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Summary No. 9 Report on current budget and increase in dues The Dalhousie Business School got a Sperry Explorer Lisp Machine and a copy of KEE. They are developing a system to manage foreign debts and plan an estimator for R&D projects, intelligent computer aided instruction and auditing. Xerox Canada has set up an AI support work Logicware has been acquired by the Nexa Group British Columbia Advanced Systems Institute will be set up to do research on AI, robotics, microelectronics. __________________________________________________________________________ Two assessments on the Japanese Fifth Generation project: ICOT is developing AI systems for fishing fleets, train control, microchip design, natural language transition. There are 600 researchers working on fifth generation projects and 600 on robotics. 1986-1988 funding is 102 billion yen and 1982-92 funding is 288 billion. The English to Japanese system will require post-editing and applies standard techniques. The Japanese have abandoned 'Delta', their parallel inference engine is 'gathering dust' They alledgedly threw 'hardware engineers' into a Prolog environment for which they 'had no background or interest' __________________________________________________________________________ Report on Natural Language Understanding Research at University of Toronto Reviews of Bertholt Klaus Paul Horn's "Robot Vision" Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning About Knowledge: Proceedings of the 1986 Conference