Knowledge.Based.Simulation@ISL1.RI.CMU.EDU (03/13/86)
I found this interesting spoof and wondered if I could use it to zap people new to AI or who hang around the subject. It was interesting .... to say the least. --- rajesh kanungo _____________________________________________________________________________ FORTRAN CONTRIBUTED By Martin Merry in The Catalogue of Artificial Intelligence Tools Edited by Alan Bundy FORTRAN is the programming Language considered by many to be the natural successor to LISP and Prolog for A.I. Research. Its Advantages include: 1. It is very efficient for computation (many A.I. programs rely on number-crunching techniques). 2. A.I. problems tend to be very poorly structured, meaning that control needs to move frequently from one part of the program to another. FORTRAN provides a special mechanism for achieving this, the so-called GOTO statement. 3. FORTRAN provides a very efficient data structure, the array, which is particularly useful if, for example, one wishes to process a collection of English sentences each of which has the same length.
gcj%qmc-ori.uucp@CS.UCL.AC.UK (03/20/86)
Some AI packages soon could have interfaces to numerical code, particularly those in process control; expert systems will make decisions about a fault, then a simulation, written in FORTRAN, will be run to see if the fix will work. Gordon Joly ARPA: gcj%qmc-ori@ucl-cs.arpa UUCP: ...!ukc!qmc-cs!qmc-ori!gcj