simulation@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu (Moderator: Paul Fishwick) (10/08/88)
Volume: 5, Issue: 8, Fri Oct 7 15:27:59 EDT 1988 +----------------+ | TODAY'S TOPICS | +----------------+ (1) Simulation at the Georgia Institute of Technology (2) Rochester Connectionist Simulator Info. * Moderator: Paul Fishwick, Univ. of Florida * Send topical mail to: simulation@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu * Archives available via FTP to bikini.cis.ufl.edu, login as 'anonymous', use your last name as the password, change directory to pub/simdigest. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 4 Oct 88 20:08:43 EDT From: T. Govindaraj <gt-cmmsr!tg@gatech.edu> Posted-Date: Tue, 4 Oct 88 20:08:43 EDT To: simulation@bikini.cis.ufl.edu Subject: Ph.D. programs in simulation Cc: mitchell@gatech.edu At Georgia Tech, in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering we have a number of people involved in simulation. Since we have the biggest industrial engineering program in the country, we have a number of people doing research in traditional aspects of simulation as well as simulations in real time (or pseudo-real time if you want to be strict about it, :-) ). The "traditional" aspects of simulation deal mostly with discrete event systems. A number of my colleagues are interested in studying the statistical aspects of the simulation as well. Others are concerned with more theoretical, stochastic processes. My colleague Chris Mitchell and I develop simulations in real-time for both discrete and continuous dynamic systems as well as systems that have both characteristics in our research to develop intelligent decision aids, intelligent tutors, effective human-machine interfaces etc. Currently we have three major simulations: a flexible manufacturing system, satellite command and control (ground control) system, and an oil-fired steam powerplant. The primary languages that we use are C, Lisp, and Smalltalk 80, running on a VAX 11/780, Sun 3/60's, and Mac II's (and soon NeXT machines). Our research is supported primarily by NASA (Ames and Goddard) and ONR. I can provide more information to anyone who is interested. govind (T. Govindaraj) Center for Human-Machine Systems Research School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0205 UUCP: tg@gt-cmmsr.UUCP (404) 894 3873, 894 2300 ...!{allegra,hplabs,ulysses}!gatech!gt-cmmsr!tg INTERNET: tg@gt-cmmsr.gatech.edu or tg@gatech.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Oct 88 15:03:36 EDT From: Paul Fishwick <fishwick@fish.cis.ufl.edu> To: simulation@ufl.edu [[forwarded from neural net digest -paf]] Subject: Rochester Connection Simulator information >From: bukys@cs.rochester.edu Date: Tue, 27 Sep 88 09:57:20 -0400 The Rochester Connectionist Simulator is being made available by the University of Rochester for research purposes. No commercial use is allowed without the explicit written permission of the University of Rochester. =============================================================================== You can reach other users of the simulator via the users' mailing list: <simulator-users@cs.rochester.edu> If you are not on this mailing list, and wish to be added, send a note to <simulator-request@cs.rochester.edu> Please send bug reports to <simulator-bugs@cs.rochester.edu> We are interested in fixing bugs, but can't make any promises! Please make your bug reports as specific as possible. =============================================================================== If you are unable to obtain anonymous FTP access to the simulator distribution, you can still order a copy the old way. Contact Rose Peet Computer Science Department University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627 (USA) or <connect@cs.rochester.edu>, and she will send you the approriate forms. We are currently charging $150 for a distribution tape and a manual. If you have TeX and a PostScript printer, you should be able to produce your own copy of the 181-page manual. If you want a paper copy of the manual anyway, send a check for $10 per manual (payable to the University of Rochester) to Rose Peet at the above address. We do not have the facilities for generating invoices, so payment is required with any order. =============================================================================== This directory (public/rcs on CS.Rochester.EDU) contains release 4.1 of the Rochester Connectionist Simulator. Version 4.1 was released on April 5, 1988, and can be found in the file "rcs_v4.1.tar.Z". It is a compressed tar file, size 837215 bytes. When uncompressed, it should be size 3092480 bytes, and running the Unix "sum" program on it should yield "62514 3020". REMEMBER TO USE THE "TYPE TENEX" or "TYPE BINARY" COMMAND IN FTP WHEN RETRIEVING COMPRESSED TAR FILES!!! Official bug reports also reside in this directory: rcs_v4.1.patch.01 fixes a SERIOUS problem in the logging feature. rcs_v4.1.patch.02 fixes some minor syntactic problems in the doc. rcs_v4.1.patch.03 a missing "return" makes commands noops on SUN4 The patches can be applied by hand if necessary, but you will make your life easier if you obtain the widely-available "patch" program, and redirect each patch file into "patch -p". Other files of interest: rcs_v4.1.note.01 the doc's missing "urcsmanual" TeX files. rcs_v4.1.doc.tar.Z the manual, in postscript format, ready to print ------------------------------ +--------------------------+ | END OF SIMULATION DIGEST | +--------------------------+