FOXEA@VTVAX3.BITNET (04/07/88)
IRList Digest Thursday, 7 April 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 18
Today's Topics:
Announcement - SGSET seminar "Coming of Age of Electronic Publishing"
- HyperCard stack with report on Hypertext 87
Call for Papers - IJCAI 89 in Detroit
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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 88 12:11:28 EST
From: Peter.Capell@CAT.CMU.EDU
Subject: SGSET Seminar Press Release
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For Immediate Release:
SGSET Seminar
May 23-24
Carnegie Mellon University
Contact: Peter Capell - (412) 268-8599
Hunt Library
SGSET Office
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Pittsburgh, PA - Carnegie Mellon University's Study Group on the Structure
of Electronic Text (SGSET) will sponsor a 2-day conference, May 23-24, 1988,
with the theme: "The Coming of Age of Electronic Text" The conference
will include discussions of the "practical aspects of coping with the
difficulties of making large amounts of text available for general
distribution," says William Arms, University Vice-president for Academic
Services at Carnegie Mellon. "The program will consist of five parts, each
of which addresses what we we feel are among the most pressing issues in
moving electronic publishing forward: real-world experience in electronic
electronic publishing, the capture of information, electronic text
processing, implications of structuring text for retrieval, and the
economics of information. SGSET's aim is to bring together researchers,
librarians, publishers, and information vendors and brokers in order to
facilitate the distribution and use of electronic text."
A listing of the first day's speakers includes:
o William Arms (Carnegie Mellon) - To open the sessions
o Mark Mandelbaum (ACM) - Chairing the session entitled:
"Experience with Electronic Text"
o Stuart Rothenstein (McGraw-Hill) - Speaker
"Experience"
o James H. Morris (Carnegie Mellon) - Speaker
"Experience"
o Adam Hodgkin (Oxford University Press) - Chairing the session:
"The Capture of Information"
o Jean-Paul Emard (Meckler Publishing) - Speaker
"The Capture of Information"
o J. Sperling Martin (Aspen Systems) - Speaker
"The Capture of Information"
o Richard A. Bowers (AITRC) - Chairing the session:
"The Processing of Electronic Text"
o Thomas Hickey (OCLC) - Speaker
"The Processing of Electronic Text"
o Sandra Mamrak (Ohio State University) - Speaker
"The Processing of Electronic Text"
o Dana Scott (Carnegie Mellon) - Introduction for Dinner Speaker
o Howard Webber (DEC) - Dinner Speaker
"A Manifesto for Electronic Publishing"
Registration is $150.00, includes everything except hotel expenses. The
SGSET Office is taking reservations at this time. Those interested may call
Peter Capell, (412) 268-8599.
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Date: Sun, 06 Mar 88 22:25:26 DNT
From: Jakob Nielsen Tech Univ of Denmark <DATJN@NEUVM1>
Subject: RE: HyperCard stack with report on HyperTEXT workshop available
Yes, I would like to have the announcement go out to the IR-List
as I assume that many people will be interested.
The stack does not contain the actual papers presented at the workshop
because of copyright problems. It only contains stuff written by myself.
It also includes 3 earlier reports which I refer/link to from the
primary report - the reason for this is to give some feel for the
hypertext situation even in a situation where I can only publish my
own stuff.
. . .
[Note: now that I have permission, and have received a copy in the
mail, I am happy to recommend this - there may be some later
distribution of this and related materials through ACM as part of
their new Database Products series (see Feb. CACM article by P.
Wegner). Meanwhile, see details below. - Ed.]
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 88 15:22:49 DNT
From: Jakob Nielsen Tech Univ of Denmark <DATJN@NEUVM1>
Subject: HyperCard stack with report on HyperTEXT workshop available
My report on the recent HyperTEXT workshop is now available
in a hypertext version in the form of a 400 K HyperCard stack.
To read it, you will need a Macintosh and APple's HyperCard program.
To get a copy of this electronic document please send two
double sided Macintosh diskettes to the following address. One diskette
will be returned to you with the hypertext report and the other will
be kept to cover postage and hanling.
Jakob Nielsen
Technical University of Denmark
Dept. of Computer Science
Building 344
DK-2800 Lyngby Copenhagen
Denmark
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From: Sridharan <sridhara@cel.fmc.com>
Date: 16 Mar 88 18:31:11 PST (Wed)
Subject: Call for Papers - IJCAI 89 in Detroit
________________________________________________
Eleventh International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
________________________________________________
Detroit, Michigan U.S.A
August 20 thru 26 1989
________________________________________________
The International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
continue to be the premier forum for international scientific
exchange and presentation of AI research. The next conference will
be held in Detroit, Michigan USA from August 20 through August 26,
1989. The conference is sponsored by the International Joint
Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Inc. (IJCAII) and is co-
sponsored and hosted by the American Association for Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI) and a broadly-based consortium of academic,
industrial and governmental institutions in the Southeastern
Michigan region.
The conference is designed to give representation to all subfields of
AI including research of all kinds. The conference will also highlight
the relationship of AI to other related disciplines. The technical
program will comprise a Paper Track focusing on empirical,
analytical, theoretical, conceptual, foundational aspects and applied
research; and a Videotape Track focusing on applications in all
subfields best suited for this form of presentation.
