HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: hendler@cs.umd.edu (Jim Hendler)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Advance Program Available - AI Planning Systems COnference
Keywords: Send your address!
Date: 14 Apr 92 14:31:35 GMT
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742

The Advance Program for the 1st International Conference on AI
Planning Systems is now available.  It has been sent to all AAAI
members and to several other mailing lists.  The conference will occur
on June 15-17, 1992 in College Park, Md.  The Advanced Program
includes details on registration, rooms, etc.  If you wish to obtain a
copy and haven't received one to date, please send email to Dawn Vance
(dawn@umiacs.umd.edu) including your US mailing address.
 Hope to see you all there, 
  Jim Hendler

-- 
    Jim Hendler
    Department of Computer Science
    University of Maryland	
    College Park, Md 20742
Xref: sparky comp.ai:1963 comp.graphics:5338
From: dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu (David Mark)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.graphics
Subject: Wanted: Advice on graphics from CLIPS
Date: 11 Apr 92 19:06:37 GMT
Organization: UB

Our research group is develping a rule base in CLIPS (C Language Integrated 
Production System), and we now need to have the system rpoduce graphical output.
We are working on SUN SPARCStations.  We would like to hear from people who 
have had experience with graphics from CLIPS, particularly under X-Windows, or 
could otherwise recommend an appropriate graphics library.

David Mark and Feibin Zhan
National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, New York

dmark@sun.acsu.buffalo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: wuzhibia@iscs.nus.sg
Subject: Prof. Keith Devlin email address wanted
Reply-To: WUZHIBIA@NUSDISCS.BITNET
Organization: Dept. of Information Systems and Computer Science, National University of Singapore
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 06:52:12 GMT

Can anyone tell me the email address of Prof. Keith Devlin at 
Colby College, Maine and wrote the book "Logic and Information"?
Thanks.

Please reply to wuzhibia@iscs.nus.sg

best
zhibiao
From: c-mt@uglab2.math.utah.edu (Thomas Murphy)
Subject: nn's on mathematica
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 20:46:31 GMT
Keywords: nn's, fuzzy logic
Organization: University of Utah, Dept. of Math
Reply-To: c-mt@math.utah.edu

Greetings,

   AI Exert magazine is interested in doing an article on doing
standard AI stuff with symbolic math packages such as Mathematica.
If you have experience in such a field and would be interested
please e-mail me about such.

thanks,
murph

-- 
Thomas Murphy           Product Review/Tech Editor        
c-mt@math.utah.edu      Computer Language and AI Expert
(801)581-3905           Miller Freeman Publishing
From: bm02@PL118f.cc.lehigh.edu (Bijan Marjan)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: GA Workbench
Date: 6 Apr 92 15:26:19 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University


Does anyone have a copy of Mark Hughes' C++ genetic algorithm program
called GA Workbench? 

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INTERNET: bmarjan@scarecrow.CSEE.Lehigh.EDU
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From: bause@pieter.uucp (Falko Bause)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Expert Systems for DOS or OS/2
Date: 9 Apr 92 06:49:44 GMT
Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: pieter

I need information on expert systems (name, price,  ... ) 
running under DOS or OS/2. Any hint is appreciated.
Sorry, if this is not the right group to post such a request.

Please answer by e-mail. Thanks in advance.  Falko

e-mail:  bause@ls4.informatik.uni-dortmund.de

-- 

Falko Bause  ( bause@pieter.informatik.uni-dortmund.de )
Phone: 049-231-755-4893
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: ueberla@cs.sfu.ca (Joerg Ueberla)
Subject: ICASSP92 proceedings?
Keywords: acoustics,speech,signal processing
Organization: Simon Fraser University
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 22:58:52 GMT

I would like to order the ICASSP92 conference proceedings. Does anyone
have an email address, fax or phone number for that purpose? How long
does it usually take for them to be printed and will there be some
preprints available? All help is most welcome.
Thanks in advance,

Joerg
ueberla@cs.sfu.ca

Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: serdar@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Serdar Uckun)
Subject: 1987 Uncertainty Workshop proceedings available
Followup-To: misc.test
Originator: serdar@taacman
Organization: Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, TN, USA
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 18:47:13 GMT

I have no use for my copy of the 1987 Uncertainty Workshop proceedings
(or working notes, whatever).  If you're interested, you can have it
for free -- I'd expect you to pay shipping costs, though.

