Archive-name: ai-faq/part1 Last-Modified: Fri Mar 12 12:36:34 1993 by Mark Kantrowitz Version: 1.4 ;;; **************************************************************** ;;; Answers to Questions about Artificial Intelligence ************* ;;; **************************************************************** ;;; Written by Mark Kantrowitz ;;; ai-faq-1.text -- 47389 bytes If you think of questions that are appropriate for this FAQ, or would like to improve an answer, please send email to mkant+ai-faq@cs.cmu.edu. *** Topics Covered: Part 1: [1-0] What is the purpose of this newsgroup? [1-1] AI-related Associations and Journals [1-4] What are the rules for the game of "Life"? [1-5] What AI competitions exist? [1-8] Commercial AI products. [1-9] Glossary of AI terms. [1-10] What are the top schools in AI? [1-11] How can I get the email address for Joe or Jill Researcher? Part 2 (AI-related Newsgroups and Mailing Lists): List of all known AI-related newsgroups, mailing lists, and electronic bulletin board systems. Part 3 (Bibliography): Bibliography of introductory texts, overviews and references Addresses and phone numbers for major AI publishers Part 4 (FTP Resources): [4-0] General Information about FTP Resources for AI [4-1] FTP Repositories [4-2] FTP and Other Resources [4-3] AI Bibliographies available by FTP [4-4] AI Technical Reports available by FTP [4-5] Where can I get a machine readable dictionary, thesaurus, and other text corpora? [4-6] List of Smalltalk implementations. Search for [#] to get to question number # quickly. *** Recent changes: ;;; 3-FEB-93 mk New mailing list, robot-boards@oberon.com. ;;; 3-FEB-93 mk Added SCS and GASSY to 3-2, Genetic Algorithms, ;;; and VFSR to Simulated Annealing. ;;; 5-FEB-93 mk Added FuzzyNet (Aptronix) email server to 3-1. ;;; 25-FEB-93 mk Added YAPS entry to commercial products section. ;;; 10-MAR-93 mk Added entry on new GA journal, Evolutionary Computing. ;;; 11-MAR-93 mk Added Gordon Bell competition. 3 new cognitive ;;; science/psychology mailing lists. ;;; 12-MAR-93 mk Part 1 was too big, so split out mailing lists and bboards ;;; into their own part, and renumbered all the parts. ;;; 12-MAR-93 mk Added Simderella entry to part 4. *** Introduction: Certain questions and topics come up frequently in the various network discussion groups devoted to and related to Artificial Intelligence (AI). This file/article is an attempt to gather these questions and their answers into a convenient reference for AI researchers. It is posted on a monthly basis. The hope is that this will cut down on the user time and network bandwidth used to post, read and respond to the same questions over and over, as well as providing education by answering questions some readers may not even have thought to ask. The latest version of this file is available via anonymous FTP from CMU: To obtain the file from CMU, connect by anonymous ftp to any CMU CS machine (e.g., ftp.cs.cmu.edu [128.2.206.173]), using username "anonymous" and password "name@host". The files ai-faq-1.text, ai-faq-2.text, ai-faq-3.text, and ai-faq-4.text are located in the directory /afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mkant/Public/AI/ [Note: You must cd to this directory in one atomic operation, as some of the superior directories on the path are protected from access by anonymous ftp.] If your site runs the Andrew File System, you can just cp the file directly without bothering with FTP. The FAQ postings are also archived in the periodic posting archive on rtfm.mit.edu [18.172.1.27]. Look in the anonymous ftp directory /pub/usenet/news.answers/ in the subdirectory ai-faq/. If you do not have anonymous ftp access, you can access the archive by mail server as well. Send an E-mail message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with "help" and "index" in the body on separate lines for more information. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [1-0] What is the purpose of this newsgroup? The newsgroup comp.ai exists for general discussion of topics related to Artificial Intelligence. For example, possible topics can include (but are not necessarily limited to): announcements of AI books and products discussion of AI programs and tools questions about AI techniques problems implementing an AI technique Postings should be of general interest to the AI community. See also part 2 of the FAQ for a list of other more specialized discussion lists. We've tried to minimize the overlap with the FAQ postings to the comp.lang.lisp, comp.lang.prolog and comp.ai.neural-nets newsgroups, so if you don't find what you're looking for here, we suggest you try the FAQs for those newsgroups. These FAQs should be available by anonymous ftp from rtfm.mit.edu (18.172.1.27) in subdirectories of /pub/usenet/ or by sending a mail message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with subject "help". The Lisp FAQ is also available by anonymous ftp from the same ftp location as the AI FAQ and from ftp.think.com:/public/think/lisp/. Information about Prolog may be obtained from two sources: The Prolog FAQ, which is posted twice a month to the newsgroup comp.lang.prolog by Jamie Andrews , and the Prolog Resource Guide, which is posted to the newsgroup comp.lang.prolog once a month, and is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.cmu.edu [128.2.206.173] as the file /afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mkant/Public/AI/prolog-resource-guide.txt. The Robotics FAQ is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.cmu.edu [128.2.206.173] in the directory /user/nivek/robotics-faq as the files part1 and part2. To obtain a copy by email, send a message to mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu containing the following lines: send usenet/news.answers/robotics-faq/part1 send usenet/news.answers/robotics-faq/part2 On UUCP, it is available at uunet!