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From: dg1v+@andrew.cmu.edu (David Greene)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Verification of Knowledge Bases
Date: 1 Sep 92 06:52:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.4ecsCWW00VBKI1qGNi
Organization: Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Excerpts: 1-Sep-92 Verification of Knowledge B.. Harald Stadlbauer@efads1 (508)
> Can somebody give me pointers to literature and systems or summaries of
> techniques for verification of knowledge bases?


@Article(Benba89, Key="Benbasat",
          Author="Benbasat, I. & Dhaliwal, J.",
          Title="A Framework for the Validation of Knowledge Acquisition",
          Journal="Knowledge Acquisition",
          volume="1",  Number="1", Year="1989", Pages="215-233")

@Article(OKee87, Key="O'Keefe",
          Author="O'Keefe, R., Balci, O. &  Smith. E",
          Title="Validating Expert System Performance",
          Journal="IEEE Expert",
          Number="2", Year="1987")

@Article(OLea87, Key="O'Leary",
          Author="O'Leary, D",
          Title="Validation of Expert Systems -- with Applications to
Auditing and Accounting Expert Systems",
          Journal="Decision Sciences",
          Number="18", Year="1987")
From: patten@violet.cis.ohio-state.edu (Terry Patten)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: NLP CFP
Date: 1 Sep 92 19:22:05 GMT
Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science


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

			    CALL FOR PAPERS
			      IEEE Expert
             Special Track on Processing Natural Language

IEEE Expert announces a Special Track on Processing Natural Language,
edited by Terry Patten and Paul Jacobs.  A Special Track is a
collection of papers, united by a theme, running over several issues.

For the Special Track on Processing Natural Language, papers are sought
on the practical application of all areas of natural-language
processing, including the following:  computational morphology,
parsing, semantic interpretation, pragmatic/contextual interpretation,
discourse processing, text planning and realization/generation, and
machine translation. An ideal paper would describe a technique or
approach to natural language processing, along with an evaluation of
how it works and how well it works in a particular application.  Papers
that give a critical evaluation are preferred over descriptions of
programs or applications.

IEEE Expert is a magazine of applied AI, not a transactions or a
journal.  The magazine is a bridge between the research community and
the user community.  It aims to publish original papers that transfer
to the user community ideas and tools that come out of research and
development.  Clear, not overly formal, writing is essential.  Its
readers are users, developers, managers, researchers, and purchasers
who are interested in databases, expert systems, and artificial
intelligence, with particular emphasis on applications.  They want to
learn about the tools, techniques, concepts, aids, and systems that
have potential for real-world applications.  Conceptual or theoretical
papers are welcome, provided they clearly demonstrate their relevance
to real-world applications--preferably through prototype
implementations.

Submissions should be written according the IEEE Expert style.  The
final articles should be about 8-9 printed pages, with about 10-12
references.  All papers submitted will be carefully reviewed.  Papers
accepted on technical grounds are subject to copyediting by the
Managing Editor's staff for clarity and expressiveness.  Authors are
asked to submit six copies (hard-copy only) of their paper by October
1, 1992 to:

Terry Patten, Computer and Information Science, Ohio State University,
2036 Neil Ave. Mall, Columbus, OH 43210, U.S.A.

e-mail: patten@cis.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: timm@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Tim Menzies)
Subject: Re: AI Winter Refugees
Reply-To: timm@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Tim Menzies)
Organization: none
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 08:52:13 GMT

With regards to the phrase "AI-Winter". Recently I attended the first
Practical Prolog conference in London. There, literally dozens of
fielded Prolog applications were reported. Were they AI? Since I don't
know what AI means, I can't say. Would those applications have
benefited/ did benefit from being developed by persons with exposure to
the AI literature? Definitely, yes.

Maybe there is no "AI Winter". Perhaps, instead, there is a rude
awakenning and a return to reality for a collection of people who got
off on the wrong track and did not realise it till the banks declared
them bankrupt.  That is, I endorse the sentiments of the Jacob L.
Cybulski posting.  The so-called AI winter is a result of a
mis-direction by the academic AI community. Please, let us leave our
ivory towers and go out and get out hands dirty with the real problems
faced by real users out there in the real software world. I recommend
such activity.  Everytime I have faced a real-live problem, my
understanding of the theory has matured.

