stanly@unmvax.UUCP (04/28/84)
SIGNUM is the Special Interest Group in Numerical Mathematics of the ACM ( American Computing Machinery). The group meets monthly for the academic year. At each meeting there is a talk on some subject related to computing or applied mathematics. The talks are not restricted to numerical stuff. If you would like to be on the mailing list please send a note to John. A correct address from unmvax is: WISNIEWSKI@SANDIA.ARPA@lanl-a.UUCP Stan Steinberg stanly@unmvax ******************************************************************* Rio Grande Chapter SIGNUM Meeting ********** Year end meeting and election of officers ************* Date: Tuesday, May 8, 1984 Speakers: Kathie Hiebert Dodd and Barry Marder - Sandia ********************************************************************** * * * OFFICERS ARE DESPERATELY NEEDED. IF PEOPLE DON'T VOLUNTEER, SIGNUM * * MAY NOT HAVE MEETINGS NEXT YEAR!!!! * * * ********************************************************************** Applied AI - "Brave New World" or "Catastrophe Theory Revisited"? Barry Marder Last year an effort was initiated at Sandia to develop a core of expertise in the field of artificial intelligence. One are of investigation has been expert system technology, which has been largely responsible for the present explosive growth of interest in AI. An expert system is a program that catalogs and makes readily available expert knowledge in a field. Such a system has been built and implemented at Sandia to aid in the design of electrical cables and connectors. The speaker will describe this system and offer some observations on artificial intelligence in general. VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION -- A FRAME BASED SYSTEM Kathie Hiebert Dodd Software has been developed that, when given certain characteristics from a scene such as the location of wheels, can identify vehicles. The image processing, ie extracting the characteristics from the scene is still done primarily on a VAX. Given the features a frame based code using "flavors" in the Zetalisp language on a Symbolics 3600 does the vehicle identification. The main emphasis of the talk will bo on the aspects of a frame based expert system, in particular the use of "flavors" and "deamons". ----------------------------------------------------------------- Location: The Establishment - Albuquerque Dukes Sports Stadium Price: 10.50 per person - serving Prime Rib (I think) Social Hour : 5:30 P.M. Dinner: 6:00 P.M. Talks: 7:00 P.M. PLEASE LET JOHN WISNIEWSKI KNOW BY NOON MONDAY THE 7TH IF YOU ARE COMING TO DINNER. If no answer leave a message with EVA 844-7747. ------- -------