HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dsimon@atlas.nafb.trw.com
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Noisy backprop- references needed
Date: 6 Oct 92 22:02:18 GMT
Distribution: usa

> Many people (me included sometimes), add white noise to the input training
> patterns when using backprop. While I believe this to be a good
> idea, and remember this very subject being discussed on 
> comp.ai.neural-nets, I would really like a reference or two
> justifying this procedure.

L. Holmstrom and P. Koistinen, "Using Additive Noise in Back-Propagation
Training," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 3, pp. 24ff, Jan 1992.
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Date: Mon,  5 Oct 92 09:01:44 MDT
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.ai
Subject: Re: Multi-Module Neural Networks Environment
Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
From: rhelps@bones.et.byu.edu (Richard Helps)

>MUME is made available to research institutions on media/doc/postage cost
>arrangements. Information on how to acquire it may be obtained by writing
>(or email) to:

Can you please make this available via anonymous ftp?

I would like to investigate this package for research/teaching.

Thanks.  Richard Helps. BYU Provo UTAH. USA
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
From: ggeorge@bilbo.encore.com (Greg George)
Subject: Economic Data Sites?
Organization: Encore Computer Corp.
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 11:59:19 GMT

Could someone please post or e-mail me sites that have
economic info for NN's? In particular, I would like info
on the US, Japanese, and the German stock market.

Thanks!

greg

Greg George
Principal Systems Software Analyst
Project Leader Multimax UMAX-V Development
Encore Computer Corporation
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
From: mcke@unixg.ubc.ca (William McKellin )
Subject: Re: NeuralWorks wanted
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 14:51:21 GMT

NeuralWare Inc.
Penn Center West
Building IV
Pittsburg, PA
15276

phone 412-787-8222
fax 412-787-8220
From: Pervez.Hoshang.Mohta@mailbox.bison.mb.ca (Pervez Hoshang Mohta)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Request for ANN & GA assignments in C++
Date: 24 Sep 92 23:05:55 CST

Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Reply-To: pmohta@ics.uci.edu (Pervez Hoshang Mohta)


 You may try using David Goldberg's book "Genetic Algorithms for
 Search and Optimization", for some preliminary programming assignments
 in Genetic Algorithms. The book includes some good simple Pascal code
 for implementing basic modules of a canonical GA, and also contains
 some excercise problems at the end of chapters, requiring coding.

 -- pervez mohta.

 * Origin: The Electronic Mailbox (1:348/7.0)

Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.ai,sci.engr.control
From: erik@maui.til.com (Erik Horstkotte)
Subject: Re: Fuzzy logic references wanted
Keywords: fuzzy logic references
Organization: Togai InfraLogic, Inc.
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 17:05:29 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.155123.13909@tamsun.tamu.edu>,
emily@azariah.tamu.edu (Emily Glass) writes:

|> I disagree.  Why must the traffic be "heavy" to justify a news
|> group? 
|> I don't have time to read 100's of news messages every day. (I only
|> |> *want* to spend about 30 min/day reading news groups (1 hour
|> max). ) 
|> The only part of the comp.ai group that I am really interested in
|> at 
|> this time is the fuzzy topic; so it takes up my time to sort
|> through 
|> the other stuff in this news group in hopes of finding a few fuzzy
|> |> articles.  On my computer system, if I subscribe to a news
|> group, *it 
|> tells me* when there are new messages.  Who cares if there are only
|> |> 2-5 per day! (I wouldn't even care if there were none on some
|> days.) 
|> Also, there are some successful news groups that have very low
|> flow,
|> such as comp.lang.eiffel. 

Like you, I'd like to see a comp.fuzzy (or something similar)
newsgroup, even with the low message flow.  The problem is that I've
seen several newsgroups shot down at the CFV (call for votes) stage
just because they didn't generate enough traffic to justify splitting
that traffic out into a new group.  I think it's worthwhile to at
least take things to the RFD (request for discussion) stage to see
what other people think.  I certainly would vote yes to a proposal
for comp.fuzzy.  I'll suggest to Yoke (Yokichi Tanaka) that we go
ahead and put together a proposed charter, FAQ, and issue the RFD.

