Laws@SRI-AI.ARPA (10/12/83)
From: Ken Laws <Laws@SRI-AI.ARPA>
The September CACM contains the following interesting items:
A clever cover graphically illustrating the U.S. and Japanese
approaches to the Fifth Generation.
A Harper and Row ad (without prices) including Touretzky's
LISP: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation and
Eisenstadt and O'Shea's Artificial Intelligence: Tools,
Techniques and Applications. [AIList would welcome reviews.]
An editorial by Peter J. Denning on the manifest destiny of
AI to succeed because the concept is easily grasped, credible,
expected to succeed, and seen as an improvement.
An introduction and three articles about the Fifth Generation,
Japanese management, the Japanese effort, and MCC.
A report on BELLE's slim victory in the 13th N.A. Computer Chess
Championship.
A note on the sublanguages (i.e., natural restricted languages)
conference at NYU next January.
A note on DOD's wholesale adoption of ADA.
-- Ken Laws