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From: farris@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Lorenzo Farris)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy,sci.philosophy.meta,talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Re: How to Build a Person (book by John Pollock)
Keywords: strong ai
Date: 7 Jan 93 04:45:56 GMT
Followup-To: sci.philosophy.meta
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

With regard to the brain-mind interface, this 'femto-second quantum
process' seems to be reaching a bit, IMO. If anybody knows, I would
like to here a little more about how this might be measured. (Being a
physicist, this is one piece of the discussion I should be able to
understand. )

Are there any other hypotheses running around about how the mind and
brain might interface?

			Yours in idly speculative curiousity,
				Lorenzo
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From: dmp@cs.bham.ac.uk (Donald Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Minds, Computers and Searle
Date: 12 Jan 93 20:13:59 GMT
Organization: Cognitive Science, Birmingham, UK


To set up a seminar I have to collect literature on the question:

"In what ways is it *useful* to think of the mind as a computer",

written by people roughly opposed to the position taken in John
Searle's new book --- i.e. by people who think that it is useful to do
so.

I'd be grateful for references --- please email directly to
D.M.Peterson@cs.bham.ac.uk as well as posting to the net.

Donald Peterson.
From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Colbys-Weizenbaum and Overcoming Depression 2.0
Date: 9 Jan 93 20:36:24 GMT



>      It seems a bit much for a system with no capability for living in the
> real world to issue advice on how to do so.
> 
>                                         John Nagle


Is there an implicit assumption here, namely that psychiatrists (and
other mental health care professionals such clinical psychologists)
always "live in the real world"? The very real situation is that the
"real worlds" of patient and the doctor do not coincide. Hence, "the
patient is sick".

See also "Illness as Metaphor" by Susan Sontag.


Gordon Joly      Phone  +44 71 387 7050 ext 3703      FAX  +44 71 387 1397
Internet: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk        UUCP: ...!{uunet,uknet}!ucl-cs!G.Joly
Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street, LONDON WC1E 6BT

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From: cantwell@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Jeff Cantwell)
Subject: AAAI DB still functional?
Organization: Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, TN, USA
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:50:44 GMT

I've been trying to reach the AAAI article database at the following address:

	am77@vma.cc.cmu.edu

My mailer says it doesn't exist.  Does anyone know if the AAAI db
still works, and, if so, what the correct address is? Thanks in advance!
--Jeff

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From: uro@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Uwe Dumslaff)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.edu
Subject: Conference Proceedings
Date: 23 Dec 1992 08:37:24 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Koblenz
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Keywords: ITS

I need the complete reference on the conference proceedings of

	The East-West Conference on Emerging Computer Technologies in
	Education (Moscow, 1992)

	Brusilovsky, P.; Stefanuk, V. (Eds.)

Who has published this issue??

Please use E-Mail!

Thanks,
	UD
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From: chess@McRCIM.McGill.EDU ()
Subject: Intelligent Tutoring Systems Research Forum
Originator: chess@kadumu.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
Organization: McGill Research Centre for  Intelligent Machines
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 17:19:17 GMT




Reference Wanted
----------------
I am trying to locate the following reference :
"Proceedings of the Second Intelligent Tutoring Systems Research Forum"
April 1988 San Antonio Texas .

Please note that the above is NOT the International Conference ITS .

The interuniversity loan staff at our library could not locate it in any
of the Canadian Libraries.

I would like to know either 
a) where this proceeding could be ordered .
OR
b) availability of the publication in a North American University along
   with call number so it could be interloaned.

Any pointers will be appreciated.

Sandy
chess@mcrcim.mcgill.ca
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From: D.Lukose@lut.ac.uk (Dickson Lukose) 
Subject: WANTED: CYC Project publications
Reply-To: D.Lukose@lut.ac.uk (Dickson Lukose)
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 17:56:26 GMT

Hi all,

Can someone in the networld email me a list of all known publications on the 
CYC project of Lenat et. al.

thanks in advance
Dickson Lukose            (D.Lukose@lut.ac.uk)


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From: wink@fwi.uva.nl (Onno Wink (I88))
Subject: ellips
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 11:12:46 GMT

Hi,

 The last two months I have been trying to fit
 an ellipse to a data-set.

 In other words, I have to find the Parameters:

 A x^2 + B xy + C y^2 + D x + E y + F = 0

 I have read a lot of articles about this matter, but
 am not able to implement one algorithm correctly.

 This may all be my fault, but is there someone who already
 implemented such an algorithm.
 This will save a lot of time.

 Thanks in advance..

