leff@smu.UUCP (Laurence Leff) (07/18/88)
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 88 22:10 EDT
From: Laurence Leff <smu!leff@uunet.UU.NET>
To: ailist%ai.ai.mit.edu@uunet.UU.NET
Subject: Summary of 'Canadian Artifical Intelligence' July 1988
Summary of Canadian Atifical Intelligence July 1988
Short:
Xerox will stop manufacturing the 110 Series Lisp machine and its Descendants.
It will be porting its InterLisp environment to Sun Machines and should be
available by the end of the Summer.
Proposal for creating Special Interest Group on Educational Technology
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Discussion of AI applications toCanadian resource indistries.
Calgary D&S Knowledge Systems has a well-log analysis system which
runs on a PC>
A system uses vision to monitor thejoint angles on the boom and
stick of a Caterpillar excavator. The operator can now be a
a remote location and this prevents accidents.
CAIP has finished an expert system to evaluate the impact of forrestry
operations on fish habitats.
Acquired Intelligence has a project to anlayze oilseed commodities markets
and to provide veterinary expert system to Third World Country dairy farmers.
The British Columbia Departmentof Forestry will be uising an Analyst Avisor
to update forest inventory maps. Another system helps correlate maps
with photoimages.
SWIFTG provides epxert advise to severe weather forecasting.
ROKEY is an expert system to track pollution spills into groundwater. Another
one willhelp locate drilling waste sumps.
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AI in Education:
Simon Fraser University - Expert System to help develop Lesson Plans
Alberta Research Council and - computer managed learning system
Computer-Based Training Systems
Softwords - production rules in CAI
Laval University - BIOMEC, videodiscs and production rules
Universityof Saskatchewans - SCENT intelligent tutor for LISP
Laval University - geography tutor, nutrition tutor
simulation based optics
- SCARABEE, help students write adventure stories
- natural language basedwriting package
University of MOntreal - HERON, intelligent advisor for word processing
- data modelling in data base design
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AI research at Applied Systems, INc.
Scheduler for municipal transit operation
Expert System for highway transportation
Contract Evaluation Expert System
Expert Systems for use in ferries and similar ships including test runs
on the ocean-going ferrie, M. V.Carrie.
Expert System for telecommunications project
Sixth Generation Research
Project to build translating telephone between Japan, US and other coutnries.
Prototype Expert System Decision Aid for Truck Dispactchers
Spacecraft autonomy system for space satellites
Expert system for dealing with problems such as drivers becoming sick
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AI research at MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates
PREFORMA is a system to assist in weather forecasting systems.
Their system does twelve hour prediction of precipitation for
a single site using rules of thumb used by forecasters. Unfortunately
it is not yet as good as human forecasters.
SWIFT is a predictor of severe weather in Canada's prairie provinces.
It uses the SC4 statistical index of potential weather activity
and observed weather. It parses the remarks sections of SA wether
reports. It has spatial and temporal reasoning.
FEX automatical determines rivers, lakes, roads, railways and bridges
from remote sensing imagery. It uses spectral data, whether lines
are parallel indicating road shapes, whether lines intersect
other potential roads and knowledge that roads are not lcoated
in water and buildings are frequently near roads.
STAR is a system for predicting faults in off-highway logging trucks
and planning preventive maintenance systems.
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Acquired INtelligence Inc.
This system waincubated at the University of Victoria.
They have a Knowledge Acquisition methodology that will be developed
for PC/AT type machines. It will be interfaced with NEXPERTs.
Test systems include clinical neuropsychology
diagnosis of children's learning disabilities and brain dysfunctions
haematology
interpretation of geophysical instrument readings for mineral exploration
commodity market analysis
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Report on the Social Confernece
Report on the 1988 Distributed Artificial Intelligence Workshop
Report on Fourth IEEE Conference on Artificial Applications
Book Reviews
Visual Reconstruction by Andrew Blanke andAndrewZisserman
Logics forArtificial Intelligence by Raymond Turner
Manufacturing INtelligence by Paul Kenneth WWright and David Allan Bourne