Anyone have any suggestions for the proposed charter or the FAQ?
-- 
Erik Horstkotte, Togai InfraLogic, Inc.
erik@til.til.com, uunet!til!erik - (714) 975-8522
Standard disclaimer: the preceding are my opinions, not TIL's.
Xref: sparky comp.ai.neural-nets:3647 news.answers:3140
From: jamesk@uxmail.ust.hk (Kwok Tin Yau)
Subject: Bayesian classifiers fail to separate ??
Organization: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 01:26:35 GMT

Hi netters,

  It is known that neural nets trained using the MSE error
criterion can approximate the bayesian classifier in the 
minimum mean-square sense. But it is also shown in "Gradient
descent fails to separate" that such a minimum error solution
does not necessarily separate a set of linearly separable
vectors. However, bayesian classifiers are optimal in the
number of correct classification, so, how to resolve this
apparent contradiction ??

  Thanks in advance.


James
-- 
James Kwok                       |   The Hong Kong University of     |
Internet: jamesk@uxmail.ust.hk   |     Science and Technology        |
                                 |  Department of Computer Science   |
Newsgroups: comp.ai.nlang-know-rep
From: dnk@yarra-glen.aaii.oz.au (David Kinny)
Subject: Re: Need references on 'procedural information'
Organization: Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 23:29:52 GMT

rajeev@Ra.MsState.Edu (Rajeev Agarwal) writes:

>I need some help in finding references on the representation of 'procedural 
>information'.  I am working on the Merck Veterinary Manual and we have several 
>instances where they describe the procedure to be used to treat the animal.  
>[...]

>I am trying to look for some references on such stuff that say how other 
>people may have tried to do similar things.  Please let me know if you are 
>aware of any.  

I tried to mail, but it bounced.  This may be a useful starting point:

@inproceedings{Georgeff-Lansky86,
author={Michael P. Georgeff and Amy L. Lansky},
title={Procedural Knowledge},
booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE Special Issue on Knowledge Representation},
volume=74,
pages={1383--1398},
year=1986
}

@inproceedings{Georgeff-Lansky87,
author={Michael P. Georgeff and Amy L. Lansky},
title={Reactive Reasoning and Planning},
booktitle=AAAI87,
address=AAAI87-address,
pages={677--682},
year=1987
}

>Rajeev Agarwal
>Mississippi State University

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Phone: +61 3 663 7922  Fax: 663 7937    CARLTON, VICTORIA 3053, AUSTRALIA
From: cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Human intelligence vs. Machine intelligence
Date: 7 Oct 92 02:09:46 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <burt.718398109@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> burt@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Burt Voorhees) writes:

[I have omitted other attributiuons since this poster messed them up.
In fact, I am the author of the >>> remarks.]

>>>Penrose, although a famous physicist, can't be counted as an expert in
><>this field.

>  Like the 300 lb gorilla, Penrose can be counted an expert in whatever
>field he chooses to put his mind to.

Well, this may the case, for you, if Penrose happens to know more about
everything than you do :-)

>  Actually, Penrose gives much better arguments against machine intelligence
>than this.  The Godel argument, for example...  

The silliness of the Godel argument has been pointed out many times on
this group. If you care to post a statement of it, cross-posting to
sci.phil.tech, I'm sure hundreds of posters will oblige you with
refutations :-) For a start it only applies to consistent systems, and
consistency is neither necessary, desirable, nor probably even
achievable in a system capable of behaving intelligently in a world
described by sensed categories it has had to learn.

Any more good arguments of Penrose you'ld like to cite?

>>>An indication of the status of Penrose's critique of artificial
>>>intelligence is that -- apart from reviews at the time of publication
>>>-- nobody in the field is bothering to refute it ....

>  More likely, nobody in the AI community can refute them.

Clearly you haven't read any of the reviews of Penrose by AI people.
At least one was posted here.

>  What seems to be the case in this debate is that people on either side
>are really arguing from hidden metaphysical assumptions ...

These days the assumptions aren't so hidden. If authors fail to make
their metaphysical assumptions explicit it doesn't usually take long
before someone remedies the omission.

>In terms of a research paper this gives one the opportunity
>to investigate such things as the nature of consciousness ...