/archive/usenet/news.answers/robotics-faq/ as the files part1.Z and part2.Z (or by ftp from ftp.uu.net [137.39.1.9] in /archive/usenet/news.answers/robotics-faq/). Information about object-oriented programming can be obtained in the newsgroups comp.object, comp.lang.clos, and comp.lang.smalltalk. Information about object-oriented databases can be obtained in the survey compiled by Stewart Clamen, which may be found either in the comp.object FAQ posting or in byron.sp.cs.cmu.edu:clamen/evolution-summary ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [1-1] AI-related Associations and Journals Associations: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AAAI) AAAI, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025. 415-328-3123, info@aaai.org, membership@aaai.org Membership includes AI Magazine: $40 regular, $20 student (US/Canadian) $65 regular, $45 student (Foreign) AAAI has several special interest groups (SIGs), including one on manufacturing and one on medicine. ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY (ACM) ACM, 1515 Broadway, New York, NY 10036. Member Services, 11 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036. 212-869-7440. Fax 212-944-1318. Email: acmhelp@acmvm.bitnet. $75 regular, $22 student (includes Communications of the ACM) $15 ($8 students) extra for SIGART membership (gets Sigart Bulletin) $12 ($7 students) extra for Lisp Pointers. $15 ($10 students) extra for Computing Surveys $34 ($29 students) extra for Computing Reviews INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERS (IAKE) IAKE, 11820 Parklawn Drive, Suite 302, Rockville, MD 20852. 301-231-7826 $65 regular, $30 students. ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (ACL) Natural language processing research and applications. Members receive a free copy of the journal Computational Linguistics, ISSN 0891-2017. Regular membership $25 ($15 students), $10 extra for first class/air postage in North America, $20 elsewhere. For more information write to Dr. Donald E. Walker (ACL), Bellcore, MRE 2A379, 445 South Street, Box 1910, Morristown, NJ 07960-1910, USA, call 201-829-4312 or send email to walker@flash.bellcore.com. Institutions must subscribe to the journal through MIT Press Journals, 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, 616-253-2889. INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS (IEEE) IEEE Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, PO Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855. 1-800-678-IEEE, 201-981-0060 IEEE membership is $95 regular ($23 students) For membership in the IEEE Computer Society, add $22. $20 for IEEE Expert (Intelligent Systems and their Applications) $12 for Transactions on Neural Networks $12 for Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics $15 for Transactions on Robotics and Automation $19 for Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering $24 for Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF APPLIED INTELLIGENCE (ISAI) Membership includes a journal subscription. To apply contact forsyth@fencer.cis.dsto.gov.au. Working groups include CIM -- Learning in Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Automatic Failure Diagnostics, Production Management, Finance, Building Architecture, Scheduling and Planning. COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY Membership: $50 individuals, $25 student. Add $15 overseas postage. Members receive a copy of the journal Cognitive Science without additional charge. Write to Alan Lesgold, Secretary/Treasurer, Cognitive Science Society, LRDC, University of Pittsburgh, 3939 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, fax 1-412-624-9149, email al+@pitt.edu. INTERNATIONAL FUZZY SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION (IFSA) Membership $180, includes a subscription to the International Journal of Fuzzy Sets and Systems, ISSN 0165-0114. Write to Prof. Philippe Smets, University of Brussels, IRIDIA, 50 av. F. Roosevelt, CP 194/6, 1050 Brussels, Belgium. SOCIETY FOR MACHINES AND MENTALITY James H. Moor, Treasurer, Society for Machines and Mentality, Department of Philosophy, Dartmouth College, 6035 Thornton Hall, Hanover, NH 03755-3592 U.S.A. 603-646-2155. Email: James.H.Moor@Dartmouth.edu $5 Membership only $50 Membership with subscription to _Minds and Machines_ CSCSI (Canadian AI Society) c/o CIPS, 430 King Street West, Suite 205, Toronto, Ontario M5V 1L5 416-593-4040 JSAI (Japanese Association for Artificial Intelligence) OS Bldg. Suite #402 4-7 Tsukudo-cho, Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 162 Japan Phone: +81-3-5261-3401 Telfax: +81-3-5261-3402 INNS (International Neural Network Society) Membership is $55/year for non-students and $45/year for students, and includes a subscription to "Neural Networks", the official journal of the society. INNS Membership, P.O. Box 491166, Ft. Washington, MD 20749 ISSNNets (International Student Society for Neural Networks) Membership is $5 per year. ISSNNet, Inc., P.O. Box 15661, Boston, MA 02215 See also comp.org.issnnet. JNNS (Japanese Neural Network Society) Department of Engineering, Tamagawa University, 6-1-1, Tamagawa Gakuen, Machida City, Tokyo, 194 JAPAN Phone: +81 427 28 3457 Fax: +81 427 28 3597 AIIA (Artificial Intelligence Italian Association) c/o Fondazione Ugo Borboni, Roma - Italy Contact: Oliviero Stock Tel: +39 6 54803428 Fax: +39 6 54804405 Newsletters: The Computists' Communique is a weekly online newsletter for AI/IS/CS scientists. It covers research and funding news; career, consulting, and entrepreneurial issues; AI-related job postings and journal calls; FTPable & other resource leads; market trends; analysis and discussion. The Communique serves members of Computists International, a professional