LAWS@SRI-AI.ARPA (03/04/85)
From: AIList Moderator Kenneth Laws <AIList-REQUEST@SRI-AI.ARPA>
AIList Digest Monday, 4 Mar 1985 Volume 3 : Issue 29
Today's Topics:
News - Recent Articles and Rutgers Reports,
Information Science - Xerox NoteCards,
Humor - Kurzweill Reader & Analysis of AIList Contents,
Conferences - AI in Engineering &
Theoretical Issues in Conceptual Information Processing &
Southern California AI Society
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Date: 1 Mar 1985 13:32-EST
From: Leff@laurence, 300C%smu.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa,
Subject: Articles in the Applied Intelligence Reporter
Applied Intelligence Reporter Volume 2 No 3/4 (some material omitted
as it is a repeat of stuff I reported earlier)
Robots in the Workplace: Summary of material from James S. Albus work on
robotics.
An ad from Scientific Data Link 850 Third Avenue, New York NY 10022
(212) 838-7200 for various microfiche copies of technical reports on
artificial intelligence from
MIT 1-513 450 fiche $2100.00
Rutgers 230 reports 264 fiche $1395
SRI 285 reports $1800
Carnegie Mellon 600 papers Part I $2050, Part II $2150 Parts I and II $4000
Stanford 500 fiche $2425
Purdue (Pattern Recognition and Image Processing) 145 reports $1365
Maryland (Computer Vision) 313 reports $1750
Overview of Computer Vision
Tutorial on Lisp Iterative structures
Expert Systems for Executives
AI entering world of art (talks about computer graphics applications to art)
Russel H. Petersen is vice-president of marketing for Synthetic Vision Systems
Kurzweill announced a chip to recognize human speech. This is part of
an effort to build a voice-typewriter.
FMC established an artificial intelligence center in Santa Clara
California.
Synthetic Vision Systems was formed to sell technology to inspect and validate
the manufacture of semiconductor products.
AI companies are forming in the following states in descending order by
employment level: California, Massachusetts, New York, Michigan,
Florida, New Jersey and Texas
Technical Reports from Rutgers University
CBM-TR-139 Localization Problems and Expert Systems Allen Ginsberg
(discusses expert systems that handle localization problems as
opposed to classification systems such as disease diagnosis)
CBM-TR-145 "Shift of Bias for Inductive Concept Learning" Paul E.
Utgoff. $15.00
LCSR-TR-60 "Artificial Intellligence and The Social Sciences: A
Preliminary Report" Saul Amarel
LCSR-TR-61 "Knowledge Representation as the Basis for Requirements"
A. Borgida, S. Greenspan and J. Mylopoulous
LCSR-TR-62 "Introduction to the Comtex Microfiche Edition of the
Rutgers University Artificial Intelligence Research Reports" S. Amarel
LCSR-TR-64 "Leap: A Learning Apprentice for VLSI Design" T. M.
Mitchell, S. Mahadevan and L. I. Sternberg
LCSR-TR-65 "A Knowledge-Base Approach to Design", T. M. Mitchell, L. I.
Steinberg and J. S. Shulman (primarily concerned with VLSI design
issues)
LCSR-TR-66 "Verification-Based Learning: A Generalization Strategy for
Inferring Problem-Decomposition methods" S. Mahadaven.