Serdar Uckun
Biomedical Engineering
Vanderbilt University
From: haasdijk@fwi.uva.nl (Evert Haasdijk)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Fifth Generation Project literature
Keywords: ai architecture
Date: 12 Apr 92 20:03:30 GMT
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam

I'm writing a short article on computer architectures for AI, and I was 
wondering if someone could give me a couple of pointers to relevant
articles (preferably recent). 

I'm especially looking for an overview of the work done in this project.

Thanks in advance, 

	Evert Haasdijk
	University of Amsterdam
	email: haasdijk@gene.fwi.uva.nl
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: kfieldin@gollum (Kenneth H. Fielding)
Subject: wanted: Computer Vision by Ballard and Brown
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 13:48:32 GMT
Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology


I am looking for a used copy of 
Computer Vision by Ballard and Brown

If you are willing to sell a copy
please contact me at 

kfieldin@galaxy.afit.af.mil
From: tusveld@ictser.UUCP (Fred Tusveld)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Application of Case-Based Reasoning to Training
Keywords: CBR, ITS
Date: 16 Apr 92 10:07:25 GMT




Hello,

I'm interested in finding out if Case-Based Reasoning is being applied 
in Intelligent Tutoring Systems or training systems.

I'd appreciate it if anyone could point out some references to this subject.


Thanks in advance.



Fred Tusveld
ICT Automatisering Deventer BV
tel. +31 5700 33888
fax. +31 5700 21362
Keulenstraat 7
P.O. Box 701
7400 AS Deventer
The Netherlands
email :
tusveld@ict.nl
From: miles@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: GB parser available?
Date: 8 Apr 92 10:42:15 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

Hello all,

I'm currently looking at the problem of parsing unrestricted texts
using formal, explicit grammars (ie. not stochastic).  One idea
that I have is to compensate for undergeneration by using "Principles"
of grammar: the principles can infer the missing rule(s) from the
grammar.  To this end, I'd like to play around with a GB parser.
Anyone know where I can get hold of such a beast?

Yours in hope,


Miles
miles@minster.york.ac.uk	"All is vanity".
Newsgroups: comp.ai
From: seligman@starbase.mitre.org (Len Seligman)
Subject: PD AI applications for prototyping
Keywords: AI, DBMS, active database
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Distribution: global
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1992 19:42:13 GMT

I'm looking for candidate applications to use for prototyping my schemes for
integrating AI systems and active databases (DBMSs with limited inferential 
capabilities).  The application characteristics I am looking for include:

        - the application requires (at least in principle) the monitoring of
          a dynamic multi-user database
        - the application already exists
        - it is public domain (or at least accessible by an employee of a
	  Federally Funded Research and Development Center)
        - it will run on a Sparcstation (preferably in Lisp or in a language
	  built on top of Lisp)

I'm doing this as a part of an IR&D effort at MITRE and also for my 
dissertation.  Please send suggestions and any pointers to seligman@mitre.org.

Thanks,
Len Seligman
The MITRE Corporation
McLean, VA
(703) 883-5975
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.shells
From: edward@iti.gov.sg (Edward Lim)
Subject: Wanted: Info on Diagnostic Systems for Medicine
Originator: edward@paulina.iti.gov.sg
Keywords: medical expert systems, CBR, case-based reasoning, tutoring
Organization: Information Technology Institute, National Computer Board, Singapore
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 02:40:28 GMT


Hi, 

   We are planning to start a project with the Faculty of Medicine of the
National University of Singapore to develop a prototype to diagnose diseases
in urology.  The prototype is not for diagnosis per se but also for use by
medical students to learn how to diagnose urological diseases.  More
specifically, the student will present the system with a case (sign, symptoms
etc.) and the system will solve the problem using case-based reasoning (CBR)
techniques.  The student can then probe the problem solving process that the
system used in arriving at the diagnosis, internalize it and hopefully learn
from it.

   Any pointers to relevant literature or related work will be most
appreciated.   Please email responses to me.  If you would like a summary of
the responses, email me also.  I'll summarize to the net if there is a demand
for it.

   Thanks in advance.

