stanly@unmvax.UUCP (04/28/84)
SIGNUM is the Special Interest Group in Numerical Mathematics of the
ACM ( American Computing Machinery). The group meets monthly for
the academic year. At each meeting there is a talk on some subject
related to computing or applied mathematics. The talks are not
restricted to numerical stuff. If you would like to be on the mailing
list please send a note to John. A correct address from unmvax is:
WISNIEWSKI@SANDIA.ARPA@lanl-a.UUCP
Stan Steinberg
stanly@unmvax
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Rio Grande Chapter SIGNUM Meeting
********** Year end meeting and election of officers *************
Date: Tuesday, May 8, 1984
Speakers: Kathie Hiebert Dodd and Barry Marder - Sandia
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* OFFICERS ARE DESPERATELY NEEDED. IF PEOPLE DON'T VOLUNTEER, SIGNUM *
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Applied AI - "Brave New World" or "Catastrophe Theory Revisited"?
Barry Marder
Last year an effort was initiated at Sandia to develop a core of
expertise in the field of artificial intelligence. One are of
investigation has been expert system technology, which has been
largely responsible for the present explosive growth of interest in
AI. An expert system is a program that catalogs and makes readily
available expert knowledge in a field. Such a system has been built
and implemented at Sandia to aid in the design of electrical cables
and connectors. The speaker will describe this system and offer some
observations on artificial intelligence in general.
VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION -- A FRAME BASED SYSTEM
Kathie Hiebert Dodd
Software has been developed that, when given certain characteristics
from a scene such as the location of wheels, can identify vehicles.
The image processing, ie extracting the characteristics from the
scene is still done primarily on a VAX. Given the features a frame
based code using "flavors" in the Zetalisp language on a Symbolics
3600 does the vehicle identification. The main emphasis of the talk
will bo on the aspects of a frame based expert system, in particular
the use of "flavors" and "deamons".
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Location: The Establishment - Albuquerque Dukes Sports Stadium
Price: 10.50 per person - serving Prime Rib (I think)
Social Hour : 5:30 P.M.
Dinner: 6:00 P.M.
Talks: 7:00 P.M.
PLEASE LET JOHN WISNIEWSKI KNOW BY NOON MONDAY THE 7TH IF YOU ARE
COMING TO DINNER. If no answer leave a message with EVA 844-7747.
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