Artificial Intelligence Reporter December-January 1985
Conference Announcements
The International Federation of Automatic Control
conference on Artificial Intelligence in Economics and Management
Robotics International of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers
Second Annual Robotic End Effector: Design and Applications Seminar on
March 19, 1985 at the Holiday Inn Livonia (detroit)
IEEE Computer Society on Robotics and Automation on March 25-28 1985 in
ST. Louis, Missouri
AT&T Bell Laboratories: Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in
Statistics AT&T Conference Center in Princeton NJ on Apr 15-16, 1985
Association Francaise d'Intelligence Artificielle et Systems de
Simulation in association with the Society of Manufactuirng Engineers
will present Intelligencia 85 at the Parc des Expositions, Porte de
Versailles, Paris May 21-24 1985
Robotics International of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers,
Robots 9 at Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan on June 3-6 1985
IEEE Comptuter Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition, San Francisco June 9-13 1985
Robotics International of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers will
sponsor the 34d Canadian CAD/CAM and Robotics Exposition and Conference
at the International Society
IEEE Computer Society seminar on Logic Programming in Boston,
Massachusetts
The Institute for Computer Engineering Research in cooperation with
the Intelligent Computer Systems Research Institute of the University
of Miami is presenting ARTELL 85 at the Philadelphia Civic Center on
November 4-7 1985
The Computer and Automated Systems Asssociation of the Society of
Manufacturing Engineers (CASA/SME) are holding Mechatronics/Autofact
Japan 85 at the New Osaka Fairgrounds in Osaka, Japan November 25-28
1985
Also an article urging cooperation between OR and AI.
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Date: 1 Mar 85 17:41 PST
From: Halasz.pa@XEROX.ARPA
Subject: Information on Xerox NoteCards
This description of the Xerox NoteCards system is a response to
inquiries that have recently appeared on several Arpanet discussion
lists.
A. Background: NoteCards is part of an ongoing research project in
the Intelligent Systems Lab at Xerox PARC investigating "idea
processing" tasks, such as interpreting textual information, structuring
ideas, formulating arguments, and authoring complex documents. The
NoteCards system provides an on-line environment for carrying out this
research. The principal reasearchers involved in this project are Frank
Halasz, Tom Moran, and Randy Trigg.
NoteCards is implemented in Interlisp-D and runs on the Xerox 1108
family of Lisp processors.
B. The System: NoteCards is intended primarily as an idea structuring
tool, but it can also be used as a fairly general database system for
loosely structured information. The basic object in NoteCards is an
electronic note card containing an idea-sized unit of text, graphics,
images, or whatever. Different kinds of note cards are defined in an
inheritance hierarchy of note card types (e.g., text cards, sketch
cards, query cards, etc.). On the screen, multiple cards can be
simultaneously displayed, each one in a separate window having an
underlying editor appropriate to the card type.
Individual note cards can be connected to other note cards by
arbitrarily typed links, forming networks of related cards. At present,
link types are simply labels attached to each link. It is up to each
user to utilize the link types to organize the note card network.
Within a note card, a link is represented by a small, active icon.
Clicking with the mouse in the icon, retrieves the target card and
displays it on the screen.
NoteCards includes a filing mechanism built around a special type of
card called a FileBox. In each FileBox are filed (i.e., linked by a
Filing link) zero or more note cards as well as zero or more other
FileBoxes. FileBoxes serve as a kind of categorization hierarchy for
filing note cards by "topics".
Browser cards contain node-link diagrams (i.e., maps) of arbitrary
pieces of the note card network. Each node in a Browser's node-link
diagram is an active icon that can be used to retrieve the indicated
card. Spatially organized information is also available in the form of
Sketch cards that allow the user to lay out line drawings, text, and
link icons in an arbitrary, zoomable 2-D space.
NoteCards is an environment that integrates several packages already
available in the Interlisp-D system, e.g., TEdit, Grapher, and Sketch.
NoteCards has a full programmer's interface. All of the functionality
in NoteCards is accessible through a set of well-documented Lisp
functions, allowing the user to create new types of note cards, develop
programs that monitor or process the note card network, and/or integrate
new Interlisp packages into the NoteCards environment.
C. Research directions: NoteCards was designed primarily as a
research vehicle. The following are some of the research topics that we
are pursuing using the NoteCards system.
1) User tailorability -- a system description language that a
non-programming user could edit in order to tailor the system to his or
her task and/or interaction style.
2) Argumentation -- use of a "truth-maintenance" mechanism to help
users develop and manipulate alternative argument structures.
3) Psychological issues -- investigations of the ways in which
NoteCards does or does not support real-world tasks.