Oh, and small note on marketting. If you want to make money, do not
call what you do "AI". Read the AI literature, certainly, but call
yourself "Advanced Technologies" or "Interactive Software Engineering"
or "The User-Modelling Prototyping Group" or some such but not AI. The
term has a bad smell.

--
  ^       Tim Menzies (a 1/3 doctor)              | "More than iron, more than
 /"\__/\  AI Lab, Computer Science, Uni. NSW      | lead, more than gold I
*       \ P.O. Box 1, Kensington, Australia, 2033 | need electricity. I need
 \  _  _/ +61-2-663-4576 (fax) +61-2-697-3940 (w) | it more than I need lamb
  \| ""   timm@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au             | or pork or lettuce or
                                                    cucumber. I need it for
                                                    my dreams." -- RACTOR
From: dmp@tigger.cs.bham.ac.uk (Donald Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: FINAL CALL : AISB'93
Date: 3 Sep 92 16:23:40 GMT
Organization: Birmingham University Computer Science


    ================================================================

                          AISB'93 CONFERENCE

                        FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 

    Theme: "Prospects for AI as the General Science of Intelligence"

                       29 March --  2 April 1993 

                        University of Birmingham

    ================================================================

The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the
Simulation of Behaviour will hold its ninth bi-annual conference on
the dates above at the University of Birmingham.

This is a reminder that the deadline for submitted papers and posters
is 15 September 1992 (though a few days leeway will be allowed). 

Papers are invited in any of the normal areas represented at AI and
Cognitive Science conferences, including:

AI in Design,
AI in software engineering
Teaching AI and Cognitive Science,
Analogical and other forms of Reasoning
Applications of AI,
Automated discovery,
Control of actions,
Creativity,
Distributed intelligence,
Expert Systems,
Intelligent interfaces
Intelligent tutoring systems,
Knowledge representation,
Learning,
Methodology,
Modelling affective processes,
Music,
Natural language,
Naive physics,
Philosophical foundations,
Planning,
Problem Solving,
Robotics,
Tools for AI,
Vision,

The conference proceedings will be published. Long papers and invited
papers will definitely be included. Selected poster summaries may be
included if there is space.


                 PAPER LENGTH and SUBMISSION DETAILS

Full papers:
    10 pages maximum, A4 or 8.5"x11", no smaller than 12 point print
    size Times Roman or similar preferred, in letter quality print.

Poster submissions
    5 pages summary

Excessively long papers will be rejected without being reviewed.

All submissions should include

    1. Full names and addresses of all authors
    2. Electronic mail address if available
    3. Topic area
    4. Label: "Long paper" or "Poster summary"
    5. Abstract no longer than 10 lines.
    6. Statement certifying that the paper is not being
       submitted elsewhere for publication.
    7. An undertaking that if the paper is accepted at least
       one of the authors will attend the conference.

THREE copies are required.


                  EMAIL, PAPER MAIL, PHONE and FAX. 

Email:
    * aisb93-prog@cs.bham.ac.uk 
      (for communications relating to submission of papers to the programme)
    * aisb93-delegates@cs.bham.ac.uk 
      (for information on accommodation, meals, programme etc. as it 
       becomes available --- enquirers will be placed on a mailing list)

Address:
    AISB'93 (prog) or AISB'93 (delegates), 
    School of Computer Science,
    The University of Birmingham,
    Edgbaston,
    Birmingham,
    B15 2TT, 
    U.K. 

Phone:
    +44-(0)21-414-3711

Fax:
    +44-(0)21-414-4281

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Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: roy@dutetvd.tudelft.nl (Roy Natadarma)
Subject: KnowledgePro meeting
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Distribution: eunet
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 13:35:48 GMT

        Datum: 3 september 1992
          Van: SABINEK
    Onderwerp: kpro

KnowledgePro User Group Europe (KPUGE) Meeting

Are you an user of KnowledgePro? Then, there is a great
opportunity to meet other european users and also the developpers
of KnowledgePro from Knowledge Garden, USA. 
Last year at the first usergroup meeting in Norway KPUGE has been
established. KPUGE is a dynamic network with the following aims:
- to exchange knowledge and expertise;
- to maintain a cooperative and independent relationship to    
  other user groups and Knowledge Garden Inc.;
- to increase membership of the user group.
Since the meeting of last year has been very interesting and
useful we would like to continue this way of communicating with
each other. 
So,  the next user group meeting will be from the 5th to the 8th
of October 1992 in Fiesole (close to Florence), Italy.

