kroger@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Jim Kroger) (07/13/89)
I am attempting to follow up on a discussion I was having with John M. Ford. John and I got connected through the Cybernetics and Systems mailing list. We were both interested in the notion of "software personalities." I lost contact with John when he got a job in the real world, and lost his access. If anyone can help me find the following people and papers, it would be enormously appreciated. John said that a person named Scott Stevens had responded to him and was sending him a preprint of an article. I would like to get this article, or better, get in touch with Scott Stevens. I have no idea where he is or what he does. His work might be related to the idea of software personalities somehow. John also mentioned that he had seen an abstract of an article by someone named Henrietta Shirk in a 1987 proceedings from an ADCIS conference. He had called her and was waiting for the whole paper, entitled something like "Computer 'personas' in CBI." I would like to get in touch with Henrietta if possible, but perhaps if someone could tell me what ADCIS means, I could track her down. Finally, John mentioned that he had a paper on the topic in the Rocky Mountain AI Conference Proceedings. Apparently it had to do with "conversational simulation." I would like to get this paper; does anybody know the full reference for these proceedings (when it was put on by who, etc.)? Of course, I would also like to get back in touch with John, if anybody out there knows him and how to reach him (John, you out there?). Thanks for your time. Jim Kroger Applied Research Laboratories University of Texas PO Box 8029 Austin, Texas 78713-8029 kroger@cs.utexas.edu kroger@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu