LAWS@SRI-AI.ARPA (01/11/85)
From: AIList Moderator Kenneth Laws <AIList-REQUEST@SRI-AI.ARPA>
AIList Digest Friday, 11 Jan 1985 Volume 3 : Issue 2
Today's Topics:
AI Tools - CommonLisp Documentation & Lisp in C or Pascal &
Mac LISP & Xerox Machines,
Seminars - AI, Employment and Income (CSLI) &
On Comparatives and Superlatives (CSLI),
Conferences - The Lexicon, Parsing, and Semantic Interpretation &
IJCAI Student Positions & Expert Systems Hospitality Suites
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 85 09:21:37 EST
From: cugini@NBS-VMS
Subject: CommonLisp Documentation
Does anyone have ordering information for the "official" CommonLisp
specification (publisher, document number, cost, ...)?
Thanks for any help.
John Cugini <cugini@nbs-vms>
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Date: Wed, 9 Jan 85 15:45 PST
From: "S. Sridhar" <sridhar%wsu.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa>
Subject: Lisp in C or Pascal
I desperately need to port a Lisp interpreter to the HP 9000 (or HP 3000)
running 4.2 BSD Unix. For this purpose, I need that the interpreter be
written in C, or Pascal or any other machine-independent language.
Would anyone be kind enough to lemme know where I can get hold of such an
interpreter (or even a compiler) ?
Thanks a lot.
--- S. Sridhar (sridhar@wsu)
Washington State University
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Date: 9 Jan 85 07:59 PST
From: Newman.pasa@XEROX.ARPA
Subject: Mac LISP
Pardon me, I would like to correct the error in the posting I made
earlier. I quoted the ExperLogo brochure when I meant to quote the
ExperLisp brochure. What the relevant part of my posting should have
said was:
1) There is a company in Santa Barbara called ExperTelligence Inc. who
are purportedly developing a LISP (called EXPERLISP) for the MacIntosh.
The brochure I have says it "will be available for shipment in late
1984". 'Nuff Said.
My apologies to ExperTelligence.
>>Dave
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Date: Wed 9 Jan 85 10:45:07-EST
From: Wang Zeep <G.ZEEP%MIT-EECS@MIT-MC.ARPA>
Subject: Mac LISP
ExperIntelligence is now predicting an April '84 delivery for their Macintosh
Common Lisp subset. It should be lexically-scoped (unlike GC Lisp for the PC)
and will include a 68000 native compiler. Development is being done on a
Symbolics LISPM and there will be some sort of object/class system.
They have also advertised a LOGO. As I have never seen an Oct. 84 date
for the LISP, I have a feeling something got garbled in transmission. The
above information is straight from their technical support staff. Jan '85
MacWorld has a quick bite on ExperLisp in their news section.
If this is for real (all of my info comes from the company, not from a
neutral source), I'll get a copy and post a review of it. They seemed
nice enough....
wz
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Date: Wed, 09 Jan 85 14:54:59 EST
From: cowan@GE-CRD
Subject: Re: Mac Lisp Machines
There is a company in Santa Barbara called ExperTelligence Inc. who
are purportedly developing a LISP (called EXPERLISP) for the MacIntosh.
The brochure I have says it "is available at your local Apple Dealer
beginning October, 1984". 'Nuff Said.
I met one of the ExperLisp developers at AAAI; they are making
effective use of a Symbolics (they wrote a mac cross-compiler) and their
goals are quite ambitious. A SCHEME-like lisp interpreter was running in
August; I guess now they are working on the compiler and class inheritance
facilities. December's "release date" was March, but if they really
are developing a truly easy to use object-oriented window system, it will
take longer. When the gap between current date and "release date" narrows
to within two weeks, that's when to get next month's orders ready.
On a more optimistic note, it's pretty certain that sometime
in 1986, an Apple 68020 product running a completed Experlisp will be
available. If the lisp is efficient, benchmarks indicate [see Deering, p. 73
of AAAI-84] that the combination could be 1/4 the speed of a 1984 Symbolics.
Rich
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Date: 9 Jan 85 09:48:20 PST (Wednesday)
From: Conde.osbunorth@XEROX.ARPA
Subject: Re: Is Xerox Punting D-Machines?