-- 
Edward Yew-Sih LIM			| Internet: edward@iti.gov.sg
Knowledge Systems Lab			| Bitnet:   edwardlim@itivax
Information Technology Institute	| Tel:      (65) 772-0902  Fax: (65) 770-3043
From: arb@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Andrew Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Compressing text files
Date: 11 Apr 92 19:59:32 GMT
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.

Are there any programs suited to compressing pure text files?  I'm sure
there must be something that can achieve a better compression ratio than
'compress,' perhaps by using the unix dictionary or something.  I have
looked in the FAQ and the indices to comp.sources.{misc,unix} but cannot
find anything.

Thanks,

Andrew.
-- 
arb@comp.lancs.ac.uk
From: jess@bally.com (Jess Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: books/source?
Date: 15 Apr 92 16:10:10 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Port Angeles Roughriders

I just learned to spell compression today so my apoligies for the
simple questions.

1. Book suggestions?  I read this group for the first time today and saw
	mention of "The Data Compression Book" by Mark Nelson.  
	Is this a good book?  Do you have other suggestions for books?

2. I need to compress a large segment of data in memory before breaking
	it up into packets and sending it with my own protocol. 
	On one end is a very simple board with ROM code.
	I would like to use a simple compression method on this
	data before sending it.  I don't have ftp access from here.
	Could someone send me some public domain algorithms and/or C source
	code that might fit the bill?  Or an ftp site and I'll find a way to
	get it.

Thanks in advance.

-- 

Jess Sullivan          jess@bally.com
Newsgroups: comp.compression
From: mpl@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (michael.p.lindner)
Subject: Wanted: Books
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Distribution: nj
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 23:12:02 GMT

I'd like to do some interesting experiments involving word frequency and
N-word phrase frequency analysis of book-type text from various subject
areas.  To do that I need to have such stuff available on-line.  Does
anyone have some text from a book (bible, text books, recipe books,
etc.) that they can send me?  This is for fun, not directly related to
anything I'm doing at work right now.  I don't have access to FTP,
either.  Please respond directly to me.

Mike Lindner
mikel@attmail.att.com
From: joel@ce.ucsc.edu (Joel Darnauer)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: 16:1 data compression
Date: 14 Apr 92 11:16:46 GMT
Organization: UC Santa Cruz

> news@isy.liu.se (Lord of the News)
>
> >I invented a compression algorithm last week that compresses everything down 
> >to one bit.  I'm still working on the decompression part, though.
>
>   Hah! That's trivial! I've invented a method to compress files to 0 bits
> Yes, that's right: ZERO BITS!


I want to be the first to announce such a decompressor:

#!/bin/sh
echo `date` | /usr/games/ching
#done!

It's a little bit lossy, but think of the therapeutic benefits!

joel darnauer

-- 
Newsgroups: comp.compression
From: awoolf@rp.CSIRO.AU ()
Subject: Re: Too much lossy encoding?
Keywords: PASC, audio
Organization: CSIRO Division of Radiophysics/Australia Telescope National Facility
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 04:51:05 GMT

Further to my last post, I wish to make an open apology to Mr Kurt Guntheroth and
to other readers of this newsgroup. My original reply to Kurt's posting was made
on the evening of the Friday of an unusually busy and unproductive week. The
consequent frustration resulted in me making a posting that I believe and other
people have remarked was very uncharacteristic. Aside from technical issues, the
style of my posting and the language used was rude and unnecessary. It is in no
way representative of the usual conduct of myself or other employees in my
organisation. Having realised the severity of the situation, I cancelled the
original posting on Saturday morning. However, it seems some sites still have
access to the posting. I regret the trouble this has caused and again apologize
to Kurt and other reader's of this newsgroup.

-Andrew Woolf
From: stas@soda.berkeley.edu (Stan Malyshev)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: LZ-family source in high demand
Date: 13 Apr 1992 09:11:05 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu


Please help me locate understandable sources (in C) to any of the
LZ-based schemes.  (The source to unix compress is not understandable
if one's sanity is dear to oneself, IMHO)

I wasnt able to find anything in the FAQ that pertained to and contained
useful non-trivial info about the LZ-family algorithms.