For more information:
                                             phone:
Guido Calcagno                  Italy        +39-125-612795
Endre Sjovold                     Norway     +47-7-831597
Turbologic Inf.               The Netherlands +31-4956-2686
Sabine Kunst             The Netherlands     +31-15-783037
From: fawcett@unix1.cs.umass.edu (Tom Fawcett)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: AI Winter Refugees
Date: 25 Aug 92 19:44:05 GMT
Reply-To: fawcett@unix1.cs.umass.edu (Tom Fawcett)
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

ginsberg@t.Stanford.EDU (Matthew L. Ginsberg) writes:

>Finally, let me quibble a bit with your use of the term "refugees",
>which brings to mind innocent victims of a disaster not of their
>making.  My perception is that the people being justifiably pruned
>from AI overlap substantially with those responsible for the hype that
>surrounded the field in less responsible days.

His original message mentioned under-employment among AI professionals.  It
sounds like anyone graduating with a PhD in AI within the last few years would
qualify as a "victim" of this.  I doubt they are the ones responsible for the
AI hype of the 70's.

-Tom
Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.lang.lisp,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Date: Wed,  2 Sep 1992 21:42:38 -0400 
From: "Demian A. Johnston" <dj1l+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: PD Common Lisp for Amiga, PC?


I also would be interested in information on PD Common Lisp ( as well as
Commerical Interpreters) conforming to CLtl 2.
I plan on running the software on my '386 running DOS5.

Thank you in advance



                                                  Demian 
                                              --->  daj+@cmu.edu
                                              --->  dj1l@andrew.cmu.edu
                                              --->  demianjn@ids.jvnc.net

Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: shadlock@well.sf.ca.us (Shad Tomlinson)
Subject: Re: AI Winter Refugees
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 04:12:21 GMT

                  **********************************
                    Z-Mail, Z-Fax - Z-Code Software
                  **********************************

Z-Code Software Corporation in San Rafael, CA is seeking strong,
experienced -senior- software engineers in the following categories:

    Z-Fax:  UNIX, X must.  Knowledge of fax modems a plus.

    Z-Mail:  Microsoft Windows.  Just a great GUI programmer.

The best candidate would be the type of person that has done a lot
of personal programming -- a wiz at Windows or X programming. Someone
that has such a desire to program and build apps, that you spend a
lot of personal time building cool utilities and things.  A dedicated
hacker.

Please don't phone initial correspondence unless you were told
about this and literally have no email access.  (415) 499-8649

I'd rather see code samples than a resume (at first).  Send an ftp
site if code is too large for email. If you must send a resume,
please send text only -- no formatting code like troff.  Also, when
you send mail, let us know what you're doing now, what you've done
recently with X and/or Windows, and what other sorts of things you
think might be pertinent.

About Z-Mail:

Z-Mail is the most portable electronic mail package on the market
today ported to virtually all UNIX platforms and DOS.  (We need
someone to take this port over to Windows.) UNIX World magazine
awarded Z-Mail Product of the Year in 1991.  Z-Mail supports Motif,
Open Look and character based (tty) interfaces.

About Z-Code Software:

Z-Code is located in Marin County, about a 15 minutes north of the
Golden Gate Bridge.  There are now 12 people in the company, soon to
be at least 15 by the end of the year.  Stock options available, etc..
Very casual environment.

Mail all correspondence to personnel@z-code.com

Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: danny@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Danny Faught)
Subject: Re: AI Winter Refugees
Organization: University of North Texas, Denton
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:25:25 GMT

The ACM's guide to computing careers (can't remember the exact name) has
a (small) section on careers in AI.  It says, basically, not to do it,
that there isn't much of a market for AI professionals.  It suggests
that people interested in AI should apply AI techniques in one of the
more common computer career areas.

