MEISENSTADT@USC-ECLB.ARPA (07/12/84)
Human Cognition Research Laboratory, Open University, Milton Keynes, England
LOCATION: 50 miles north of London (between 38 and 60 minutes
by train, depending upon the service).
COMPUTING FACILITIES:
Symbolics 3600 Lisp Machine (for the dedicated use of this project), VAX
11/750 running NIL, Prolog, and POP-11, and dedicated lines to the Open
University's three DECsystem-20's running Interlisp, Maclisp, Edinburgh
Prolog, etc. ALL TERMINALS IN OUR LAB ALSO HAVE DIRECT ARPANET ACCESS.
ACTIVE AI PERSONNEL: Two tenured staff members, (Marc Eisenstadt and Jon
Slack), three research fellows, three Ph.D. students, and one consultant
programmer, all of whom constitute the Human Cognition Research
Laboratory's mainstream AI people. The OU also has other active
AI researchers on site, working under Max Bramer in the Maths Faculty
and Tim O'Shea in the Institute of Educational Technology. We are a
vigorous and growing group of researchers, and our current manageable
size enables us to offer the best AI computing facilities of any
academic institution in Europe.
PROJECT: "A Knowledge Engineer's Assistant for Constructing
Knowledge Based Fault Diagnosis Systems"
PROJECT SYNOPSIS: We are building a repertoire of rapid prototyping tools
intended to speed up both the analysis of verbal protocols (such as
those obtained during interviews with domain experts), and also the
encoding of elicited knowledge into implementable form. The applied
aspect of this work is the design of intelligent cross-referencing
and browsing facilities linked directly to a coding window. The
theoretical aspect of this work is an investigation of the process
of theory-formation as typified by modern day Knowledge Engineers.
CONTACT: MEISENSTADT@USC-ECLB, or telephone (international) 011-44-908-653149
or 011-44-908-661566.