The Eleventh IJCAI will feature:
o an outstanding technical program;
o state-of-the-art exhibit of AI related hardware and software;
o stimulating and informative tutorials;
o special events that include prizes, awards, panels and workshops;
o visits to academic and industrial research centers and
o automobile manufacturing plants; and
o an interesting variety of extra-conference activities.
The official language of the conference is English, both for papers
and videotapes. The major areas and subareas are indicated below.
A. AI Tools and Technologies
A1. Machine Architectures, Languages, Shells
A2. Parallel and Distributed Processing
A3. Real-Time Performance
B. Fundamental Problems, Methods, Approaches
B1. Search Methods
B2. Knowledge Acquisition, Learning, Analogy
B3. Cognitive Modeling
B4. Planning, Scheduling, Reasoning about Actions
B5. Automated Deduction
B6. Patterns of Commonsense Reasoning
B7. Other issues in Knowledge Representation
C. Fundamental Applications
C1. Natural Language, Speech Understanding and Generation
C2. Perception, Vision, Robotics
C3 Intelligent Tutoring Systems
C4. Design, Manufacturing, Control
D. Perspectives and Attitudes
D1. Philosophical Foundations
D2. Social Implications
Submission Requirements and Guidelines
Important Dates
Submissions must be postmarked by: December 12, 1988
Notification of acceptance or rejection: March 27, 1989
Edited version to be produced by: April 27, 1989
Conference: August 20-26, 1989
Program Chair: Paper submissions, reviewing, invited talks, panels,
awards and all matters related to the technical program.
Dr. N.S. Sridharan
FMC Corporation, Central Engineering Labs.
1205 Coleman Avenue, Box 580
Santa Clara, CA 95052 USA
(408) 289-0315 sridharan@cel.fmc.com
Videotape Track Chair: For videotape submissions, editing and
scheduling of video presentations.
Dr. John Birk
Hewlett-Packard Labs.
3500 Deer Creek Road, P.O. Box 10350
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1317 USA
(415) 857-2568 birk@hplabs.hp.com
Other Contacts:
Local Arrangements Chair: Enquiries about local arrangements.
Dr. Ramasamy Uthurusamy
General Motors Research Laboratories
Computer Science Department
Warren, Michigan, 48090-9055 USA
(313) 986-1989 samy%gmr@relay.cs.net
Tutorials, Exhibits and Registration:
Ms. Claudia Mazzetti
AAAI Office, 445 Burgess Drive, Suite 100
Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA
(415) 328-3123
General Chair: For all general conference related matters.
Professor Wolfgang Bibel
Computer Science, University of British Columbia
6356 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, B.C.
V6T 1W5 Canada
(604) 228-3061 bibel@ubc.csnet
IJCAII Secretary-Treasurer:
Dr. Donald Walker
AI and Information Science Research
Bell Communications Research
445 South Street, MRE 2A379
Morristown, NJ 07960-1961 USA
(201) 829-4312 walker@flash.bellcore.com
Paper Track Submission:
Authors should submit five (5) copies of their papers in hard copy
form. Papers should be a minimum of 2000 words (about four pages
single spaced) to a maximum of 5000 words (about 10 pages single
spaced). Papers should be printed on 8.5"x11.0" or European A4
sized paper, with 1.5" margins, using 12 pt type and be of letter-
quality print (no dot matrix printouts). Each full page figure counts
for 500 words.
Each paper should contain the following information:
o Title of paper
o Full names of all authors and complete addresses
o Abstract of 100-200 words
o Length of the paper in words
o The area/subarea in which the paper should be reviewed
o Declaration of multiple submissions.
If the paper submitted to IJCAI-89 is similar in substance or form to
another paper submitted to other major conferences in 1989, this
must be declared by the author.
Papers will be uniformly subject to peer review. Selection criteria
include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of
results and the quality of the presentation. Late submissions will be
automatically rejected without review. The decision of the Program
Committee will be final and cannot be appealed. Papers selected will
be scheduled for presentation and will be printed in the Proceedings.
Videotape Track Submission:
Authors should submit one (1) copy of a videotape of 15 minutes
maximum duration, of applied research, accompanied by a
submission letter that includes
o Title
o Full names of authors and complete addresses
o Tape format (indicate one of NTSC, PAL or SECAM; and one of VHS
or .75" U-matic)
o Duration of tape in minutes
o An abstract not to exceed 100 words.
Late submissions will be automatically rejected without review.
Tapes will not be returned; authors must retain extra copies for
making revisions. All submissions will be converted to NTSC format
before review. Permission to copy for review purposes is
required and authors should indicate this in the submission letter.
This track is reserved for displaying interesting applications to real-
world problems arising in industrial, commercial, space, defense and
educational arenas. This track is designed to demonstrate the
current level of usefulness of AI tools, techniques and methods.
Tapes will be reviewed and selected for presentation during the
conference. The following criteria will guide the selection:
o Level of interest to the conference audience
o Clarity of goals, methods and results
o Presentation quality (including audio, video and pace)
Preference will be given to applications that show a good level of
maturity. Tapes which are deemed to be advertising commercial
products, propaganda, purely expository materials, merely taped
lectures or other material not of scientific or technical value will be
rejected.
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