HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: Kaizhong Zhang <kzhang@csd.uwo.ca>
Subject: Colloq. Wednesday, Oct. 14, 1992
Organization: Relayed-by-Sendmail
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 19:45:22 GMT
To: 42131_3665@uwovax.uwo.ca, KIRBY@VAXR.SSCL.UWO.CA, allcs@csd.uwo.ca,
        brenda@engrg.uwo.ca, creider@csd.uwo.ca, dawes@uwovax.uwo.ca,
        eagleson@uwovax.uwo.ca, elmarag@uwovax.uwo.ca, grads@csd.uwo.ca,
        hugh@engrg.uwo.ca, jjiang@uwovax.uwo.ca, m.kinnucan@uwo.ca,
        ont.events@newshost.uwo.ca, tague@uwo.ca, undergrads@gaul.csd.uwo.ca,
        uwo.general@newshost.uwo.ca, wy@apmaths.uwo.ca, zakaria@csd.uwo.ca

          The University of Western Ontario
            Department of Computer Science

                    COLLOQUIUM


Speaker: Professor Charles Ling, Western Ontario
Title:   Answering Connectionist Challenge
         A symbolic model for learning Past Tenses of English Verbs
Time:    Wednesday, October 14, 1992, at 2:00pm
Place:   MC 320
Abstract:
Are Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) more adequate models for
``complicated'' human learning tasks than symbolic learning methods?
What kind of tasks can be better learned and generalized
by using ANNs or symbolic methods?
We give some answers to these questions, and study a benchmark task
-- the learning of past tenses of English verbs. Connectionist models
have been claimed to be successful in solving this learning task.
MacWhinney and Leinbach (1991) pose a challenge claiming that no
symbolic methods can perform as well as their connectionist model.
We design a general purpose Symbolic Pattern Associator (SPA)
based on ID3 (see Quinlan (1986)) that can learn and generalize
from any patterns.
In comparison to the connectionist models, the SPA is able to
generalize much better to the past tenses of unseen regular and
irregular verbs. The SPA's performance is also more psychologically
realistic in many aspects. In addition, the SPA is able to represent
the acquired knowledge in production rules which are meaningful to
human observers, and which allow further generalization and integration
into other learning modules. On the other hand, the connectionist models
leave the acquired knowledge in a mysterious black-box.

This represents collaborative work with Steve Cherwen and Marin Marinov.

MacWhinney and Leinbach (1991). Implementations are not conceptualizations:
Revising the verb model. In Cognition, volume 40. Pages 121 - 157. 1991

Quinlan (1986). Induction of decision trees. In Machine Learning,
Volume 1. Pages 81 - 106. 1986.
Newsgroups: ont.events,ut.dcs.seminars,ut.dcs.theory
From: veronica@cs.toronto.edu (Veronica Archibald)
Subject: Gara Pruesse, Monday 19 October 1992: COMBINATORIES
Date: 13 Oct 92 21:57:53 GMT


           Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
              (GB = Galbraith Building, 35 St. George Street)

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

                               COMBINATORIES
                GB221, at 4:00 p.m., Monday 19 October 1992

                               Gara Pruesse
           Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

             "Generating Linear Extensions by Transpositions"

The set of linear extensions of a partially ordered set (poset) have been
the subject of much recent research.  The problem of counting linear
extensions was proved to be #P-complete by Brightwell and Winkler (1991).

Generating all instances of an object is an interesting problem with
applications to testing hardware, software, and for hypothesis testing.
Generalized Gray Codes form a particularly nice generation scheme, because
instances that are close in the listing are also close in the sense that
the difference between them is small (for a given notion of measuring
difference).  The best possible running time for a generation algorithm is
constant amortized time; i.e., O(E), where E is the number of instances
generated.

Generating all instances of a #P-complete object is especially interesting,
because it may well be that generating them is the best way to count them.
It was an open question as to whether #P-completeness, which implies
counting is hard, also implies that generating is hard.   We settle this
question by giving a constant amortized time generation algorithm for the
linear extensions of a poset.