Never! The Dallas operation made typewriters or something, and they are
moving to sunny Southern California. D-Machine will still be made.
DSC
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Date: 9 Jan 85 09:46:44 PST (Wednesday)
From: GMeredith.es@XEROX.ARPA
Subject: Xerox D-Machines Alive and Well
The manufacture of the Xerox Dandelions has been moved to the building
across the street from us here in El Segundo, CA. The production line
is in full swing and putting out high quality units.
Xerox has not given us any indication that the corporation will be
getting out of the lisp field. In fact, a recent full page ad touting a
15 year headstart in AI experience indicates otherwise.
Guy
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Date: 10 Jan 85 15:39:01 EST
From: DIETZ@RUTGERS.ARPA
Subject: False Alarm on DLions
Xerox isn't going to stop making D machines. They are apparently
quite profitable. They are also continuing to make Stars, and will
reportedly come out with a much cheaper Star soon. Dallas is being pared
back, but apparently not closed.
P. Dietz
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Date: Wed 9 Jan 85 17:21:34-PST
From: Emma Pease <Emma@SU-CSLI.ARPA>
Subject: Seminar - AI, Employment and Income (CSLI)
[Excerpted from the CSLI Newsletter by Laws@SRI-AI.]
ABSTRACT OF NEXT WEEK'S TINLUNCH
AI, Employment and Income
In a recent article in the AI Magazine, Nils Nilsson explores the
profound effects Artificial Intelligence is likely to have on
employment and the distribution of income. He presents an economic
and a psychological reason for his opinion that we should greet the
work-eliminating consequences of AI with enthusiasm, since they will
liberate people from unfulfilling work without necessarily harming
them economically. The article has drawn a number of interesting
responses, some of which have been published in a later issue of the
AI Magazine. This issue also contains a reply by Nils Nilsson to the
readers' letters. The variety of arguments, in the article and the
letters, both for and against an optimistic view of the social impact
of AI will serve as the basis for our TINLUNCH discussion. Nils
Nilsson will be present.
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Date: Wed 9 Jan 85 17:21:34-PST
From: Emma Pease <Emma@SU-CSLI.ARPA>
Subject: Seminar - On Comparatives and Superlatives (CSLI)
[Excerpted from the CSLI Newsletter by Laws@SRI-AI.]
ABSTRACT OF THIS WEEK'S COLLOQUIUM
``On Comparatives and Superlatives''
Consider a phrasal comparative like (1).
(1) Little died earlier than Dolphy.
(`Phrasal' comparatives, as opposed to `clausal' ones, are those which
instead of a clause have a single phrase after ``than.'') There are
(at least) two ways of approaching the semantic analysis of (1). One
is to view ``than Dolphy'' as essentially an elliptical description
for a certain degree, viz. the degree x such that Dolphy died x-early,
and to construe the whole sentence as basically a comparison between
that degree and another one, namely the degree y such that Little died
y-early. The other approach is to read (1) as primarily a comparison
between two people, Little and Dolphy, who are being compared with
respect to a certain `dimension'. The dimension is earliness-of-death
and may be formally represented as a function from people to degrees
which maps every person x onto the degree y such that x died y-early.
This talk adopts the second approach and explores its empirical and
theoretical implications. While the scopes of the comparison
operators themselves seem to obey constraints that have emerged from
studies of quantifier scope, this is not the case for the putative
scopes of certain other phrases. To accommodate this finding, I will
draw on recent work by Rooth and suggest a refinement of the analysis
which recognizes a distinction between scope-assignment proper and
something like association-to-focus. ---Irene Heim
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Date: Wed, 9 Jan 85 12:10:32 est
From: bellcore!walker@Berkeley (Don Walker)
Subject: Conference on The Lexicon, Parsing, and Semantic Interpretation
THE LEXICON, PARSING, AND SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION
CUNY Graduate Center, Auditorium
33 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1985
8:30 Registration with coffee
8:50 Welcoming
Steven Cahn, Provost, CUNY Graduate School
John Moyne, CUNY Graduate Center and Queens College
9:00 Linguistic Lexicography
Terence Langendoen, CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College
10:00 How to Misread a Dictionary
George Miller, Princeton University
11:00 Knowledge Management Support for Language Processing
Charles Kellogg, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp.
