AIList-REQUEST@SRI-AI@sri-unix.UUCP (06/08/83)
From: AIList (Kenneth Laws, Moderator) <AIList-REQUEST@SRI-AI>
AIList Digest Wednesday, 8 Jun 1983 Volume 1 : Issue 13
Today's Topics:
PSL 3.1 Available
DEMONSTRATIONS AT THE JUNE ACL MEETING IN CAMBRIDGE
NSF FUNDS IJCAI TRAVEL; APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 6-15
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Date: 8 Jun 1983 0810-MDT
From: Robert R. Kessler <KESSLER@UTAH-20>
Subject: PSL 3.1 Available
PSL 3.1 AVAILABILITY
PSL (Portable Standard LISP) is a new LISP implemented at the
University of Utah as a successor to the various Standard LISP systems
we previously distributed. PSL is about the power, speed and flavor
of Franz LISP or MACLISP, with growing influence from Common LISP. It
is recognized as an efficient and portable LISP implementation with
many more capabilities than described in the 1979 Standard LISP
Report.
PSL's efficiency and portability is obtained by writing essentially
all of PSL in itself, and using an optimizing compiler driven by
tables describing the target hardware and software environment. A
standard PSL distribution includes all the sources needed to build,
modify and maintain PSL on that machine, the executables and a manual.
PSL has a machine oriented "mode" for systems programming in LISP
(SYSLISP) that permits access to the target machine about as
efficiently as in C or PASCAL. This mode provides for significant
speed up of user programs.
PSL is in heavy use at Utah, and by collaborators at
Hewlett-Packard, Rand, Stanford and other sites. Many existing
programs and applications have been adapted to PSL including Hearn's
REDUCE computer algebra system and GLISP, Novak's object oriented LISP
dialect. These are available from Hearn and Novak.
PSL systems available from Utah include:
VAX, Unix (4.1, 4.1a) 1600 BPI Tar format DEC-20, Tops-20 V4 & V5 1600
BPI Dumper format Apollo, Aegis 5.0 6 floppy disks, RBAK format
Extended DEC-20, 1600 BPI Dumper format
Tops-20 V5
We are currently charging a $200 tape or floppy distribution fee for
each system. To obtain a copy of the license and order form, please
send a NET message or letter with your US MAIL address to:
Utah Symbolic Computation Group Secretary University of Utah - Dept.
of Computer Science 3160 Merrill Engineering Building Salt Lake City,
Utah 84112
ARPANET: CRUSE@UTAH-20 USENET: utah-cs!cruse
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Date: Fri 3 Jun 83 10:03:46-PDT
From: Don Walker <WALKER@SRI-AI.ARPA>
Subject: DEMONSTRATIONS AT THE JUNE ACL MEETING IN CAMBRIDGE
[I apologize for not picking up on this and the next item sooner. I
try to report pertinent items from other BBoards, but haven't quite
mastered the habit yet. -- KIL]
People who want to demonstrate programs or systems at the forthcoming
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics at MIT
on 15-17 June should contact Jon Allen as soon as possible at
NLG.JA@mit-speech or 617:253-2509. A variety of hardware support
facilities are available. We would like to provide a good
representation of current capabilities at the meeting.
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Date: Fri 3 Jun 83 12:47:42-PDT
From: Don Walker <WALKER@SRI-AI.ARPA>
Subject: NSF FUNDS IJCAI TRAVEL; APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 6-15
TRAVEL SUPPORT FOR US PARTICIPANTS TO IJCAI-83
NSF GRANT APPROVED; DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS EXTENDED TO 15 JUNE
IJCAII has just been informed that NSF will provide a grant for travel
support of US participants to IJCAI-83 in Karlsruhe. The plan is to
support up to 40 US participants with travel allowances that average
$800 per person.
Because of timing constraints, we are asking US residents who are
interested in travel support for participation in IJCAI-83 to provide
us AS SOON AS POSSIBLE with a letter indicating:
request for travel support; plans for participation at IJCAI-83
(e.g. presentation of paper, participation in panel); expected
benefits derived from attending; willingness to provide a
post-conference report; current sources of research support;
availability of travel support from other sources; and a brief
vita.
Students are encouraged to add a letter of reference submitted by a
faculty member.
The applications should be sent to:
Priscilla Rasmussen
IJCAI-83 Committee on Travel
Laboratory for Computer Science Research
Hill Center, Busch Campus
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
The revised deadline for applications is June 15, 1983
The applications will be reviewed by an IJCAII selection committee.
The criteria for selection will be as follows: (1) current and past
achievements in AI (special consideration will be given to those who -
in the judgment of the IJCAI-83 Program Committee - contributed a very
high quality paper to the conference); (2) potential for contributions
in the field - that may be stimulated by attendance at the conference;
(3) lack of sufficient alternative funds to enable participation at
the conference. Priority will be given to younger, promising members
of the AI community who would not be able to attend the conference
because of lack of travel funds.
Please note that those who wish to be considered for travel support
through this grant must use US airlines for their travel to Germany.
Contact Iris Kay at Custom Travel Consultants (415:369-2105, 2115;
2105 Woodside Road, Woodside, CA 94062) for further information on
special US airline rates.
Saul Amarel General Chairman IJCAI-83
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