4) Visual summaries of large networks -- investigations of other ways
to display network maps, including fish-eye graphs, trimmed graphs, 3D
graphs, indented outline, etc.
5) Multi-window management -- investigations of various abstractions
for building general multi-window management tools that take advantage
of inter-card dependencies.
6) Querying networks of cards -- design of a querying interfaces that
allow users to ask questions about the contents and structure of a
network.
7) Multiple user, interlinked NoteFiles -- providing distributed/shared
NoteFiles with links between different NoteFiles.
8) Alternative documents -- explore alternative document concepts, such
as guided tours (i.e., suggested paths through a network of cards).
9) Text retrieval -- investigate several methods for doing text
retrieval based on full-text search and statistical matching.
10) Object-oriented implementation -- we are investigating the
possibility of rewriting NoteCards in Loops.
D. How to get more info:
A technical paper on Notecards is in progress. For information about
the research issues surrounding NoteCards contact Halasz.pa@Xerox or
Trigg.pa@Xerox.
NoteCards is not at this time a Xerox product. However, Xerox Special
Information System's Vista Laboratories offers a limited licensing
agreement aimed at distributing NoteCards to groups doing related
research (Contact: NoteCardsInfo.pasa@Xerox)
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Date: Wednesday, 27-Feb-85 10:22:14-GMT
From: GORDON JOLY (on ERCC DEC-10) <GCJ%edxa@ucl-cs.arpa>
Subject: Humour
Re: Kurzweil Data Entry Machine (Vol 3 # 10 and others)
Can this machine read bewteen the lines ?
Gordon Joly
gcj%edxa@ucl-cs.arpa
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Date: Fri 1 Mar 85 08:58:01-MST
From: Stan Shebs <SHEBS@UTAH-20.ARPA>
Subject: Analysis(?) of AIList Contents
Yesterday I culled through 1 1/2 years worth of saved and printed
AIList digests (about 3 inches thick). The result was about 1/2 inch
of individual articles that are still of interest (mostly seminar
notices with abstracts) - about 16% of the original saved stuff.
Since I only printed out about 30% of the digests that actually came
by (the ones that were interesting when I read them), this works
out to approximately 5% of the total volume. This is in accordance
with the general rule that "9x% of everything is b*llsh*t". So
AIList is really not so bad, and the experimental technique has
been corroborated :-)
stan shebs
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Date: Monday, 18 February 1985 05:53:59 EST
From: Duvvuru.Sriram@cmu-ri-cive.arpa
Subject: Conference on AI in Engg.
CALL FOR PAPERS
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLICATIONS OF
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO ENGINEERING PROBLEMS
(AIEP)
The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum for
engineers all over the world to present their work on the
applications of artificial intelligence to engineering
problems. The conference will be held from April 15-18 1986
at Southampton University, England and will be preceeded by
tutorials in Expert systems and Robotics.
CONFERENCE THEMES
The following topics are suggested and other related areas
will be considered.
- Computer-aided design
- Computer-based training
- Planning and Scheduling
- Constraint Management
- Intelligent Tutors
- Expert systems
- Knowledge representation
- Learning
- Natural language applications
- Cognitive modelling of engineering problems
- Robotics
- Database interfaces
- Graphical interfaces
- Knowledge-based simulation
- Design Modelling
CALL FOR PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit three copies of a 500 word
abstract. The abstract should have enough details to permit
careful evaluation by a committee consisting of renowed
experts in the field. The abstracts should be accompained
with the following details:
- Authors' address, name, affliation. Indicate the
person to address all correspondence.
- The branch of engineering. If the paper addresses
engineering in general, then should be categorized
under GENERAL DESIGN.
- The topic area.