                        Onno Wink.
                        University of Amsterdam.
Subject: Biologically Plausible Dynamic Artificial Neural Networks
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 05:53:57 +0000


          Biologically  Plausible  Dynamic Artificial Neural Networks.
          -----------------------------------------------------------

          A   *Dynamic   Artificial   Neural   Network*   (DANN)   [1]
          possesses   processing  elements  that  are  created  and/or
          annihilated,  either in real time  or  as  some  part  of  a
          development phase [2].

          Of    particular    interest    is    the   possibility   of
          constructing   *biologically    plausible*    DANN's    that
          models    developmental   neurobiological   strategies   for
          establishing  and   modifying processing elements and  their
          connections.

          Work  with  cellular  automata in modeling cell genesis  and
          cell pattern  formation  could  be applicable to the  design
          of  DANN topologies.  Likewise, biological features that are
          determined by genetic  or  evolutionary  factors  [3]  would
          also have a  role  to play.

          Putting  all  this  together  with  a view to constructing a
          working DANN,  possessing cognitive/behavioral attributes of
          a biological system is a tall order; the modeling of nervous
          systems in simple organisms may be the  best  approach  when
          dealing with a problem of such complexity [4].

          Any  comments,  opinions  or  references  in respect of  the
          above assertions would be most welcome.


          Many thanks

          Paul Fawcett.

          University of Westminster


          References.

          1. Ross, M. D., et al  (1990);  Toward  Modeling  a  Dynamic
             Biological   Neural   Network,  Mathl  Comput.  Modeling,
             Vol 13 No.7, pp97-105.

          2. Lee, Tsu-Chang,(1991);  Structure  Level  Adaptation  for
             Artificial  Neural  Networks, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

          3. Edleman,  Gerald,(1987);  Neural Darwinism the Theory of
             Neural Group Selection, Basic Books.

          4. Beer, Randal, D,(1990); Intelligence as Adaptive Behavior
             :  An   Experiment   in    Computational   Neuroethology.
             Academic  Press.

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From: calistri@oracorp.com (Randy Calistri-Yeh)
Subject: Looking for BBC blackboard
Organization: ORA Corporation
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:00:51 GMT

I am looking for information on the BBC blackboard environment.  My only
reference is from "The First Workshop on Blackboard Systems",
AI-Magazine, Spring 1989:

   "Joshua Levy described BBC, a flexible tool written in C on Unix
   for generating a blackboard system tailored to a set of specifications."

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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From: abdel@lcaohp1.epfl.ch (Abdelkader Belhi)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Scheduling for process planning
Keywords: scheduling, process planning, Constraint Propagation, Heuristic method
Date: 11 Jan 93 16:09:16 GMT
Reply-To: abdel@lcaohp1.epfl.ch
Organization: :


       Dear Netters,
            Could someone tell me the better method applied for an optimum scheduling in a 
process planning related to a specefic technology (turning, milling,etc):
    1- Constraint Propagation,
    2- Heuristic method,
    3- Mathematical method based on Operational Research technic.
 Please, if you have more information about this subject, sent it to the E-mail adress:
       abdel@lcaohp1.epfl.ch.

 Adress:
            Belhi Abdelkader
            Computer Aided Design Laboratory
            Mechanichal Engineering Department
            Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
            1015 Lausanne
             Switzerland
From: paquet@ift.ulaval.ca (Eric Paquet)
Subject: Packages for the implementation of MOPs needed
Reply-To: paquet@ift.ulaval.ca
Organization: Dept. Informatique, Universite Laval
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:24:13 GMT


	I am looking for packages to implement MOPs (Memory Organization Packages) as described in "Inside Case-Based Reasoning" by Riesbeck.

	I already have the Micro-MOPS model described in the book. I would like to compare it with other systems (particularly the CYRUS and IPP systems mentioned in the book).

	Can someone indicate me where I could find such systems ?

	Thank you for helping me.


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From: BPRASAD@cmsa.gmr.com
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: CFP: Concurrent Engineering -A New Journal
Date: 11 Jan 93 19:05:52 GMT
Organization: GM Research Labs

This is a check
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From: freedman@crim.ca (Paul Freedman)
Subject: petri nets and planning
Originator: freedman@bond.crim.ca
Organization: Centre de Recherche Informatique  de Montreal
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:51:25 GMT


IMHO, drummond's work has not exploited
the analytical machinery made available by the underlying PN formalism.

this article in particular is the most comprehenive that i know of:

R. Valette, M. Couvroisier, "Petri Nets and Artificial Intelligence",
Int. Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Factory Automation,
Australia, August 17-19, 1992.