mutual-aid society. Membership in Computists International runs $135 for new professional members, $55 for students and the unemployed. There is a 25% discount for Canada, Western Europe, the UK, Japan, and Australia; other countries and territories outside the U.S. get a 50% discount. For more information, contact Dr. Kenneth I. Laws (laws@ai.sri.com), 415-493-7390, 4064 Sutherland Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94303. Note: Some Journals are listed with the publishing organization above. Journals -- General: JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0824-7935 Basil Blackwell Publishers, Journal Subscription Department, 3 Cambridge Centre, Cambridge, MA 02142 or call 1-800-835-6770. Blackwell Publishers, 108 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1JF, England. Individual subscriptions are $85 in North America and $100 in the rest of the world. Institutional subscriptions are $175 and $190, respectively. A reduced rate of $40 is available to members of the Canadian Information Processing Society. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REVIEW (Survey and Tutorial Journal) Kluwer Academic Publishers, 101 Philip Drive, Norwell, MA 02061, 617-871-6600, fax 617-871-6528. PO Box 358, Accord Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358. Email: kluwer@world.std.com The institutional subscription rate is $130 per volume (4 issues). ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Published 18 times annually. ISSN 0004-3702. $80 individuals (must be a member of one of the major AI societies). To order in the US, write to AAAI, AI Journal, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025-3496, or to Elsevier Science Publishing, 655 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10017, 212-633-3827. Outside the US, contact Elsevier Science Publishers, Attn: Ursula van Dijk, PO Box 103, 1000 AC Amsterdam, The Netherlands, or call +31-20-5862-608. COGNITIVE SCIENCE Ablex Publishing Company, 355 Chestnut Street, Norwood, NJ 07648 201-767-8450, fax 201-767-6717 $50 individual, $125 institution. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (JETAI) Annual subscription, 1992/3, $163; personal subscription, $82. To order in the US, write to Taylor and Francis, Inc., 1900 Frost Road, Suite 101, Bristol, PA 19007-1598. Or contact the home office: Taylor and Francis Ltd, Rankine Road, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK RG24 0PR (0256) 840366. ISSN 0952-813X SPANG ROBINSON REPORT ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS Published monthly. ISSN 0885-9957. Subscriptions: $405 US & Canada, $455 elsewhere. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158-0012, 212-850-6347, fax 212-850-6088. MINDS AND MACHINES Journal for Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science ISSN 0924-6495 Subscription information and sample copies available from: Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands. In the US, write to Kluwer Academic Publishers, 101 Philip Drive, Norwell, MA 02061. COMPUTERS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLGIENCE I. Plander (ed.) VEDA Publishing House of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Klemenosova 19, 814 30 Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. Published bimonthly, order from: Lange & Springer GmbH, Foller Str.2, P.O.B. 10 16 10, 5000 Koln 1, Germany. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AI TOOLS World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc. 1060 Main Street, River Edge, NJ 07661 Tel: 1-800-227-7562 Organizations -- Robotics Related: For a list of organizations that are robotics related, see the FAQ posting for comp.robotics, maintained by Kevin Dowling . Journals -- Applied AI: APPLIED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0883-9514 Subscriptions: Institutions $176; Individuals $84. Hemisphere Publishing Corp., 1900 Frost Rd., Suite 101, Bristol, PA 19007 215-785-5800, fax 215-785-5515. (in the UK, write to Taylor & Francis Ltd., Rankine Rd., Baskingstoke, Hampshire RG24 0PR, UK, call +44-256-840366, or fax +44-256-479438) APPLIED INTELLIGENCE The International Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, and Complex Problem-Solving Technologies Subscriptions: Institutions $217; Individuals $75. Editor in Chief: Dr. Moonis Ali, Professor of Computer Science, The University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, TN 37388 Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, P.O. Box 358, Accord Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358, . Journals -- Automated Reasoning: JOURNAL OF AUTOMATED REASONING Published 6 times annually. ISSN 0168-7433 Subscriptions: Individuals $131; Institutions $263; AAR members $65. Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands, or Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 358, Accord Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358. Journals -- Engineering: ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Published 6 times annually. Subscriptions: Institutions (1992) 235.00 or approx US$425.00; two year institutional rate (1992/93) 446.50 or approx US$807.50. North America: Pergamon Press Inc., 660 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY 10591-55153, USA. Rest of the World: Pergamon Press Ltd, Headington Hill Hall, Oxford OX3 0BW, England. Tel: Oxford (0865)794141 Journals -- Expert Systems: EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0957-4174. Subscriptions: Institutions L85 ($155), Individuals L45 ($72). Pergamon Press Inc., 660 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY 10591-5153, email PPI@pergamon.com, or Pergamon Press Ltd., Headington Hill Hall, Oxford OX3 0BW, England. EXPERT SYSTEMS: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0266-4720. Subscriptions: L85 ($110) Learned Information Ltd., Woodside, Hinksey Hill, Oxford OX1 5AU, UK. Tel: +44 (0)865-730275 Fax: +44 (0)085-736354 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERT SYSTEMS Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0894-9077. Subscriptions: Institutions $135; Individuals $75. Outside the US add $10 for surface mail and $20 for airmail. JAI Press Inc., 55 Old Post Road -- No. 2, PO Box 1678, Greenwich, CT 06836-1678. Journals -- Genetic Algorithms: EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION Published 4 times annually, beginning April/May 1993. 