[net.lang.st80] Smalltalk as an AI research tool?

krubin@gitpyr.UUCP (09/16/86)

	I am currently working on an AI project where we are 
using Smalltalk-80 as our implementation language. Are there 
others who have used Smalltalk to do serious AI work? If so, 
and you can talk about what you have done, please respond. I
would be interested in learning how well suited the language
is for serious AI work.
	We have plans to implement an (Intelligent Operator
Assistant) using an IBM PC-AT running a version of Digitalk
Incorporated's Smalltalk/V. Any comments on this software
would also be helpful (especially speed information!).


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                  Kenneth S. Rubin   (404) 894-4318
               Center for Man-Machine Systems Research
             School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
                   Georgia Institute of Technology
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         	        Atlanta, Georgia 30332
       Majoring with: School of Information and Computer Science
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sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk) (09/19/86)

>        I am currently working on an AI project where we are 
>     using Smalltalk-80 as our implementation language. Are there 
>     others who have used Smalltalk to do serious AI work? 

Xerox Special Information Systems (XSIS) has developed in Smalltalk,
an expert system shell similar to OPS-5, called HUMBLE.  Contact
Evelyn Van Orden at (818)351-2351 for more information.


Steven Litvintchouk
MITRE Corporation
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Bedford, MA  01730

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