So, if you have any LZ78 or 77 variant source or know where it may be found
(on the net), please mail me it or its location.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Stan
stas@soda.berkeley.edu
From: wgkramer@cs.vu.nl (Ewout Kramer)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: Too much lossy encoding?
Keywords: PASC, audio
Date: 10 Apr 92 11:23:30 GMT

awoolf@rp.CSIRO.AU writes:


>               GONADS KEEP AWAY FROM COMP.COMPRESSION
> BULLSHIT!!!!!! There is a very large number of well known, commonly used

>You're obviously superhuman. Not only can you easily hear phase changes above
>22kHz, but you can see interframe pixel changes EVEN IF THEY DON'T EXIST!!

I guess you just WON'T understand what the guy means.
He's afraid that lossy compression techniques will make too much use of
rules saying 'you can't hear this, see that' as long as you cannot really
prove that. Is it wise to say that you can't hear frequencies > 22kHz?
Connect your computer to an audio set and let ik make a real lound 22kHz sound,
I guarantee you'll get headaches within 15 minutes.

How sure can we be that leaving out these frequencies won't influence
our perception of sound ???

>Think very carefully next time about posting on something you don't understand.
>Usenet treats such people very harshly.........

No, not usenet, stupid people like you who like to flame people just because
they think their superior knowledge gives them the right to open their
flame throwers at full power. Relax.




Ewout

(flame shields up :-) :-)
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: PKZIP encryption contest
Date: 15 Apr 92 20:31:36 GMT
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland

In article <B0m7iB2w164w@underg.UUCP> hardrock@underg.UUCP (hard rock) writes:
>Can someone please e-mail a copy of this sample zip file.  I am interested 
>in trying to hack it out.  I *hope* a couple of sick days from school should 

14433 Apr  3 14:39 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/arcutil/pkcontst.zip

"If you do not know how to go about getting this material users are
welcome to email me for the prerecorded garbo.uwasa.fi instructions
(long, circa 29Kb).  North American users are referred to the garbo
mirror on wuarchive.wustl.edu.  Oceanian users are referred to the
archie.au mirror.  The mirrors may lag occasionally, or might not
have all the files."

...................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.87.1
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun
Newsgroups: comp.compression
From: madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
Subject: Re: Too much lossy encoding?
Keywords: PASC, audio
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 12:13:59 GMT


I hate to give even the least little acknowledgement to such a flaming,
obnoxious, arrogant post, but there is a common misonception buried in
there.  That is that many people actually believe that there is physical
reality to the frequency domain.  The Fourier transform is a mathematical
artifice, and nature is not obligated in any way to analyze signals in
that way.  When you hear things like " the ear can't hear anything past
22 KHz", this implies that Fourier components above 22 KHz can be
removed with no loss to the signal.  This simply isn't true.  The ear
does not do a Fourier decomposition of the signal.  It is highly unlikely
that any natural system does that.  Even man-made systems only approximate
it with short-time discrete Fourier transforms.  Even though it is not
essential to this argument, the current research indicates that the ear
has a rather novel non-linear decomposition that can locate high frequency
signals in time accurately and low frequency signals in amplitude (sooner
or later we end up talking in terms of "frequency" since that's all we've
known how to analyze for the last few hundred years--maybe wavelets will
expand our viewpoint somewhat).

Mark Adler
madler@tybalt.caltech.edu
From: usgjej@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Jeffrey Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: arj 2.4
Summary: when will arj 2.4 be released...
Date: 15 Apr 92 13:59:10 GMT
Organization: Georgia State University

anyone know when arj 2.4 is expected....thanks
From: An-Ly Yao <anlyyao@igc.org>
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Date: 06 Apr 92 10:35 PDT
Subject: Re: 16:1 data compression
Nf-ID: #R:1992Apr5.954.1283@channel1:877151251:cdp:1345600001:000:346
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!anlyyao    Apr  6 10:35:00 1992


Hi Carl,

Of course you can compress any file 16:1. Actually - considering the prices
for 8:1 compression and 16:1 compreeion - I really have to think about
offering a compressor for 32:1 or 64:1. 

There is one problem however: the *de*compression. But that's annother story!
:-)  :-)  :-)  :-)  :-)

so long (or short), Goetz

Seoul 1992/04/07
From: lusardi@acsu.buffalo.edu (Christopher Lusardi)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: Some Code from MN's Book for Image Compression
Date: 10 Apr 92 18:27:10 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo/Comp Sci

I have abandoned MN's program, but I can now put a decompressed image on
the screen with my modified MN program (on-line). The bug in my program is 
that I didn't "ROUND(result)" in the routine WriteDCTData, but MN's program
does. 

