shiflet@lll-crg.ARPA (07/24/84)
From: Angela Shiflet <shiflet@lll-crg.ARPA>
RESEARCH ANNOUNCEMENT
Ben-Zoma is a knowledge- and experience-based scientific/engineering advisor
which converses in technical English. It learns by abstracting
solution methods and language understanding derived from assisting users.
Requests, once converted to a frame-like form, are dispatched to a
distributed consortium of experts. These sources of expertise (e.g. MACSYMA
on LISPM, LM on a Cray, SMP on a VAX, as well as new experts) are callable
through drivers written in LISP. Ben-Zoma will create and dispatch code for
appropriate special-purpose processors (e.g. Crays, Cosmic Cubes, data flow
machines, and VAX arrays). Graphical displays of numerical data will be
incorporated where appropriate.
Work on this project has begun under the direction of Dr. Ted Einwohner
at the Univeristy of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
Computing Research Group, under contract to the Department of Energy.
Comments and suggestions are welcomed:
ben-zoma-discussion@lll-crg.ARPA
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