You'ld better hurry up, since almost every philosopher with
pretensions to expertise in the area has either just published a book
dealing with consciousness, or is writing one.
-- 
Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.aifh          +44 (0)31 650 3085
Department of Artificial Intelligence,    Edinburgh University
5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK                DoD #205
From: asa@vall.dsv.su.se (]sa Rudstr|m)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: First call for papers: SCAI-93
Date: 2 Oct 92 13:09:21 GMT
Organization: University of Stockholm, Sweden


First Call for Papers - SCAI-93

Fourth Scandinavian Conference on AI 
Stockholm, Sweden, May 4-7 1993


THE CONFERENCE

The biennial Scandinavian Conference on AI is the Scandinavian forum for
scientific exchange and presentation of AI research. The aim of the
conference is to cover all aspects of AI research, including non-symbolic
methods, and to bring together basic research and applied research. The
technical programme will include paper and poster presentations, invited
talks, panels and tutorials. We particularily welcome contributions from 
the Baltic states.

The fourth SCAI is hosted by the Swedish AI Society and will take place in
the science park Electrum situated in the northern suburbs of Stockholm.


DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: December 15, 1992.


Papers must be received by the SCAI-93 secretariat before December 15,
1992. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by February 1,
1993. Final camera-ready papers must be received by March 20, 1993.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are requested to submit to the SCAI-93 secretariat, 5 copies of
papers written in English in hardcopy format (electronic and fax
submissions will not be accepted). Submitted papers should be unpublihed,
original work. Papers should be between 2500 and 5500 words, printed on A4
or 8.5 x11 sized paper, double-spaced, in letter quality print and with
12 point type.

Each copy of the paper should include a separate title page, containing the
title, full names, postal adresses, phone numbers and email adresses of all
authors, an abstract of 100-200 words and an indication whether a paper or 
poster presentation is preferred.

PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS

Erik Sandewall				Carl Gustaf Jansson
Linkoping University			KTH and Stockholm University

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

Tuesday, May 4:				Wednesday-Thursday, May 5-7:

Tutorials (in parallell with the	Invited talks, panels, paper 
Swedish AI Society's annual meeting)	and poster presentations

SCAI-93 SECRETARIAT

All correspondence should be directed to

SCAI 93
Department of Computer and		Phone:+46-8-161606
Systems Sciences			Fax: +46-8-7039025
Stockholm University/KTH		scai93@dsv.su.se
Aasa Rudstrom					 	      
Electrum 230
S-16440 Kista, Sweden
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.neural-nets
From: breese@monet.imada.ou.dk (Bjoern Reese)
Subject: What hardware did Sejnowski originally use for NETalk?
Organization: Dept. of Math. & Computer Science, Odense University, Denmark
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 11:16:35 GMT

Could someone please tell me what kind of hardware Terry Sejnowski
at John Hopkins University originally used for NETalk? References
are also most welcome.

Thanks in advance.

--

Bjoern Reese                   |     Email: breese@imada.ou.dk
Odense University, Denmark     |     Voice: +45 65 932 182 (private)
From: davidm@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (David Morgenstern)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Request for Information
Date: 5 Oct 92 21:51:47 GMT
Organization: California State University, Sacramento

Dear Comp.AI Persons:

I've been given the assignment to report on Higher Education kinda
news for MacWeek. This is a very wide-ranging area, but I'm
focusing on new projects from universities, technologies that are
starting to be used in the academic environment, and anything else
that looks interesting. It doesn't have to be all Macintosh,
although that helps! 

My first report covered the SUIT cross-platform C-language graphic
software, the Tripwire security software for UNIX, and the EndNote
TagLink (a commercial program) support for the TAGS bibliographic
file format developed by the UC Library. 

I'd like to hear about what you're working on, if there's something
you think that people should know about, a new technology, or a new
tool. If a colleague is doing something interesting, can you pass
this on to them?  Any other news that might be of interest to
MacWeek readers is always welcome!
 
Thanks,

David Morgenstern, davidm@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu 
-- 
 David Morgenstern, BMUG CheerLeader davidm@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu
    "Miracles do occur - but they rarely provide food." 
         --  Talmud: Shabbat, 53b
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.edu,comp.ai.neural-nets
From: gjohnson@ssdsun.asl.dl.nec.com (Gloria Johnson)
Subject: Re: Has making a group for Genetic Algorithms been discussed?
Organization: NEC America, Inc. Irving, Texas
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 13:00:16 GMT

In article <BvD31o.FwK@news.cso.uiuc.edu> nafpliot@ux2.cso.uiuc.edu (N.N.) writes:
>I don't want to go over old hash, but has the idea of a group for 
>Genetic Algorithms been discussed?  Something like comp.ai.ga?  If not, 
>can this be discussed?  I would like to know if interest in such a group
>is widespread, or if limited to only a few people.
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Nicholas Nafpliotis
>nick-n@uiuc.edu
>Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory
>University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

I would be interested in such a group.

