differed in our beliefs regarding
mathematical sentences, that given those beliefs the rest of our views
were completely consistent, and that neither of us had any hope of
changing the other's views on (1).  Penrose did try to get me by
asking how I felt about "2 is not equal to 3", but I said that was the
thin edge of the wedge and I wasn't falling for it.

						Matt Ginsberg

Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.shells
From: bhh@frigga.cs.wayne.edu (Bhaskar Holur)
Subject: Need source for MPEG coder
Organization: Wayne State University
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 00:09:22 GMT


 I know that there are MPEG viewer/decoders out there available thru
 FTP. But those sites dont have the MPEG encoder.  IS there any
 ftp site where I can get the encoder source code?

 Thank you.

 --Bascar

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From: franke@andrej.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Christian Franke)
Newsgroups: comp.compression,comp.compression.research
Subject: Re: single chip solution for hardware compression?
Date: 15 Dec 92 15:03:48 GMT
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik - RWTH Aachen
NNTP-Posting-Host: andrej.informatik.rwth-aachen.de

scollins@lookout.it.uswc.uswest.com (Steven Collins) writes:

>Anybody aware of a single chip solution for
>lossless hardware compression?

All I know are the AHA3101 and AHA3210 chips.
Both chips use the DCLZ (Data Compression LZ) algorithm.
A floppy with DCLZ software in C is available from the manufacturer.
The AHA3101 needs external SRAM and compresses 2.5 Mbyte/s
The AHA3210 has its own RAM and compresses 10 Mbyte/s
Both chips are only available as 100pin Plastic Quad Flat Pak
The AHA3210 costs in Germany about DM 200,-- (~ 130 US$) in 
quantities >= 10.

Address of manufacturer:

	Advanced Hardware Architectures
	P.O. Box 9669
	Moscow, Idaho 83843, U.S.A.
	Phone: 208.883.8000
	Fax: .8001
	BBS: .8002

Hope this helps. Sorry, but I have no experience with these chips.

We are currently looking for a chip which is smaller (and cheaper)
than the AHA3210. We only need a compression rate of about
0.5 Mbyte/s. 

Could someone give us any reference?

	Christian Franke

	Aachen University of Technology
	Informatik I
	Ahornstrasse 55
	W-5100 Aachen
	Germany
	Tel.: +49.241.80-21111
	E-Mail: franke@informatik.rwth-aachen.de

Newsgroups: comp.compression
From: mcs66@cas.org (Peg Steensland)
Subject: Help - Parsons Technolgy Iowa program named MAGIC
Reply-To: mcs66@cas.org
Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:27:20 GMT

A number of years ago I bought this program to compress data and/or programs a directory at a time.  This was before I knew about PKware.  Anyhow, I used this thing a lot because it was so easy.  I used it to compress data on my D-F drives (DOS 3.3) just before I took the last backup on them and then lost my C drive.  How I will explain to 
anyone who wants to know about the frustration one can run into hooking up a CD-ROM
unit.

For some reason, I cannot lay my hands on the original disk from Parsons either.   I called them last week and they claim to have discontinued the product.

Does anyone out there have a copy they could lend me or does anyone know if it is a clone of some other available software.  Yes, if I get nowhere, I should probably 
post a complaint somewhere about Parsons failure to keep even archival copies of software they have sold! 

This of course is for my computer at home.  If anyone can help, I will of course 
reimburse shipping and/or send you some new blank disks for your effort.  Thanks.

Peg

mcs66@cas.org 

Newsgroups: comp.compression
From: umws@pool.sunyit.edu (Michael Seeley)
Subject: DPCM (Operation)
Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 13:44:53 GMT



	I am looking for some specific information on how a 
	DPCM predictor and a feed forward predictive coder worked.

	I tried to locate books in the library that were mentioned
	in the FAQ, but no luck.. It seem that MPEG information. is hard to
	come by.

	Any information would be gladly appreciated...

				
			umws@sunyite.edu
-- 
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