TIME TABLE
Submission of Abstracts: June 1st 1985
Notification of acceptance: August 1st 1985
Submission of Full Paper: November 1st 1985
INFORMATION
All abstracts should be sent to:
Dr. R. Adey, General Chairman, AIEP
Computational Mechanics Centre
Ashurst Lodge
Southampton S04 2AA
England
Inquires about exhibits, registration should be addressed
to:
Ms Elaine Taylor
Computational Mechanics Centre
Ashurst Lodge
Southampton S04 2AA
England
For more information in US contact:
D. Sriram, Technical Chairman AIEP
Civil Engineering and Construction Robotics
Laboratories
Department of Civil Engineering
Carnegie-Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
sriram@cmu-ri-cive.arpa
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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 85 13:13:12 EST
From: Chris Riesbeck <Riesbeck@YALE.ARPA>
Subject: Workshop - Theoretical Issues in Conceptual Information Processing
*** Call for participants ***
The Second Annual Workshop on
Theoretical Issues in
Conceptual Information Processing
May 2-3, 1985
The Peabody Museum of Natural History
Yale University
New Haven, CT
This year's workshop will focus on new research into memory-based models
of planning, reasoning, natural language processing, learning, and other
issues in conceptual information processing. The format will mix panels
and papers, with ample time for discussion and debate. We hope to
foster inter-laboratory interaction, with a session devoted to "What
we're going to do, we think," including research plans from as many
centers as possible.
Prospective speakers and panel leaders should contact Chris Riesbeck
immediately, and also submit, via mail or netmail, a 2 - 10 page
write-up, for distribution at the workshop, addressing the following
questions, if appropriate:
What specific domains, tasks, and examples will your
laboratory be investigating in the next few years?
What theoretical questions are involved? How does this
research fit in the overall picture? How does it follow from
previous research? What related topics are you NOT addressing?
Submission deadline: March 29. Notification: April 8th. Note: submit
earlier for an earlier response.
Rooms are being blocked at the Park Plaza hotel in downtown New Haven.
Information available from Donna Mauri.
SUBMISSIONS: LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS:
Christopher K. Riesbeck Donna Mauri
PO Box 2158, Yale Station PO Box 2158, Yale Station
Department of Computer Science Department of Computer Science
New Haven, CT 06520 New Haven, CT 06520
Phone: (203) 436-0606 Phone: (203) 436-0606
ArpaNet address: RIESBECK@YALE ArpaNet address: MAURI@YALE
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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 85 00:55:16 pst
From: Yigal Arens <arens%usc-cseb%usc-cse.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa>
Subject: Southern California AI Society
Announcement of the Second General Meeting of SCAIS
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and
Call for Abstracts
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The second general meeting of the Southern California AI Society will be
held on Monday, April 15 1985, at the University of Southern California.
The meeting will be devoted to the presentation of talks by members of the
local AI community. The talks should discuss recent new research results,
as opposed to being general project descriptions. Everyone interested in
giving a talk (graduate students greatly encouraged), or organizing a panel
discussion, should send a note containing:
1. Title of the talk, or subject of panel
2. General area of AI talk relates to (e.g. vision, natural lang.)
3. Name, institution, phone number, net or USmail address
4. Any audio-visual aids (besides transparency and slide projector)
needed during presentation.
5. Estimate of number of participants from your site.
to one of the following addresses:
ARPANET: scais2%usc-cse@csnet-relay
CSNET: scais2@usc-cse
USMAIL: SCAIS-2
c/o Yigal Arens
Computer Science Department
SAL 200
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0782
This information should be sent as soon as possible, and should arrive no
later than March 25, 1985. The abstracts themselves will be accepted until
April 8. While there will be no refereeing of the submissions, time
constraints will probably require us to limit the number of presentations.
Chances are we will not be able to accommodate requests to speak that arrive
late. We will try to provide at least 15-20 minutes per talk.
We anticipate there being some minor costs associated with the meeting, to
cover the "proceedings", lunch, snacks, etc. These should amount to
no more than $15, exclusive of parking.
The number of parking spaces reserved for the meeting will be 120. This
should be enough, but carpooling is encouraged nevertheless.
The next mailing will be sent on April 1, and will include precise location,
cost, parking arrangements, and schedule.
Yigal Arens
University of Southern California
arens%usc-cse@csnet-relay.arpa
arens@usc-cse.csnet
(213) 743-7848
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