We survey results towards a conjecture of Ruskey which characterizes the
posets for which a certain kind of Gray Code generation scheme is possible.
This leads to a algorithm for generating the linear extensions of a poset
that is optimal up to constant factors, and, in fact, is fast in practice.
This algorithm remains the only known constant amortized time generation
algorithm for a #P-complete combinatorial object.

This is joint work with Frank Ruskey at the University of Victoria.
Newsgroups: ont.events,ut.dcs.seminars,ut.dcs.ai
From: veronica@cs.toronto.edu (Veronica Archibald)
Subject: Vladimir Lifschitz, Thursday 22 October 1992: AI
Date: 13 Oct 92 22:21:22 GMT


           Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
              (GB = Galbraith Building, 35 St. George Street)

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

                                    AI
              GB221, at 11:00 a.m., Thursday 22 October 1992

                            Vladimir Lifschitz
                       University of Texas at Austin

                     "Languages for Describing Action"

Methods for representing properties of actions in logical formalisms are
usually explained on specific examples, such as ``Yale Shooting'' and its
modifications.  Competing methods are evaluated and compared in terms of
their ability to handle such examples.  We propose to supplement the use of
examples by another approach based on specialized declarative languages for
describing the effects of actions.  Each method is to be characterized as a
translation from an action language into a logical formalism.  Then the
claim that the method is adequate can be precisely stated as a soundness or
completeness property of the corresponding translation.  Different methods
(perhaps using different ontologies of action or different nonmonotonic
formalisms) can be compared by studying the expressiveness of the action
languages to which they are applicable.
Newsgroups: ont.events,ut.dcs.seminars,ut.dcs.hci,ut.dcs.graphics
From: veronica@cs.toronto.edu (Veronica Archibald)
Subject: Dr. Hirotada Ueda, Friday 16 October 1992: GRAPHICS & INTERACTION
Date: 14 Oct 92 17:36:54 GMT


           Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
         (SF = Sandford Fleming Building, 10 King's College Road)

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

                          GRAPHICS & INTERACTION
               SF3202, at 2:00 p.m., Friday 16 October 1992

                             Dr. Hirotada Ueda
                Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.

           "Automatic Structure Visualization for Video Editing"

We developed intelligent video analysis functions for the automatic
description of the video structure and the visualization methods, that user
easily understand and operate,  for the analysis functions as well as the
temporal-spatial video structures obtained by these functions.  The
functions offer such descriptions as cut separations, motion of the camera
and objects, tracks and contour lines of objects, existence of the object
and period of existence.  Further, identical objects are automatically
linked.  Thus the new visualization methods supported by object links allow
users to directly manipulate the structure itself, descriptions and raw
video data without paying too much attention to the levels within the
hierarchy of video information.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Marilyn Mantei                           Tele: +416-978-5512 Dept. of
Computer Science                Fax:  +416-978-4765 Univ. of Toronto
Email: mantei@dgp.utoronto.ca 10 Kings College Road Toronto, Ontario Canada
M5S 1A1

Newsgroups: ont.events
From: RONALD VERSTEEGH <verstee@gaul.csd.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re:  Colloq. Wednsday, Oct. 14, 1992
Organization: Relayed-by-Sendmail
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:47:42 GMT
To: 42131_3665@uwovax.uwo.ca, KIRBY@VAXR.SSCL.UWO.CA, allcs@csd.uwo.ca,
        brenda@engrg.uwo.ca, creider@csd.uwo.ca, dawes@uwovax.uwo.ca,
        eagleson@uwovax.uwo.ca, elmarag@uwovax.uwo.ca, grads@csd.uwo.ca,
        hugh@engrg.uwo.ca, jjiang@uwovax.uwo.ca, kzhang@csd.uwo.ca,
        m.kinnucan@uwo.ca, ont.events@newshost.uwo.ca, tague@uwo.ca,
        undergrads@gaul.csd.uwo.ca, uwo.general@newshost.uwo.ca,
        wy@apmaths.uwo.ca, zakaria@csd.uwo.ca


 

Newsgroups: ont.test
From: alex@mks.com (Alex White)
Subject: to ont.test
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Distribution: ont
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 12:54:29 GMT


testing, testing
From: lseed@hpb.hwc.ca
Newsgroups: ont.test
Subject: test
Date: 7 Oct 92 09:56:58 EDT
Organization: Health and Welfare, Canada

This is a test message.
L. Seed


Newsgroups: ont.test
From: dominic@skaro.genie.uottawa.ca (Dominic Richens)
Subject: testing testing 1 2 3 
Originator: dominic@shamin.genie.uottawa.ca
Keywords:  yabba, dabba, doo
Reply-To: dominic@shamin.genie.uottawa.ca
Organization: MCRLab - University of Ottawa
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 20:20:13 GMT




-- 
!@$^&*)($#$@!@#$^&*()_+_)(*&^$#@!$^&*()_+)(*&^$#@$^&*+_(*&^$#@#^&*()&*$#@(*&+_$!
 Dominic Richens  :  dominic@shamin.genie.uottawa.ca  :  Tel. (613) 564 9911 
      MCRLab, Dept of Elec Eng, University of Ottawa, K1N 6N5, CANADA   
"You construct intricate rituals which allow you to touch the skin of other men"
Newsgroups: ont.test
From: mheim@cogsci.uwo.ca (Michael Hiemstra)
Subject: just a test
Organization: University of Western Ontario, London
Distribution: ont
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 23:18:51 GMT
Originator: mheim@cogsci.uwo.ca


-- 
   Michael Hiemstra               E-mail: mheim@cogsci.uwo.ca
   B-14 939 Western Rd.
   London, Ontario Canada
   N6G 1G3
From: dclapin@hpb.hwc.ca
Newsgroups: ont.test
Subject: Test from Dave
Date: 7 Oct 92 13:51:17 EDT
Organization: Health and Welfare, Canada

 Well, this is my test message to ont.test
                   :-) 


DEE EFF CEE
Newsgroups: bnr.test,ont.test
From: lewis@bnrmtl.bnr.ca (Pierre LEWis)
Subject: Weekly test of outgoing news path (ignore)
Reply-To: lew@bnr.ca (Pierre LEWis)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Montreal, Canada
Distribution: can
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 05:01:06 GMT

Quote of the week:

   Age doesn't really matter, unless you're a cheese!

This is *only* a test, *please* ignore :-)!
-- 
Pierre LEWIS    +1 514 765-8207      ESN 852-8207
Internet: lew@bnr.ca                 Corwan: lewis@bnrmtl

Implementing standards is like walking on water -- both work best when frozen.
Newsgroups: bnr.test,ont.test
From: lewis@bnrmtl.bnr.ca (Pierre LEWis)
Subject: Weekly test of outgoing news path (ignore)
Reply-To: lew@bnr.ca (Pierre LEWis)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Montreal, Canada
Distribution: can
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 05:01:11 GMT

Quote of the week:

   > EMACS FOREVER!
   Are you referring to load time? :-)     [ts@cup.portal.com

This is *only* a test, *please* ignore :-)!
-- 
Pierre LEWIS    +1 514 765-8207      ESN 852-8207
Internet: lew@bnr.ca                 Corwan: lewis@bnrmtl

Implementing standards is like walking on water -- both work best when frozen.
Newsgroups: ont.test
From: tadr@doe.carleton.ca (Tom A. D. Riley)
Subject: stupid test
Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 17:15:12 GMT

this is the stupid test for today
From: jonathan@cs.yorku.ca (Jonathan Ostroff)
Newsgroups: ont.jobs
Subject: CV --- programming
Date: 8 Oct 92 14:08:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: yetti.1484
Organization: York University, Dept. of Computer Science

I am posting this CV for Mark Zilberman. Please contact him directly
for any further information.

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Mark Zilberman
Apartment PH210, 
1131 Steeles Avenue West,
Willowdale M2R 3W8.
Tel: (416) 398-5700

OBJECTIVE

Position in programming or Software Engineering.

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

1988-1992	Computer Studios (housed in General Astronomical
Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences) --- Manager of
programers and hardware engineers.  

Elicited Specifications for computer systems from various cutomers,
and supervised the development of software products as well as
hardware platforms. 

Specified, developed, coded and implemented an electronic catalogue
for the Leningrad Public Library with 10 million books, tapes and
manuscripts.  This project involved the deployment of 30 Atari
Computers and 2 IBM PCs.  The software was written in Atari Turbo
Basic and on the PC in Microsoft Quick Basic.  Developed and
implemented a text and gravertising in cable TV.  Investigated the
design of a hard drive with a speed-up factor of 100 over presently
available PC drives.

1984-1988	GAO FILM (housed in General Astronomical Observatory
of the Russian Academy of Sciences) --- Manager of Film Studios.

Developed astronomical films for presentation at scientific conferences.
Made films depicting the life of the researchers in the Observatory.

1980-1984	General Astronomical Observatory --- Sound Engineer.
Produced soundtracks for films. Professional Recording and mixing of
speeches at conferences.

EDUCATION

1974-1979	Leningrad State University, awarded Bachelors Degree
in Astronomy, specializing in Astrophysics.

PERSONAL DETAILS

Age: 36 years.  
Landed Immigrant in Canada.
Married with 2 children.

ACIEVEMENTS

Published articles on astronomy and geophysics in science journals
and in the popular press.






-- 
Jonathan Ostroff

Dep. of Computer Science,
York University,
From: geoff@zswamp.UUCP (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: ont.jobs
Subject: Position available in Richmond Hill
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 23:38:31 EDT
Organization: Izot's Swamp

   The company I work for is looking for a junior programmer.  I do not speak 
for them officially, but here's the basic info:

                         The Company and the Product:

   InSystems Technologies Corporation is a well respected name among Canadian 
insurance companies thanks to their InClaims product, a mainframe-based group 
insurance claims processing system.  Now that just about every group insurance 
providor in Canada has either bought InClaims or written their own system, 
InSystems is developing a new product: MOSAIC, a document assembly system not 
specific to, but very useful to, the insurance industry.  Half of the top ten 
insurance companies in Canada have already invested in MOSAIC. 

   Originally developed in ON CMD for the QNX platform, MOSAIC has been 
converted to Clipper (with some 'C') and operates under MS-DOS. 

                                   The Job:

   InSystems is seeking a junior programmer to assist in maintaining the 
existing Clipper/C product and/or participating in the evoluution of the 
product. 

                                The Applicant:

   Applicants should have some form of formal training in software design and 
development methodologies.  A basic knowledge of word processing, database, 
and 'C' is essential, and experience with Clipper or dBASE an asset.

   If hired, you'll be expected to learn our product and our business and 
participate in the direction, design, and development of MOSAIC.

                                  Interested?

   FAX your resume to InSystems at (416) 771-9375.

Geoffrey Welsh, 7 Strath Humber Court, Islington, Ontario, M9A 4C8 Canada
geoff@zswamp.uucp, [xenitec.on.ca|m2xenix.psg.com]!zswamp!geoff (416)258-8467
         Coincidentally, most people who fight for "fairness" would be
         significantly better off under the system they call "fair"...
Newsgroups: ont.jobs
From: murty@ecf.toronto.edu (MURTY Hema Sandhyarani)
Subject: signal processing job available
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 17:08:42 GMT

	A contract position is available at the University of
	Ottawa in signal processing.  The work will be carried
	out at the National Research Council.

	Graduate education required - Masters or Ph.D. graduates
	only.

	For further information call Dr. Zouhair Ben-Neticha
	at (613)998-8994

	

Newsgroups: ont.jobs,hamilton.jobs
From: u020@csx.cciw.ca (I. Wong)
Subject: Database Personnel Wanted
Organization: Canada Centre for Inland Waters
Distribution: ont
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 21:14:56 GMT

             Wanted: Data Entry & Collection 

Job Nature: Collecting, maintaining and managing multi-data sets.

Requirements: University or College Education.
	      Computer literate.
	      Good knowledge of database management.
	      Knowledge of Fortran and C language an asset.
	      Knowledge of DOS also an asset.

Term:         4 to 5 months contract, starting Nov or Dec 1992.