The resulting image is similar to the original but this decompressed image
looks very faded to the human eye. Does anyone know how to improve my lossy 
program?
-- 
Christopher M. Lusardi     University At Buffalo     lusardi@acsu.buffalo.edu
From: trb@ima.isc.com (Andrew Tannenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: Human visual system scaling for jpeg
Date: 15 Apr 92 17:15:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: ima.1992Apr15.171503.10372
Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138-5302

In article <2013@marlin.NOSC.MIL> bryan@marlin.NOSC.MIL (Dale Bryan) writes:
> I am trying to find a good reference for scaling a DCT
> coefficient matrix (n x n) using the contrast sensitivity
> of the human visual system.  Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.

I'm not sure what you mean by scaling here, but here are pointers to a
couple of Kodak patents that address halftoning and the human visual
system.  (The patent docs have further references in them.)

US Pat 5,051,844
Digital Halftoning with Error Diffusion
James R. Sullivan
Eastman Kodak Company
Sep 24, 1991

US Pat 5,070,413
Color Digital Halftoning with Vector Error Diffusion
James R. Sullivan
Eastman Kodak Company
Dec 3, 1991

These patents describe methods for improving computer generated
graphics using a human visual system response function.

	Andrew Tannenbaum   Interactive   Cambridge, MA   +1 617 661 7474
	(Interactive is a Kodak Company)
From: Peter_Gutmann@kcbbs.gen.nz (Peter Gutmann)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: 16: 1 data compression
Date: 11 Apr 92 06:33:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: kcbbs.23605.1019223684
Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand


  
In article <N02.22@csci1.csci.unt.edu> green alien space slime made  
  Orion Auld (N02@csci1.csci.unt.edu) write:  
  
>I invented a compression algorithm last week that compresses everything   
>down to one bit.  I'm still working on the decompression part, though.  
  
I wrote one of those too once.  I managed to compress the complete works of   
Shakespeare down to 16 bytes.  
  
At the moment I've got a roomful of monkeys with typewriters working on   
decompressing it all again.  
  
Peter.  
--  
    pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz || peterg@kcbbs.gen.nz || peter@nacjack.gen.nz  
                           (In order of preference)
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: DISLITE.EXE uploaded to garbo.
Date: 10 Apr 92 04:33:59 GMT
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland

In article <8APR199222283882@zeus.tamu.edu> jwl3885@zeus.tamu.edu (THIS SPACE FOR RENT) writes:
>In article <1992Apr8.195926.20292@uwasa.fi>, ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes...
>>and I wish that they would change their policy.  Nevertheless there
>>is no way I will accept this file to garbo FTP archives unless
>>PKWare officially and explicitly sanctions such dislite programs. 
>>Acquiring such a permission is up to the writer of a dislite.  We
>>will _not_ be part in any compromizing situation. 
>
>No flame intended, but I'm just curious why?  Is it illegal?  Could PKWare
>have a basis for a lawsuit?  If so, on what grounds?

John and I had a nice private discussion about this.  My main point
was that my view is already stated in the above in my last phrase. 
It is my privilege and right to decide about garbo.uwasa.fi policies
within reason, and one of these decisions is that I do not accept
cracks on our archives.  (There are some other program gategories
which we do not carry, even though unlike this one there is nothing
controversial about many of them).  I also stressed that I will
leave debating the litigation aspect to others.  My decisions are
not based just on whether something is strictly illegal and/or would
it hold in a court.  I do not need the hassle from potential
controversies, litigable or not.

An addendum.  If you wish to discuss the lawsuit issue in full with
other kind netters, please continue in misc.legal.computing. 
Besides, there are some similar and quite interesting discussions
going on in there and misc.legal already. 

...................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.87.1
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun
From: IO10968@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (I'M NOT JUST A NUMBER!)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: LHarc 1.?
Date: 4 Apr 92 20:35:52 GMT
Organization: University of Maine System

Hi,

Can anyone tell me where I can get a hold of the latest version of
Lharc? I have v1.13, but I know there is/are a more recent version.

Please email to IO10968@MAINE.maine.edu :-)

TIA,
Andre'
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