100 pages per issue, 7x10. ISSN 1063-6550 Editor-in-chief: Kenneth De Jong Subscription Rates: Individuals $45 ($63.13 Canada, $59 elsewhere), Institutions $120.00 ($143.38 Canada, $134.00 elsewhere), and Students/Retired $30.00 ($47.08 Canada, $44.00 elsewhere). MIT Press Journals, 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1399, 617-253-2889, fax 617-258-6779, E-mail hiscox@mitvma.mit.edu. Journals -- Machine Learning: MACHINE LEARNING Published 8 times annually. ISSN 0885-6125 Subscriptions: Institutions $301; Individuals $140. (AAAI Individual Members $88) Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands, or Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 358, Accord Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358. Journals -- NLP/Speech/MT: COMPUTER SPEECH AND LANGUAGE Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0885-2308. Subscriptions: Institutions $136, Individuals $58. Academic Press Ltd., 24-28 Oval Road, London NW1, England. MACHINE TRANSLATION Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0922-6567. Subscriptions: Institutions $141 plus $16 postage; Individuals $55 (members of ACL $46). Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands, or Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 358, Accord Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358. Journals -- Neural Nets/Connectionism: CONNECTION SCIENCE Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0954-0091. Subscriptions: Individual $82, Institution $184, Institution (UK) 74 pounds Carfax Publishing Company, PO Box 25, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3UE, UK. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NEURAL NETWORKS RESEARCH & APPLICATIONS Published quarterly. ISSN 0954-9889. Learned Information Ltd., Woodside, Hinksey Hill, Oxford OX1 5AU, UK. Tel: +44 (0)865-730275 Fax: +44 (0)085-736354 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NEURAL SYSTEMS Published quarterly. ISSN 0129-0657 Subscriptions: Individual $42, Institution $88 (plus $9-$17 for postage) USA: World Scientific Publishing Co., 687 Hartwell Street, Teaneck, NJ 07666, 201-837-8858; Eurpoe: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 73 Lynton Mead, Totteridge, London N20-8DH, England, (01) 4462461; Other: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Farrer Road, P.O. Box 128, Singapore 9128, 2786188. NEURAL COMPUTING AND APPLICATIONS Published quarterly. Official journal of the Neural Computing Applications Forum. Subscriptions: #120 per annum. (Free to NCAF members.) Springer Verlag, Service Center Secaucus, 44 Hartz Way, Secaucus, NJ 07094 Tel: 201-348-4033 Springer-Verlag, Springer House, 8 Alexandra Road, LONDON SW19 7JZ Tel: ..44/0 81 947 1280 Fax: 0 81 947 1274 Spqringer-Verlag, Heidelberger Platz 3, D-1000 BERLIN, Germany Tel: (0)30 8207-1 NEURAL COMPUTATION Published quarterly since 1989. ISSN 0899-7667. MIT Press Journals, 55 Hayward Street Cambridge, MA 02142-9949, 617-253-2889 Subscriptions: Individual $45, Institution $90, Students $35. Add $9 for foreign subscriptions. NEURAL NETWORKS Published 6 times annually. ISSN 0893-6080. Official journal of the International Neural Network Society. Subscriptions: $380 Pergamon Press, Ltd., Headington Hill Hall, Oxford OX3 0BW, UK. Pergamon Press, Inc., 660 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY 10591-5153. Journals -- Pattern Recognition: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PATTERN RECOGNITION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Annual subscription, 1992/3, $340; individual subscription, $138. Add $34 for airmail. Published 5 times a year by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Farrer Road, PO Box 128, Singapore 9128. (In the US, write to World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc., River Edge, NJ 07661; in Europe to World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc., Totteridge, London N20 8DH, England.) PATTERN RECOGNITION Journal of the Pattern Recognition Society. Members receive the journal free of charge as part of their membership in the Society. Institutions may subscribe for $845. Pergamon Press, Ltd., Headington Hill Hall, Oxford OX3 0BW, UK. Pergamon Press, Inc., 660 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY 10591-5153. PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS Published 12 times annually. ISSN 0167-8655. Official publication of the International Association for Pattern Recognition. Subscriptions: $462 Institutions. Elsevier Science Publishing, 655 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10017, 212-633-3827. Outside the US, contact Elsevier Science Publishers, Attn: Ursula van Dijk, PO Box 103, 1000 AC Amsterdam, The Netherlands, or call +31-20-5862-608. Journals -- Robotics: INDUSTRIAL ROBOT ISSN 0143-991X Published quarterly. $145/year MCB University Press Limited, 62 Toller Lane, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England BD8 9BY, (44) 274-499821, fax (44) 274-547143. In the US, write to MCB University Press Limited, PO Box 10812, Birmingham, AL 35201-0812, 1-800-633-4931 (1-205-995-1567), fax 1-205-995-1588. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0826-8185 Subscriptions: $165 US or 313.50 SFr. ($12 US or 22.80 SFr postage and handling). A special rate is available to members of IASTED. Write to ACTA Press, PO Box 354, CH-8053, Zurich, Switzerland or ACTA Press, PO Box 2481, Anaheim, CA 92814. IASTED is the International Association of Science and Technology for Development. Individual memberships are $60 US or $120 SFr and corporate memberships $100 US or $200.00 SFr. Members receive a complimentary subscription to the journal of their choice; the annual cost of additional journals for members is $20US/$40SFr per journal. Write to IASTED, PO Box 25, Station G, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T3A 2G1, or IASTED, PO Box 354, CH-8053, Zurich, Switzerland. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH MIT Press, 28 Carleton Street, Cambridge, MA 02142 Subscriptions: $50/year to individuals JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT & ROBOTIC SYSTEMS Three issues per volume, $58.50 per volume (individual) Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands. In the US write to Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 358, Accord Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358. ROBOTICS TODAY Society of Manufacturing Engineers, One SME Drive, PO Box 930, Dearborn, MI 48121. 313-271-1500 ROBOTICS WORLD Published quarterly. Communication Channels, 6255 Barfield Road, Atlanta, GA 30328 404-256-9800 A magazine of flexible automation for the end-user. They also publish the Robotics World Directory for $49.95 ROBOT (Japanese) Industrial Robots and Application Systems Published bimonthly. Japan Industrial Robot Association (JIRA) Kikai-Shinko Building, 3-5-8, Shiba-Kohen, Mina To-ku, Tokyo, Japan Tokyo (03) 3434-2919, fax (03) 3578-1404 ROBOTICA International Journal of Information, Education and Research in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Published quarterly, US $179/year. Cambridge University Press, The Edinburgh Building, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK. In the US write to Cambridge University Press, Journals Department, 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211. Journals -- User Modeling: USER MODELING AND USER-ADAPTED INTERACTION 4 issues per annum, ISSN 0924-1868, $153.50 p.a. ($50 for individuals) Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Journals -- Virtual Reality: PRESENCE Subscriptions: $50 individual, $120 institutions, $40 students/retired (higher rates for Canada and overseas) MIT Press Journals 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1399 617-253-2889, fax 617-258-6779 hiscox@mitvma.mit.edu Journals -- Vision: MACHINE VISION AND APPLICATIONS Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0932-8092. Subscriptions: Institutions $106 (plus $11 p&h); Individuals $54 (incl p&h). Springer-Verlag New York Inc., Journal Fulfillment Services, 44 Hartz Way, Secaucus, NJ 07094, 1-800-SPRINGER. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER VISION Published 6 times annually. ISSN 0920-5691. Subscriptions: Institutions $229; Individuals $115. Add $8 for airmail. Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands, or Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 358, Accord Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358. Other Journals and Magzines: If you have the subscription information for the following, please send a message with that information to mkant+ai-faq@cs.cmu.edu. Journals: Behavioral and Brain Sciences Brain and Cognition Brain and Language Cognition Cognition and Brain Theory Cognitive Psychology Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing Human Intelligence IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Sets and Systems ? International Journal of Man-Machine Studies Journal of the Association for the Study of Perception Journal of Intelligent Systems Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems Journal of Logic Programming Journal of Symbolic Computing New Generation Computing (logic programming) Speech Technology Magazines: AISB Newsletter Annual Review in Automatic Programming Artificial Intelligence Report IEEE Control Systems Magazine (often has articles about NNs and fuzzy systems) Robotics Age ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [1-4] What are the rules for the game of "Life"? Cellular Automata, of which Life is an example, were suggested by Stanislaw Ulam in the 1940s, and first formalized by von Neumann. Conway's "Game of Life" was popularized in Martin Gardner's mathematical games column in the October 1970 and February 1971 issues of Scientific American. (Shorter notes on life are alse given in the column in each month from October 1970 to April 1971, and well as November 1971, January 1972, and December 1972.) There's also quite a bit on the game in "The Recursive Universe", by William Poundstone, Oxford University Press, 1987, 252 pages. The rules for the game of life are quite simple. The game board is a rectangular cell array, with each cell either empty or filled. At each tick of the clock, we generate the next generation by the following rules: if a cell is empty, fill it if 3 of its neighbors are filled (otherwise leave it empty) if a cell is filled, it dies of loneliness if it has 1 or fewer neighbors continues to live if it has 2 or 3 neighbors dies of overcrowding if it has more than 3 neighbors Neighbors include the cells on the diagonals. Some implementations use a torus-based array (edges joined top-to-bottom and left-to-right) for computing neighbors. For example, a row of 3 filled cells will become a column of 3 filled cells in the next generation. The R pentomino is an interesting pattern: xx xx x Try it with other patterns of 5 cells initially occupied. If you record the ages of cells, and map the ages to colors, you can get a variety of beautiful images. When implementing Life, be sure to maintain separate arrays for the old and new generation. Updating the array in place will not work correctly. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [1-5] What AI competitions exist? The Loebner Prize, based on a fund of over $100,000 established by New York businessman Hugh G. Loebner, is awarded annually for the computer program that best emulates natural human behavior. During the contest, a panel of independent judges attempts to determine whether the responses on a computer terminal are being produced by a computer or a person, along the lines of the Turing Test. The designers of the best program each year win a cash award and a medal. If a program passes the test in all its particulars, then the entire fund will be paid to the program's designer and the fund abolished. For further information about the Loebner Prize, write Dr. Robert Epstein, Executive Director, Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, 11 Waterhouse Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, or call 617-491-9020. The BEAM Robot Olympics is a robot exhibition/competition started in 1991. For more information about the competition, write to BEAM Robot Olympics, c/o: Mark W. Tilden, MFCF, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L-3G1, 519-885-1211 x2454, mwtilden@watmath.uwaterloo.ca. The Gordon Bell Prize competition recognizes outstanding achievements in the application of parallel processing to practical scientific and engineering problems. Entries are considered in performance, price/performance, compiler parallelization and speedup categories, and a total of $3,000 will be awarded. The prizes are sponsored by Gordon Bell, a former National Science Foundation division director who is now an independent consultant. Contestants should send a three- or four-page executive summary to 1993 Gordon Bell Prize, c/o Marilyn Potes, IEEE Computer Society, 10662 Los Vaqueros Cir., PO Box 3014, Los Alamitos, CA 90720-1264, before May 31, 1993. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [1-8] Commercial AI products. See the Robotics FAQ for information on Robotics manufacturers. GBB, generic blackboard framework: provides: -- A high-performance blackboard database compiler and runtime library, which support pattern-based, multidimensional range-searching algorithms for efficient proximity-based retrieval of blackboard objects -- KS representation languages -- Generic control shells and agenda-management utilities -- Interactive, graphic displays for monitoring and examining blackboard and control components These components provide the infrastructure needed to build blackboard-based applications. GBB is available for DOS/Windows, Mac, Unix workstations (Sun, HP/Apollo, IBM, DEC, Silicon Graphics), Symbolics and TI Explorer Lisp machines. (GBB is a significantly enhanced, commercial version of the UMass GBB research framework, available via FTP as described in FAQ, part 3.) NetGBB, distributed extension to GBB: provides to GBB the communication and coordination facilities needed to build heterogenous distributed blackboard applications. For more information write to Blackboard Technology Group, Inc., 401 Main Street, Amherst, MA 01002, call 413-256-8990, or fax 413-256-3179. To be added to the mailing lists, send mail to gbb-user-request@bn.cs.umass.edu. There are two mailing lists, gbb-user (moderated) and gbb-users (unmoderated). RAL (Rule-extended Algorithmic Language) is a C-based RETE (OPS83) implementation that allows one to seamlessly add rules and objects to C programs. It runs on Apollo, Sony News, AT&T 3B series, Aviion, DecStation, HP9000, RS/6000, Sun3, Sparc, Pyramid, Stratus, Unix System V 386 machines, VAX, microVAX (VMS) and DOS. Production Systems Technologies was founded by Charles Forgy, the original inventor of the RETE algorithm. For further information, write to Production Systems Technologies, Inc., 5001 Baum Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, call 412-683-4000 or fax 412-683-6347. Stiquito is a small (3cm H x 7cm W x 6cm L), simple (32 parts) and inexpensive (< $30) nitinol-propelled hexapod robot developed at the Indiana University (Bloomington) Robotics Laboratory. Its legs are propelled by nitnol actuator wires. Each leg has one degree of freedom. The robot walks up to 10 centimeters per minute and can carry a 9-volt cell, a MOSIS "tiny chip" and power transistors to drive the nitinol actuator wires. Nitinol wire (aka BioMetal, Flexinol), is a nickel-titanium alloy which exerts useful force as it is heated by passing a current through it. IUCS Technical Report 363a describes Stiquito's construction and is available by anonymous ftp from cs.indiana.edu:/pub/stiquito (129.79.254.191) as are many other related files. The tech report is also available by US mail for $5 (checks or money orders should be made payable to "Indiana University") from Computer Science Department, Attn: TR 363a 215, Lindley Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405. A kit containing all the materials needed to construct a simple version of Stiquito and its controller is available for an extra $10 from the above address (use attn line "Stiquito Kit"). To receive a video showing the assembly of Stiquito, include an additional $10 and add "Video" to the "Attn:" line. Anyone may build and use Stiquitos in any quantity for educational or research purposes, but Indiana University reserves all rights to commercial applications. Questions about Stiquito should be sent to Prof. Jonathan W. Mills . To join the Stiquito mailing list run by Jon Blow of UC/Berkeley, send mail to stiquito-request@xcf.berkeley.edu. Togai InfraLogic, Inc. (TIL) is a supplier of fuzzy logic and fuzzy expert system software and hardware. For more information, write to Togai InfraLogic, Inc., 5 