(you might try writing to "valette@laas.fr" for more information)


here are two other articles with a more robotic orientation.
(the first describes how net invariants may be used for planning):

D. Zhang, "Planning with Pr/T Nets", 
Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation,
Sacramento, April 1991.

D. Zhang, "ROPES: a tool for generating robot plans",
Proc. IECON, 1990.


there is also some interesting work looking at the relationship between
girard's linear logic and petri nets, again in the context
of planning.
the first article mentioned above refers to this too.
(unfortunately, the other articles i have are written in french)

paul freedman
freedman@crim.c

CRIM, 3744 rue Jean-Brillant, bureau 500, Montreal Quebec, H3T 1P1 CANADA
tel: (514) 340 5748 / fax: (514) 340 5777

Xref: sparky comp.ai:4755 comp.ai.neural-nets:4709
From: sef@sef-pmax.slisp.cs.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Biologically Plausible Dynamic Artificial Neural Networks
Date: 5 Jan 93 22:15:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.C0EJ6q.972.1
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

In case it wasn't obvious (and it seems not to have been obvious to
everyone), the preamble to my earlier post

    << Though you cross-posted this query to a very large number of newsgroups,
    I am confining my reply to those groups that I read.  Blind cross-posting
    wastes a lot of net bandwidth and a lot of people's time. >>

was meant to explain why *I* was not sending my reply to all of the
newsgroups in the original list, not to criticize Paul Fawcett for the
original cross-posting.

I think that "blind" cross posting -- that is, cross posting or replying to
lots of newsgroups that the author does not normally read -- is a bad thing
because it can lead to lengthy arguments and discussions that occur in the
wrong groups and that the original author may never see.  So I avoid BLIND
cross-posting and try to discourage others from this practice.  But if Paul
reads all the newsgroups he sent his message to, I've got no problem with
the wide distribution of his original message.  It's quite possible that
each of the groups he targeted will have something interesting to say about
this topic.

-- Scott

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From: mcclanah@dlgeo.cr.usgs.gov (Pat McClanahan)
Subject: Re: FESA, Fully Employed Students Association
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 13:07:39 GMT
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John Sheppard :
>The point is that I have managed
>to arrange a deal with my employer who values advanced degrees to
>providing funding and time to do this with no loss of wages.  It is
>possible to work these deals.  You only need to explore your alternatives
>and be a little creative.

My employer is willing to put up money for me to pursue a greater
education, and seems willing to allow employees to take time even
in the middle of the day to attend classes.  So I would say that the
support is there from management for advancing myself educationally,
the problem is the fact that I live in Sioux Falls SDouth Dakota.  There
are some Masters level courses in business and even MIS, but nothing
available in serious CS.  That is why I am looking for alternaticves -
there is nothing locally avaiable.  I am lloking at what others
(like those of you who responded ) have done to get some new ideas in
an attempt to be creative.

>Carl Christensen writes:
>Well, as one who quit his job in order to go after a Ph.D. full-time, you're
>not going to like my response!

On the contrary, I agree and I understand what you said (well maybe I don't
agree totally).  PhD programs do take a long time and do require
a great deal of interaction between student and professor and other
students.  Has anyone , perhaps from the educational side as opposed
to the CS side looked into methods or concepts of offering this
level of education in some other fashion .  I mean with all the 
technology that we possess and , teleconferencing, networking etc. it is
interesting that some type of dmore emphasis has not been put into distance education
in this country.

If I could just figure out how I could tie a requirement for a PhD to
my current project I might be able to swing something, but sionce the
project only has 3 years (or so) left I have my doubts.

Anyway thanks for the responses and your input.  I think this is
an interesting topic and and it can only get better.  If I find anything
exciting I will post it.

Pat McClanahan
mcclanah@dlgeo.cr.usgs.gov
Xref: sparky comp.ai:4745 comp.ai.neural-nets:4693
From: sef@sef-pmax.slisp.cs.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Biologically Plausible Dynamic Artificial Neural Networks
Date: 5 Jan 93 07:41:37 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon


    From: paulf@manor.demon.co.uk (Paul Fawcett)

    
              A   *Dynamic   Artificial   Neural   Network*   (DANN)   [1]
              possesses   processing  elements  that  are  created  and/or
              annihilated,  either in real time  or  as  some  part  of  a
              development phase [2].
    
              Of    particular    interest    is    the   possibility   of
              constructing   *biologically    plausible*    DANN's    that
              models    developmental   neurobiological   strategies   for
              establishing  and   modifying processing elements and  their
              connections...