Gloria Johnson                
gjohnson@ssd.dl.nec.com      
-- 
_______________________________________________________________________________ 
Gloria Johnson                      NEC America, Inc 
 gjohnson@ssd.dl.nec.com            1525 Walnut Hill Lane
                                    Irving, Texas  75038
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: barkerb@slab.unt.edu (BOB BARKER)
Subject: Hi & Lo AI
Organization: School of Library & Info Sci, UNT
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 17:20:27 GMT

I am new to this field and was presented with something last night and have 
not had the chance to go to the library to check it out.  I need some basic 
information on what is Hi(high?) and Lo(low?) AI?  When did AI split 
into the two areas?  What characterizes each area?  What is some of the 
current work being done in each area?  Are there any systems currently under 
development or at work in these areas?  No need to get real technical.  Just 
some good, general overview sort of information.

Thanks in advance.

Bob Barker
barkerb@slab.unt.edu
From: s897460@otto (Alicia Lee Hsia)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Info Needed on AIG Underwriting System
Date: 4 Oct 92 04:50:30 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: otto.bf.rmit.oz.au


Requires Informations on American Internation Group Underwriting System.
========================================================================

My topic is to discuss on the American International Group's (Insurace
Company) Expert Systems.  Their ES was developed by Syntelligence, Inc.
Their purpose is to mimic top risk managers in tasks such as size up 
risk and price them.  The prototype was done on a product called DIC, 
which dealt with an insurance policy that covers all type of risks,
including earthquakes and floods.

This ES uses Knowledge Acquisition to extract knowledge from top risk
managers.  And, uses certainty factor approach for assigning weights
to the recommendations.

Can anyone please provide me with more informations on the topic mentioned
above as soon as possible.  I need information on how the system actually
works and what is DIC.  What is the problem on this type of ES system, etc ?
Please tell me where to obtain more information.  Thank you very much !
Your help will no doubt be appreciated.  

==========================================================================
|  Alicia NG                                       |       RMIT          |
|  E-Mail  :  s897460@otto.bf.rmit.OZ.AU           | Business Information| 
|             s897460@rubicon.bf.rmit.OZ.AU        |      Systems        |
==========================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.philosophy
From: xin@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au (Xin Yao)
Subject: ftp site for TSPs
Keywords: TSP, combinatorial optimisation
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 05:42:26 GMT

Someone posted a ftp site (in Germany) for some well-known TSPs quite a while
ago, but I didn't save the message. Could somebody send me the infor again?
Thanks in advance!

Xin Yao
xin@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au

Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.philosophy,comp.cog-eng,sci.psychology
From: jmh@coyote.datalog.com (John Hughes)
Subject: Seeking grad school recommendations for AI research
Keywords:  AI graduate research cognitive
Organization: not if I can help it...
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 14:24:58 GMT

Greetings, once again.
 
A little over a week ago I posted a request in comp.ai
requesting recommendations for graduate programs in
theoretical AI research. I was (and still am) looking for
programs which do not cater to any specific paradigm, but
instead deal with the subject from an angle more akin to,
say, theoretical physics. A program which involves aspects of
cognitive philosophy, computational theory, and maybe some
cognitive psychology, along with access to computer systems
for theory verification and research would be really nice,
since I'm an "older student" finishing up my BA in cog.
philo. and have 10+ years experience as a systems programmer.
I also specified that the school of my dreams would be
located on the East coast. I'm willing to relax that
criteria, however, and just say anything East of the
Mississippi (I don't have anything against the West coast, my
wife and I just want a change of pace.).
 
So far I've received four responses. To those that have
replied so far, many thanks. I would, however, like to get a
few more responses before I post the summary I promised. So,
I'm cross-posting this to some additional newsgroups to see
what I can turn up.
 
The responses so far have come from:
 
     University of Pittsburgh            Pittsburgh, PA
     Georgia Institute of Technology     Atlanta, GA
     Iowa State University               Ames, IA
     University of Georgia               Athens, GA
 
Hopefully I can collect a few more responses to make for a
nice healthy summary. If you would like to have your program
included in the summary, please reply directly to me via e-
mail. In the interests of continued net.bandwidth.harmony,
please do a direct reply. I would like to have the summary
ready to roll out of the hanger in about a week or so.
 