Vanderbilt, Irvine, CA 92718, call +1 714 975 8522, fax +1 714 975 8524, or send email to info@til.com or til!info. TIL also supports an email-server that can be reached at fuzzy-server@til.com or til!fuzzy-server. Send an email message that contains just the word "help" in either the subject line or the message body for more information. A list of products can be obtained by sending a message that contains only the line "send products.txt" to the email-server. For an index of the contents of the server, send a message with the line "send index". YAPS is a tool for building expert systems and other programs that use a rule-based knowledge representation in Lisp. The YAPS library provides a CLOS class and appropriate methods which the programmer may mix into his/her own classes or use directly. Rules and facts about an instance are associated with the instance. Instead of one large knowledgebase with many rules which are hard to debug and maintain, the programmer creates smaller knowledge-bases which are modular and more efficient. The YAPS knowledge-bases can interact with and be controlled by the programmer's other modules, making hybrid systems straightforward. Introduced by Liz Allen at AAAI-83, YAPS is now available on Apple Macintosh, Sun3 and Sun4 (SPARC), DEC VAX under VMS and Ultrix, and 88Open platforms. YAPS runs in most commercial Common Lisps including Allegro CL, Harlequin Lispworks, Lucid CL, IBUKI CL, and Macintosh Common Lisp. YAPS is also available for the TI Explorer and Symbolic Lisp Machines, and a Flavors version is available for Sun3 in Franz Lisp. Other ports are underway -- for price and availability contact College Park Software at 461 W. Loma Alta Dr., Altadena, CA 91001-3841, USA; or by email at info@cps.altadena.ca.us, or call 818-791-9153 (voice) or 818-791-1755 (FAX). The following is from Risks Digest 13.83 -- I have no idea what the software does, but Colby did head up the PARRY project: FEELING HELPLESS ABOUT DEPRESSION? Overcoming Depression 2.0 provides computer based cognitive therapy for depression with therapeutic dialogue in everyday language. Created by Kenneth Mark Colby, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioural Sciences, Emeritus, UCLA. Personal Version ($199), Professional version ($499). Malibu Artificial Intelligence Works, 25307 Malibu Rd, CA 90265. 1-800-497-6889. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [1-9] Glossary of AI terms. This is the start of a simple glossary of short definitions for AI terminology. Strong AI: Claim that computers can be made to actually think, just like human beings do. More precisely, the claim that there exists a class of computer programs, such that any implementation of such a program is really thinking. Weak AI: Claim that computers are important tools in the modeling and simulation of human activity. Case-based Reasoning: Technique whereby "cases" similar to the current problem are retrieved and their "solutions" modified to work on the current problem. Nonlinear Planning: A planning paradigm which does not enforce a total (linear) ordering on the components of a plan. Admissibility: An admissible search algorithm is one that is guaranteed to find an optimal path from the start node to a goal node, if one exists. In A* search, an admissible heuristic is one that never overestimates the distance remaining from the current node to the goal. Fuzzy Logic: In Fuzzy Logic, truth values are real values in the closed interval [0..1]. The definitions of the boolean operators are extended to fit this continuous domain. By avoiding discrete truth-values, Fuzzy Logic avoids some of the problems inherent in either-or judgments and yields natural interpretations of utterances like "very hot". Fuzzy Logic has applications in control theory. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [1-10] What are the top schools in AI? The answer to this question is not intended to be a ranking and should not be interpreted as such. There are several major problems with ratings like the Gourman Report and the US News and World Report. Such rankings are often unsubstantiated and anecdotal, their accuracy is questionable, and they do not focus on the subfields of an area. When selecting a graduate school, students should look for schools which not only have excellent programs in their general area of research but also at least one faculty member whose research interests mesh well with the student's. Accordingly, we've broken down this list according to topic, and sorted the schools within each topic in ALPHABETICAL ORDER. For a school to be added to a topic area, there should at least two faculty actively conducting research in that area and the school should have a "good" reputation in that area. Exceptions are made for schools which only have one faculty member in the area, but that professor is a "leader" of the area, or for fields where the total number of people working in the area is small in the first place. The general idea behind these criteria is to ensure that a school has enough activity in the area that a student who considers one of these schools won't be disappointed if one of the faculty in that area is on sabbatical or isn't taking students. The best way for students to discover which schools are good in a field is to ask professors (and graduate students) in their undergraduate school for suggestions on where to apply. Reading the research journals in the field is another good method (see question [1-1]). A list of email addresses for CS departments is posted once a month to the newsgroup soc.college.gradinfo. NOTE THAT THIS LIST IS PRELIMINARY AND BY NO MEANS COMPLETE. Please feel free to suggest schools that are particularly strong in any of these areas, or to suggest new areas to be listed. Schools with excellent programs in most