aarons@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Aaron Sloman) (07/05/90)
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* POPLOG USERS' GROUP CONFERENCE 1990 *
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* JULY 17TH - 18TH *
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* OXFORD *
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I have asked Aaron Sloman to post this to Usenet, as Oxford still
doesn't have access.
We still have places left at the PLUG90 conference, and can accept
bookings if made quickly. The conference will be held in Oxford on the
17th and 18th of July; accomodation is provided in Keble College, and
talks themselves will be in Experimental Psychology. Registration will
open at 11 am on the 17th, with the conference proper beginning at 2; it
will close at about 4 on the 18th. There will be a conference dinner on
the night of the 17th.
We are keeping the price at #75 to members of PLUG and #95 to
non-members (#15 non-residential without dinner; #37 non-residential
with dinner).
Integral Solutions Limited, who distribute Poplog commercially, has
generously offered to pay for three free places. These will be offered
to academic members of PLUG who have not attended a PLUG conference
before, and who have difficulty raising funds. NO-ONE has yet taken them
up.
There's something for everyone here; talks on expert systems and
embedded real-time control; demonstration of a new neural-network design
tool, written in Poplog, and linkable to existing Poplog programs; talks
on applications of Prolog, and a new style of Prolog debugger; ... With
such variety, don't be surprised to find this posted to YOUR newsgroup.
If you haven't used Poplog seriously, why not start by coming to Oxford;
but hurry with your booking.
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This is the provisional list of talks:
"Pop9X - The Standard",
Steve Knight, Hewlett-Packard Labs. (1 hour)
Gives a review of the BSI standardisation process and
the progress of the Pop standard - the language YOU will be
writing soon (ish).
"Assembly code translation in Prolog"
Ian O'Neill, Program Validation. (30 mins)
State of the art assembly language translation in Prolog.
"THESEUS: a production-system simulation of the spinning behaviour of
an orb-web spider",
Nick Gotts, Oxford University Zoology Department. (30 mins)
As well as giving a demo, Nick will talk about his experiences
of using AlphaPop: Theseus runs on a Macintosh.
"MODEL: From Package to Language",
James Anderson, Reading University. (1 hour)
A six year old software package for model based vision
goes up in flames under the heat of self-criticism - to be replaced
by a language.
TALK INCLUDES VIDEO PRESENTATION
"GRIT - General Real-time Interactive Ikbs Toolset",
Mark Swabey, Avonicom. (30 mins)
Mark will talk about GRIT, but also about his experiences (nice
and otherwise) of Poplog as a development environment.
"IVE - Interactive Visual Environment"
Anthony Worrall, Reading University. (30 mins)
The software environment that beat the pants off MODEL
(based on MODEL and PWM and quite a lot of other things besides.)
TALK INCLUDES VIDEO PRESENTATION
"Embedded Systems",
Rob Zancanato, Cambridge Consultants. (30 mins)
Poplog for embedded systems - especially MUSE for designing
real-time controllers. We hope to have a demo of one such self-
contained system.
"Poplog Neural",
Colin Shearer, Integral Solutions Ltd. (30 mins)
A demonstration of ISL's new neural-networking system.
It's implemented in Poplog, does its number crunching in Fortran,
and allows you to build and test nets by drawing on a window.
Fully interfaceable with Pop-11, Prolog, Lisp and ML.
"Doing representation theory in Prolog",
John Fitzgerald, Oxford University Maths Department. (30 mins)
Representation theory is part of the study of (mathematical)
groups. Prolog copes surprisingly well with such a geometric
topic.
"Building User Interfaces with Flavours",
Chris Price,
Department of Computer Science, University College of Wales. (30 mins)
Object-oriented user-interface design, using Poplog's OO flavours
package and window manager.
"TPM - a graphical Prolog debugger",
Dick Broughton, Expert Systems Limited. (1 hour)
Poplog may be great for building interfaces, but its debugging
facilities are less than ideal. Dick will show how a debugger should
be designed: with TPM, you can display Prolog proof trees as
trees, rewind and fast forward execution, zoom in and out,
watch the "cut" prune branches, and generally do everything you
can't do with 'spy'.
"Processing of Road Accident Data",
Jiashu Wu, UCL Transport Studies. (30 mins)
UCL use Poplog for an EMYCIN-based expert system which advises
on accident blackspots, taking 'raw' accident data from
incident reports. They like Poplog because it's an "open
system": its jobs include fuzzy matching, stats, and handling very
big databases.
"Faust - an online fault-diagnosis system",
David Cockburn, Electricity Research and Development Centre. (30 mins)
(to be confirmed)
"Design for testability",
Lawrence Smith, SD Scicon. (30 mins)
(to be confirmed)
A system for advising the users of CAD packages on loopholes in
testability.
Something on the future of Poplog
Integral Solutions. (1 hour)
(details awaited)
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And this is the provisional timetable:
Accomodation is provided in Keble College, Parks Road, Oxford. Luggage
can be left there from mid-day on the 17th.
The conference itself will be in the Department of Experimental
Psychology, South Parks Road.
July 17th
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Registration and coffee: 11:00 - 12:30
Lunch: 12:30 - 2:00
Talks: 2:00 - 3:30
Tea: 3:30 - 4:00
Talks: 4:00 - 6:00
(Depart for Keble).
Keble bar opens from 6 to 11 pm.
Dinner starts at 7.
July 18th
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Talks: 9:00 - 10:30
Coffee: 10:30 - 11:00
Talks: 11:00 - 1:00
Lunch: 1:00 - 2:00
Talks: 2:00 - 3:30
Tea: 3:30 - 4:00