Thank you in advance.
John M. Hughes


-- 
|     John M. Hughes      | "...unfolding in consciousness at the            |
| datalog.com!moondog!jmh | deliberate speed of pondering."  - Daniel Dennet |
| jmh%coyote@noao.edu     |--------------------------------------------------|
| jmh%moondog@datalog.com |   P.O.Box 43305      Tucson     AZ       85733   |
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: marcel@ADS.COM (Marcel Schoppers)
Subject: need a nonlinear planner in C or prolog
Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Mtn. View, CA (415)960-7300
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 23:01:56 GMT


Does anyone know of a public-domain, nonlinear planner written in C or C++
or prolog?

marcel@ads.com
From: rwojcik@atc.boeing.com (Richard Wojcik,snake)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: How many sentences? Estimate?
Date: 30 Sep 92 18:47:18 GMT
Reply-To: rwojcik@atc.boeing.com
Organization: Research & Technology

In article 717778111@earth.njit.edu, benanav@earth.njit.edu (Dan Benanav) writes:
>fawcett@unix1.cs.umass.edu (Tom Fawcett) writes:

>>I would still like to hear:
>
>>1) Assuming you can come up with an approximate value, how will it improve
>>   your life to know this number? 
>
>>2) What does this have to do with artificial intelligence?
>
>>-Tom


>How will it improve your life to know the answer to these two questions?
>What does my answering have to do with AI?
>
>Note, you have just doubled the number of useless questions asked.  :)

Absolutely not.  Quite a few of us have been asking these questions, but to no
avail.  The reason for asking them is to better know how to answer your very
vague, general question.  It is a little like asking how many waves there are
in the sea.  Anyone who tries to answer such a question can legitimately ask
for more information on how to count waves.  Knowing what you intend to do
with the information can help to draw more sensible replies.

-----
Disclaimer:  Opinions expressed above are not those of my employer.

    Rick Wojcik   (rwojcik@atc.boeing.com)   Seattle, WA
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: prong@iss.nus.sg (Lam Chian Prong)
Subject: test
Reply-To: prong@iss.nus.sg
Organization: Institute Of Systems Science, NUS.
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 01:34:00 GMT

This is a test.
From: espen@coli.uni-sb.de (Espen J. Vestre)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: AI and Macintosh Experiences
Date: 1 Oct 92 10:34:18 GMT
Organization: Computerlinguistik, Universitaet des Saarlandes
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1a2



>Even though the Mac offers ease of use, don't you find it a little 
>constraining to be programming expert systems on them? The Mac eats
space 
>of all types (storage and RAM) for breakfast no matter what they're
doing, 
>and to top it off, it runs kind of slow condisdering it's processors. I
am 
>a Mac fan, but I think there are some drawbacks for using them on
projects 
>of this scale. 

I guess you have never used Macintosh Common Lisp, which definitely eats
*much less* RAM than any other Common Lisp I know of (I once even did
some small-scale CL programming on a 2,5MB SE...).  MCL is also
remarkably fast.
From: blom@husc8.harvard.edu (Eric Blom)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Is there an FAQ here?  Where?
Keywords: FAQ Frequently Asked Questions frequently asked questions
Date: 6 Oct 92 22:12:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc8.blom.718409565

Is there an FAQ out there somewhere?  Or maybe a lengthy treatise covering
the major types of AI?  I've read a few books on the subject, but I'd like
to know more about the actual computer algorithms, and also, where to find
AI-related programs on the net.  I imagine that if there is an FAQ I just
missed it or something.  I'm new here . . .

THANKS!!

Eric Blom <blom@husc8.harvard.edu>
"'false' is false."
Xref: sparky comp.ai:3750 comp.ai.neural-nets:3754
From: wcalvin@hardy.u.washington.edu (William Calvin)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: What hardware did Sejnowski originally use for NETalk?
Date: 5 Oct 92 13:14:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Oct5.131436.23983
Organization: University of Washington

breese@monet.imada.ou.dk (Bjoern Reese) writes:

>Could someone please tell me what kind of hardware Terry Sejnowski
>at John Hopkins University originally used for NETalk? References
>are also most welcome.

He used a VAX.
    William H. Calvin   WCalvin@U.Washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai