[net.ai] Expert System Wanted

LRL@PSUVM.BITNET (09/30/86)

Does anyone know of a general purpose expert system available for VM/CMS?
I'm looking for one that would be used on a university campus by a variety
of researchers in different disciplines.  Each researcher would feed their
own rules into it.

Also, can anyone recommend readings, conferences, etc. for someone getting
started in this field?

Thanks.

Linda Littleton                        phone:  (814) 863-0422
214 Computer Building                  bitnet: LRL at PSUVM
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA  16802

chandra@osiris.CSO.UIUC.EDU (10/06/86)

There is no General Purpose expert system in the world.
If you find one, you will probably get the Turing Award.

I will be very happy to recieve more information about
General Purpose Expert Systems. A breakthrough I am looking
forward to.

Please excuse my ignorance about this new technology. 

Thanks.

Navin Chandra
MIT

chandra@osiris.CSO.UIUC.EDU (10/09/86)

Hi,

FOUND!

There is an expert system shell for CMS. It is called PRISM.
PRISM is also called ESE (expert system environemnt).

It has production rule based programming and a interesting control
structure based on Focus Control Blocks (with inheritance)

ESE is available from IBM itself. It is written in lisp and was most
probably developed at IBM Watson Research Labs.

Navin Chandra
MIT

levin@zeus.cs.ucla.edu (Stuart Levine) (10/15/86)

In article <2200003@osiris> chandra@osiris.CSO.UIUC.EDU writes:

>There is an expert system shell for CMS. It is called PRISM.
>PRISM is also called ESE (expert system environemnt).
>ESE is available from IBM itself. It is written in lisp and was most
>probably developed at IBM Watson Research Labs.
>
Could you give us more info.  When we checked into the availability
of PRISM, we found that IBM was NOT making it available.
It would be interesting to know if that has changed.

Also, does it run in LISP (as in a lisp that someone would actually
own), or in IBM LISP?