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Customizing the TQA Lexicon for Semantic Disambiguation
Fredrick Damerau and David Johnson, IBM Yorktown Research
2:30 Parse Trees as Lexical Projections
Joan Bachenko and Eileen Fitzpatrick, Bell Laboratories
3:30 Requirements on the Lexicon for Parsing and Generation
Robert Ingria, Bolt Beranek and Newman
4:30 Discussion
6:00 Dinner at Peng Tengs, 219 East 44th Street
FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1985
8:45 Coffee
9:00 The Nuts and Bolts of Lexical Access
Martin Kay, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
10:00 Text Files as Sources for Creating an Augmented Dictionary
Robert Amsler and Donald Walker, Bell Communications Research
11:00 The Lexical Base for Semantic Interpretation in a PROLOG Parser
Roy Byrd and Michael McCord, IBM Yorktown Research
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Lexicons for Conceptual Analyzers
Michael Lebowitz, Columbia University
2:30 The LSP Lexicon for Free Text Information Formatting
Susanne Wolff, Joyce London and Naomi Sager, New York University
3:30 Using a Lexicon of Canonical Graphs in Parsing
John Sowa, IBM Systems Research Institute
4:30 Closing
Advance registration is not necessary, and no fees will be charged for
the workshop.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Terence Langendoen, (212)
790-4574
John Sowa, (212) 309-1493, sowa.yktvmt.ibm@csnet-relay
Don Walker, (201) 829-4312, bellcore!walker@berkeley
Cosponsored by the City University of New York, IBM Systems Research
Institute, and Bell Communications Research.
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Date: 4 Jan 1985 12:34:16-EST
From: Linda.Quarrie@CMU-RI-ISL1
Subject: IJCAI Student Volunteer Positions Available
The Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence will
be held from August 18 to 24, 1985, at the University of California at
Los Angeles.
The I.J.C.A.I. Local Arrangements Committee is looking for student volunteers
for the August 1985 conference. Volunteers work approximately 8 hours during
the conference. Tasks include manning information desks, checking badges at
sessions, and distributing conference materials. In exchange volunteers
receive a staff T-shirt, free registration at the conference, proceedings, and
free admission to any tutorials at which the volunteer works. Additional
benefits include a party and great opportunity for meeting people from all
over the world.
Graduate students are encouraged to volunteer, and undergraduates are welcome.
Names will be taken for the next few months, with final assignments made
in July. Tentative volunteers are welcome. Volunteers will be taken on a
first come/first served basis, so reply now!
Reply to:
Linda Quarrie
arpanet address:
lindaq@cmu-ri-isl1.arpa
snail mail:
Linda Quarrie
The Robotics Institute
Carnegie-Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
phone:
(412)578-8815
(412)521-1968
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Date: 9 Jan 1985 8:55:30 EST (Wednesday)
From: Charles Howell <m15434@mitre>
Subject: Hospitality Suites for Expert Systems Conference
I am helping with local arrangements for the Expert Systems in
Government Symposium, which is being held October 23 .. 25 1985
in McLean VA. The conference will consist of a two day symposium
preceded by an optional tutorial day. The conference objective
is to allow the developers and implementors of expert systems in
government agencies to exchange information and ideas for the
purpose of improving the quality of existing and future expert
systems in the government sector. The conference is sponsored by
the IEEE Computer Society and the MITRE Corporation in
cooperation with AIAA/NCS.
We are expecting a wide variety of people to attend the
conference. I am specifically interested in hardware and
software vendors who would like to display their products during
the conference. The conference will be held in the Tyson's
Westpark Hotel. The hotel has a number of suites available for
vendor "hospitality suites". If you are interested, please
contact me. I'll put you in touch with the appropriate person at
the Tyson's Westpark, and I'll also keep track of the amount of
interest from vendors. If there is a lot, we may explore a block
reservation of some suites for the period of the conference.
Chuck Howell
(703) 883-6080 U.S.P.S.: The MITRE Corp.,
Howell at MITRE 1820 Dolley Madison Blvd.,
McLean, VA 22102
Mail Code W459
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