<< Though you cross-posted this query to a very large number of newsgroups,
I am confining my reply to those groups that I read.  Blind cross-posting
wastes a lot of net bandwidth and a lot of people's time. >>

I would just point out that adding or subtracting neurons from the
functional net does not necessarily correspond to adding, destroying, or
moving any physical neurons.  If a physical neuron (or functional group of
neurons) has a lot of excess connections, invisible changes in the synapses
can effectively wire it into the net in a large number of different ways,
or effectively remove it.

Something like my dynamic (additive) Cascade-Correlation model can be
implemented by a sort of phase change, rather than a re-wiring of the net:
A candidate unit has a lot of trainable inputs, but it produces no output
(or all the potential recipients ignore its output).  After a unit is
tenured, a specific pattern of input weights is frozen in, but now the
neuron does produce effective outputs.  I don't know if such a phase
transition has been observed in biological neurons -- it would be
interesting to find out.  Note that what I'm calling a "unit" might
correspond to a group of biological neurons rather than a single one.

-- Scott

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Senior Research Scientist		Phone:     412 268-2575
School of Computer Science              Fax:       412 681-5739
Carnegie Mellon University		Latitude:  40:26:33 N
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From: eifrig@beanworld.cs.jhu.edu (Jonathan Eifrig)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.compilers
Subject: Different Strokes for Different Folks (Was: Assessing a language)
Keywords: design
Date: 6 Jan 93 18:29:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: comp.93-01-018
Reply-To: eifrig@beanworld.cs.jhu.edu (Jonathan Eifrig)
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University CS Department

nharvey@probitas.cs.utas.edu.au (Nicole Harvey) writes:
>   I am involved in assessing a language. Does anyone know of a standard
>set of problems that I could use to judge the languages compabilities?

The Moderator adds:
>[It has long been my belief that preferences in languages is an entirely
>religious issue.  Computational capabilities aren't much of an issue since
>they're all Turing equivalent.  How is it for parallel multi-lingual
>object-oriented database update, to pick a few buzzwords? -John]

	I agree with the moderator here, although I would call language
preference a "religious issue."  I think that too many people think that a
new programming language has to be able to do everything that all the old
programming languages can in order to be useful; this results in the
crufty specifications for Common Lisp and Ada.

	More importantly, I think a programming _language_ should embody a
natural programming _style_.  The trend towards object-oriented languages
(C++/LOOPS) is a good example.  There's nothing that can be done in C++
that couldn't be done just as well in C, with the appropriate hacking
around with function pointers, but that's not really the point.  C++ makes
coding in an object-oriented style easy.

	For each style there is (or should be!) an appropriate language.
Prolog makes search-based programs easy, but nobody would want to write a
numerical analysis package in it.  Functional languages like pure ML are
great for manipulating quasi-static data structures, but I would hate to
write a network-flow algorithm in it.

	Surprisingly, there hasn't been much work in developing
heterogenous programming environments, to support a sort of "mix and
match" approach to programming.  Such tools would go a long way to
alleviating the language holy wars, I think.
--
Jack Eifrig (eifrig@cs.jhu.edu)       The Johns Hopkins University, C.S. Dept.
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From: ashwin@gatech.edu (Ashwin Ram)
Subject: Senior faculty position in Cognitive Psychology
Reply-To: ashwin@cc.gatech.edu (Ashwin Ram)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 01:35:00 GMT


		SENIOR FACULTY POSITION IN COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

			GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

COGNITIVE SCIENCE - The School of Psychology at the Georgia Institute
of Technology is searching for a senior faculty member in Cognitive
Psychology to be part of a major interdisciplinary thrust in Cognitive
Science. Cognitive Science at Georgia Tech includes basic and applied
research in focus areas including: (1) learning; (2) problem solving;
(3) language and communication; and (4) design. Candidates for this
position should add strength and intellectual leadership to one or
more of these areas. Assuming resources are available, the appointment
could begin in the fall of 1993. Qualifications should include
evidence of outstanding research achievement and a commitment to
working with Cognitive Scientists from other disciplines.
Responsibilities will include intellectual leadership, maintenance of
strong programmatic research, supervision of graduate student
research, and classroom instruction.

To apply, send vitae and names of references to:

		Cognitive Psychology Search Committee
			School of Psychology
		   Georgia Institute of Technology
			Atlanta, GA 30332-0170

Georgia Tech is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and a
member institution of the University System of Georgia.

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