[comp.ai] software personalites

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