[comp.sys.transputer] DAI and Transputers

qyl@computer-science.strathclyde.ac.uk (03/13/90)

Dear Mail List: 

  I am quite interested in Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI).
Could you please give me some information about

  1) Environment for DAI on transputers

     a) The languages used for Artificial Intelligence

     The OCCAM itself seems to be a difficulty language for developing
     AI system. Which languages do we use mostly to deal with AI systems
     in transputers now ?

     I remember that the group had discussed that problem several months
     ago. Could someone please send me the summary of the discussion ?

     b) Operating system, communicating tool or other tools


  2) Nowadays development of Distributed Artificial Intelligence in
     transputers

     Transputers are very powerful to support DAI. We are interested
     in how to implement the AI system in a transputer network. We would 
     like to know any experiences of building a DAI system on 
     transputers.

  Welcome any comments and information about references.

  Thanks a lot in advance.

Mr. Qiangyi Luo, Dept of Computer Science, Uni. of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
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zenith-steven@CS.YALE.EDU (Steven Ericsson Zenith) (03/14/90)

You could try :

"Parallel Processing and Artificial Intelligence", Edited by myself and
Mike Reeve. It's published by John Wiley and Sons and should be available
in all good book stores. The book results from a meeting held in London
by the Occam User Group AI SIG.

Contributors include:
Prof. Igor Aleksander - Myths and Realities about Neural Computing Architectures
Prof. Colin Besant    - Application of AI to the Programming of Robots
Prof. David Gelernter - Information Management in LINDA
Dr. Atsuhiro Goto    - R+D of the Parallel Inference Machine in the FGCS project
Prof. Tosiyasu Kunii  - A Communicating Process Architecture Model of Primitive
                        Image Understanding.
Dr. Rajiv Trehan      - Concurrent Logic Languages for the Design and 
                        Implementation of Parallel AI systems.
Prof. Les Valiant     - Bulk-synchronous Parallel Computing

You can contact the publisher direct on the following email:
gaynor@cs.nott.ac.uk in the UK and maybe from the USA if your
mail has a fair wind. 

Regards,
Steven.


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