Maybe the AI people are the hardest hit in the alleged decline in the
total population of scientists.  Hal Hellman, in his 1976 book, 
_Technophobia_, argues that the number of scientists is declining,
and the number of genuinely new fields of science are being exhausted.
"I once asked an editor of _Scientific American_ why their articles were 
often so difficult to read.  His answer, only half in jest, was that all 
the simple subjects had been used up.  I wonder if that doesn't reflect
the actual situation in scientific and technological research." (p. 12)
-- 
Danny Faught    danny@ponder.csci.unt.edu
Save this sig - I'll be famous someday
From: feldy@isi.edu (Bob Felderman)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Looking for data sets for character recognition
Date: 28 Aug 92 05:34:06 GMT
Reply-To: feldy@ISI.EDU chris@cs.ucla.edu
Distribution: usa
Organization: Information Sciences Institute
Keywords: character recognition

I seem to remember hearing about a data set of handwritten characters.
Is there such a thing available?
How about a set of spoken words?
Thanks,
Bob Felderman
USC/Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695
(310) 822-1511 x222
(310) 823-6714 (fax)

feldy@isi.edu

Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: fawcett@unix1.cs.umass.edu (Tom Fawcett)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: AI Winter Refugees
Date: 25 Aug 92 17:31:28 GMT
Reply-To: fawcett@unix1.cs.umass.edu (Tom Fawcett)
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

In article <1992Aug25.141303.175830@ua1ix.ua.edu> rsun@athos.cs.ua.edu (Ron Sun) writes:

>AI should be viewed as  science, rather than engineering.
>This way, there will be a lot more solid basic work, a lot less
>disappointment.

I would hope there's room for both science and engineering.  Otherwise the job
prospects for people in AI will be pretty much like those for theoretical
physicists.  (well, we may be at that point now anyway).

Funding aspects aside, science and engineering feed one another.  Some
fundamental problems are uncovered and delineated when researchers try to
apply existing techniques to real-world problems.

>The disapointment results from the inflated hopes that AI can 
>create magic with no need for a fundamental understanding of intelligence.  

The problem is with the "inflated hopes that AI can create magic" -- with or
without a fundamental understanding of intelligence.

-Tom
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: frank@Cookie.secapl.com (Frank Adams)
Subject: Re: AI Winter Refugees
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 22:23:23 GMT
Organization: Security APL, Inc.

In article <81625@bcsaic.boeing.com> rwojcik@atc.boeing.com writes:
>What you
>really have to understand is that AI solutions don't work if you think of
>the problems as only technical.  When you set out to change a work process,
>you are heading straight into a briar patch of politics.  You can run away
>from it, or you can look for people who can help you sell the vision.

There is nothing special about AI here.  *All* software projects run into
this.

>Every
>corporate environment has its liberals and conservatives when it comes to
>change.  There are tremendous opportunities in every business environment
>that needs to manage information (i.e. *all* of them).  If you want to 
>succeed, you must search out leverage for change.  You had better do your
>homework in understanding how that change will affect work processes and
>listen to those who voice the most opposition.  They may even have a point.

They almost certainly have a point.  There are bound to be problems you
haven't thought of.  The best solution is almost always a compromise.
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From: mds@iastate.edu (Mark D. Smucker)
Subject: Info Request: MIT AI memos
Organization: Iowa State University of Censorship and Repression
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 20:42:45 GMT


Hello, the more research that I do concerning AI, the more references
that I have referring me back to MIT AI memos.

1) What is the proper procedure for getting copies of these memos? 
	( Note: My library only has years 1958-1979. )

2) Does MIT make these available via anonymous ftp?  Is there a way to
request them via email?

Thanks,

Mark D. Smucker   ----   mds@iastate.edu



Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: music@erich.triumf.ca (FRED W. BACH)
Subject: Does anyone have email addresses for NAIF ?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords:  NAIF, Northwest, Seattle
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
Distribution: NA
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:03:00 GMT

 Dear AI people,

   I keep getting these wonderful invitations to seminars by NAIF, the
Northwest Artificial Intelligence Forum in the Seattle, Washington area.
I attended one once, and it was very good.  But they list NO email
addresses in their flyer.  Only phone numbers and postal addresses.  Now
that is something one would NOT expect!

   So I would rather get all this by email and I don't want to phone them.
Does anyone have any NAIF current email addresses ?


   Thanks.

 Fred W. Bach ,    Operations Group        |  Internet: music@erich.triumf.ca
 TRIUMF (TRI-University Meson Facility)    |  Voice:  604-222-1047 loc 278/419
 4004 WESBROOK MALL, UBC CAMPUS            |  FAX:    604-222-1074
 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., CANADA   V6T 2A3

 These are my opinions, which should ONLY make you read, think, and question.
 They do NOT necessarily reflect the views of my employer or fellow workers.
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: vere@netcom.com (Steven Vere)
Subject: Re: AI Winter Refugees
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 06:28:28 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Summary: Documentation?

In article <1992Aug25.163704.3638@erg.sri.com>, roberto@erg.sri.com (Roberto Desimone) writes:

> slightly larger  number of jobs. Whereas in the past (only a few years ago) 
> companies had to advertize to find good people to fill their staff positions, 
> now they are getting plenty of good resumes and don't feel they have to 
> advertize so much. Likewise for recruiting at AAAI.
> 

I see.  A lot of companies are still hiring AI types, but now they just don't
have to advertise anymore.  To document your assertion for the benefit of 
graduating students and other uninformed refugees, please post a list of 
organizations (with contact phone numbers) actively seeking to hire AI
engineers and researchers.  Alternatively, admit you are verbalizing 
nonsense.

> [. . .]
> Roberto Desimone      roberto@erg.sri.com          Tel: (415) 859-4038
> SRI International (EK335), 333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025


-- 
___________________________________________________________________________

  Steven Vere                                    70571.521@compuserve.com  
  Boulder Creek, California                               vere@netcom.com    
___________________________________________________________________________
From: laws@ai.sri.com (Kenneth I. Laws)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: AI Winter Refugees
Date: 4 Sep 92 19:08:20 GMT
	<1992Aug28.103804.9632@aisb.ed.ac.uk> <25450@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: Computists International
In-reply-to: cam@castle.ed.ac.uk's message of 2 Sep 92 15:07:11 GMT

> From Chris Malcolm:
> I can't think of a reason
> why the AI funding agencies should be sloppier. The funding agencies
> operate general policies, and their staff move around.

This doesn't seem to be the way that it works in the U.S.
NSF program directors do not move around, except for a
few bureaucrats who keep paperwork moving in vacant positions.
Directors move in and out, not around.  :-)

The amount of "slop" in the system depends on the disparity
between funds available and funds required to support the
best research.  Funding agencies that get their money from
Congress typically request as much budget as they think
they can get, regardless of the need in each category.
Congress then tweaks the amounts based on perceived payoff,
media interest, photo-op potential, competing programs,
politics, etc. -- again without much relationship to the
number of really good proposals available.

In biology, it's not uncommon for a proposal to be rejected
because it fails to state what hypothesis is to be investigated,
what methods will be used, or how the results will support or
disprove the hypothesis.  In AI it's unusual to see any of those
addressed.

					-- Ken
--

Dr. Kenneth I. Laws, (415) 493-7390, laws@ai.sri.com.
Moderator of the Computists International AI/IS/CS mutual-aid association.
Ask about my weekly online career newsletter, The Computists' Communique.
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: rsun@athos.cs.ua.edu (Ron Sun)
Subject: Re: AI Winter
Organization: University of Alabama Department of Computer Science
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 17:57:55 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.200143.8844@erg.sri.com> marie@paris.erg.sri.com (Marie desJardins) writes:
>
>Since when is machine learning not AI?  I find it hard to believe that's
>what you're saying; perhaps you could clarify.  (Possibly your point is that

If you read the original posting, you can see that what I was referring to
is data mining, statistical modeling, etc., and especially
when used to "mine" corporate data.
How are these things related to cognition and intelligence?
If that is AI, then so are oparation research, management science,
pattern recognition, speech processing, image processing,.......
Again, AI should not be whatever "AI people" are doing.
AI should have its own consistent goal and program.

--Ron


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