If interested, send your cv by e-mail to u020@cs.cciw.ca
     	      or mail to:
                         Isaac Wong
			 National Water Research Institute
			 International Programs Group
			 867 Lakeshore Road, Box 5050
			 Burlington, Ontario
			 L7R 4A6	

or if you know somebody who is a potential candidate, please pass
it on.

Newsgroups: ont.jobs
From: rodp@ender.ccs.yorku.ca (Rod Potter)
Subject: *** Computing New *** writing opportunities
Reply-To: rodp@orion.yorku.ca
Organization: York University
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:51:30 GMT

I'm posting this for a friend. Even if you don't have a Compuserve  
account, you can still send a message to Frank at  
72707.1171@CompuServe.COM


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

To: ALL                       Subj: COMPUTING WRITERS WANTED

Have you always wanted to write for Byte, PC or MacWorld?

Hey, so has everybody and their pet chimpanzee.

Why fight the crowds? Computing Now!, Canada's *only* newsstand monthly
dealing with computing technology, is looking for competent authors. We
may not offer exactly the same money or glory, but we do have a much
shorter waiting list, and much easier working conditions.

What kind of writing are we looking for? First and foremost, coverage of
topics that are difficult for us to handle internally. Companies and
events outside the Toronto area. Specialized products and applications.
Programming.

We also need lots of bread-and-butter material. Product reviews. How-to
articles. Programming tutorials (C, Pascal, Visual Basic preferred).

And, largest category of all: stuff we haven't thought of yet.

If you are interested, leave a reply for Frank Lenk, Executive Editor,
on this board, or e-mail him on CompuServe at 72707,1171. Or written
queries by mail of fax, to:
     Computing Now!
     797 Don Mills Road, 10th Floor
     Don Mills, Ontario M3C 3S5
     fax (416)696-7395.

We ask that you do not call by voice. All reasonable inquiries will be
rewarded with a genuine copy of our collector's-item author's kit. We
can't guarantee that we'll work with every Tom, Dick or George, but
anyone with good English skills and a knowledge of computing sufficient 
to log onto this system will find us quite accomodating.

Feel free to pass this message along to your friends or to other BBSes.

Cheers.

Frank Lenk
Executive Editor
Computing Now!


-----------------------------------------------------------------
Rod Potter                        Phone:(416) 736-2100  ext.22683
York University                   Email: rodp@orion.yorku.ca
T103 Steacie Science Library
North York, ON M3J 1P3
Canada                        Computing & Communications Services
From: elaines@sco.COM (Elaine Smyth)
Newsgroups: ont.jobs
Subject: Opening at SCO Canada in Toronto
Date: 16 Oct 92 14:06:41 GMT
Organization: SCO Canada, Inc.


******************************************
IMMEDIATE OPENING FOR A COMPILER DEVELOPER
******************************************

The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. is the world's leading developer of UNIX 
System software and applications. Founded in 1979 in Santa Cruz, California, 
SCO has a staff of over a thousand in our U.S., Canadian and European 
offices, and is recognized and respected throughout the computing industry 
as a trusted developer and supplier of premier open system software solutions 
for industry standard computers.  

--------------
JOIN THE TEAM:
--------------

SCO Canada, based in Toronto, builds the SCO Development System
products available world-wide to all software developers for SCO
platforms.  Featuring compilers for C and C++, dbXtra for graphical
debugging, and a host of other tools and libraries, the SCO Development
System is used to build graphical networked applications.  Now is the
time to join our skilled product team of software developers, technical
publications writers, and quality assurance staff.

------------------
COMPILER DEVELOPER
------------------

As part of a team of software developers, you will be responsible for
improving the quality and performance of the Development System.  This
includes feature implementation, debugging, and testing. Experience in
the internals of UNIX compilers and development tools is required.
Experience in programming UNIX applications, especially those which
exploit networking and graphical interfaces, is desired.


This position requires a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science
or equivalent.  SCO Canada offers an attractive salary and benefits
package plus a unique career opportunity. For immediate consideration,
please send your resume  to SCO Canada, Inc., 130 Bloor Street West,
10th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1N5.

No agency solicitation considered.