simulation@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu (Moderator: Paul Fishwick) (02/01/90)
Volume: 13, Issue: 8, Thu Feb 1 10:47:28 EST 1990
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| TODAY'S TOPICS |
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(1) SPICE Discussions
(2) Psychological Simulation
(3) Autodesk CA Program
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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 90 13:04:34 PST
From: mailrus!uunet!f4.n494.z5.fidonet.org!MIKINGS.UCTEEA@bikini.cis.ufl.edu (MIKINGS UCTEEA)
Subject: SPICE discussions
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Dear SIMUL readers,
I am new to this list, and am trying to find somewhere that the Electrical
Engineering CAD package SPICE is discussed. In particular, we are running
the SPICE version 3x as originated at Berkeley. We are using it for
teaching undergraduates about CAD, rather than complex design problems at
this stage.
In particular, it would be useful to be able to swop graphics device
drivers and models for various commercial devices. We have
collected/developed a few during the last year or so.
We also have tutorial material for SPICE/NUTMEG in the HP9000 (UNIX) and
DEC (VMS) environments.
Michael Inggs
Dept. Electrical and Electronic Engineering
UCT.
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From: Ivan Leudar <leudar%psychology-a.manchester.ac.uk@NSFNET-RELAY.AC.UK>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 90 15:55:33 GMT
To: fishwick%fish.cis.ufl.edu@NSFNET-RELAY.AC.UK
Subject: Request to be added to simulation mailing list
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY
Research Associate
Cognitive Science
The Departments of Computer Science and Psychology are seeking a Research
Associate to join a SERC/ESCR/MRC funded project entitled ``Psychological
Inference by Psychological Simulation". The project, which will run jointly in
the computer science and psychology departments, will investingate the ability
of human subjects to make inferences about the goals, plans and knowledge of
other persons, and will apply the results of these investigations to the
implementation of an intelligent computer interface capable of making
inferences about the goals, plans and knowledge of its users.
Applicants should preferably possess a PhD. in either psychology, artificial
intelligence, computer science or a related discipline. Preference will be
given to those candidates with a background in cognitive psychology and/or
artificial intelligence. Programming experience is essential.
The appointment will be made on the RA 1A scale (Salary up to 12,381 pounds
sterling), depending on age and experience, and will be tenable
from 1st April 1990 for a period of 36 months.
Applications, including a full CV and names of 2 referees, and further
enquiries should be addressed to:
Dr. Ian Pratt
Department of Computer Science
University of Manchester
Manchester M13 9PL
Telephone: 061 275 6223
Email: ipratt@uk.ac.man.cs
PROJECT DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS:
An important part of being able to get by in the world involves working out
what other people are thinking. Every day one must make inferences about the
likely beliefs, desires, plans, etc. of others. For example, suppose that
company employee E is told by his colleague F to take some coffee to a certain
office where a meeting has been taking place. Suppose further that E knows
that the meeting has just broken up. Then if E is minimally intelligent and
co-operative, he will not blindly obey the instruction, but will pass his
information on to F. In doing so, E has inferred the following:
(i) that F wants coffee to be taken to the office;
(ii) that F wants this because F has the goal of giving the people
in the meeting coffee; and
(iii) that F believes the people at the meeting are still in the
office.
We call such inference `psychological inference'. The proposed research
addresses two questions concerning such psychological inferences:
(i) how do people make them?
(ii) how might a computer make them?
The second of these questions is of great practical significance. If a
computer system is to understand and obey intelligently a sequence of
commands, it must have an interface that can infer the plans, goals and
knowledge of the person issuing those commands. The often obtuse and
frustrating reactions of computer interfaces, especially when the user
exhibits what to humans is an obvious misunderstanding, arises principally
from the inability of those interfaces to attribute the appropriate goals to
the user. Psychological inference has therefore been central to research into
intelligent tutoring, intelligent explanation facilities and dialogue
modelling.
The research will combine two themes: one empirical, the other
computational. The burden of the empirical theme will be to test a specific
theses---the `indexing thesis'---about the cognitive mechanisms involved in
goal-attribution. The experiments will involve presenting human subjects with
a series of texts and then posing them questions designed to gather data
comparing their ability to attribute plans to characters in the texts with
their ability to devise similar plan for themselves. The burden of the
computational theme will be to develop a computer program incorporating a goal
attribution mechanism that is consistent, as far as is computationally
feasible, with the data gathered on human subjects under the empirical theme.
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From: nelson_p@apollo.com
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 90 17:06:59 EST
Subject: CA Lab by Autodesk
To: fishwick@bikini.cis.ufl.edu
Does anyone have any experience with or comments about
the CA (Cellular Automation) Lab written by Randy Rucker
for Autodesk?
How easy is it to program? It says you can write your
own rules in C or Pascal; how well does this work with
different compilers/linkers? What are the pre-programmed
rules like? What about performance? Etc, etc, et
cetera.
Thanks in advance.
---Peter
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