fields: Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) MIT Stanford Georgia Tech Imperial College Indiana Maryland Rutgers Sussex University Toronto UCLA Univ. of Edinburgh Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst Univ. of Michigan Univ. of Rochester Univ. of Southern California & USC/Information Sciences Institute Yale AI and Medicine: Stanford MIT AI and Legal Reasoning: Imperial College Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst Artificial Life: UCLA Automated Deduction/Theorem Proving: Imperial College Stanford Univ. of Edinburgh Univ. of Oregon Univ. of Texas/Austin Case-Based Reasoning: Chicago Georgia Tech Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst Cognitive Modelling: Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Georgia Tech Indiana Univ. of Michigan Connectionism/Neural Networks: Boston University, Cognitive and Neural Systems Department (ART networks) Brown University CalTech Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Indiana MIT Ohio State Univ. Stanford Syracuse University Toronto UC/Irvine UC/San Diego UCLA UNC/Chapel Hill Univ. of Colorado/Boulder Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst Univ. of Pennsylvania Univ. of Southern California & USC/Information Sciences Institute Decision Theory and AI: Berkeley MIT Stanford Univ. of Michigan Univ. of Washington Distributed AI: Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst Univ. of Michigan Fuzzy Logic: Berkeley Genetic Algorithms: George Mason Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Univ. of Michigan Integrated AI Architectures: Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Stanford Univ. of Michigan Knowledge Representation: Stanford Univ. of Oregon Logic Programming and Logic-based AI: Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Imperial College Stanford UCLA Univ. of Edinburgh Univ. of Melbourne Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Univ. of Oregon Univ. of Pennsylvania Machine Discovery: Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Machine Learning: Brown University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Georgia Tech Johns Hopkins MIT UCI Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst Univ. of Michigan Univ. of Southern California & USC/Information Sciences Institute Natural Language, Speech: Brown Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Columbia Georgia Tech ISI Indiana MIT Penn Stanford Toronto UCLA Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst Univ. of Rochester Univ. of Southern California & USC/Information Sciences Institute Waterloo (stylistics, MT, discourse) Nonmonotonic Reasoning: Imperial College Stanford UCLA Univ. of Oregon Toronto Philosophy of AI: MIT Berkeley Planning: Brown University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Imperial College MIT Stanford Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst Univ. of Oregon Univ. of Rochester Univ. of Washington/Seattle Waterloo Probabilistic Reasoning: Brown University Oregon State University Stanford UCLA Univ. of Rochester Production Systems/Expert Systems: Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Stanford Qualitative Physics and Model Based Reasoning: Northwestern ILS (Forbus) Univ. of Oregon Univ. of Texas Univ. of Washington Robotics: Bristol Polytechnic, UK Brown California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Georgia Tech Harvard Hull University, UK MIT Naval Postgraduate School New York University (NYU) Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences North Carolina State Univerisity/Raleigh (NCSU) Oxford Purdue Reading University, UK Rennsalear Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Salford University, UK Stanford Swiss Federal Institute of Technology UC/Berkeley Univ. of Alberta Univ. of Kansas Univ. of Kentucky Univ. of Maryland Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst Univ. of Michigan Univ. of Paris INRIA Univ. of Pennsylvania Univ. of Southern California & USC/Information Sciences Institute Univ. of Utah Univ. of Wisconsin Yale Search: UCLA Univ. of Oregon Temporal Reasoning: Imperial College Virtual Reality: Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Columbia Florida Institute of Technology MIT Media Lab Naval Postgraduate School UVA Univ. North Carolina/Chapel Hill (UNC) Vision: Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Columbia Johns Hopkins MIT UCLA Univ. of Maryland Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst Univ. of Rochester Univ. of Southern California & USC/Information Sciences Institute ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [1-11] How can I get the email address for Joe or Jill Researcher? The AAAI membership directory is updated annually and contains addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses for many members of AAAI and other AI societies. Contact info@aaai.org for information on getting a copy of the directory (you should get a free copy if you are a member of one of the listed societies). See also the Email Address FAQ posting to the newsgroups soc.college and soc.net-people. The Artificial Intelligence and Molecular Biology Researchers database contains names, institutions, addresses, phone, fax, email, research interests and other related information about more than 200 researchers worldwide. The database is available via anonymous ftp from the host lhc.nlm.nih.gov in the directory /pub/aimb-db. There are computer- and human- readable versions available. Get the README file for more information or send email to Larry Hunter, . ---------------------------------------------------------------- ;;; *EOF* Archive-name: ai-faq/part2 Last-Modified: Fri Mar 12 12:36:38 1993 by Mark Kantrowitz Version: 1.4 ;;; **************************************************************** ;;; Answers to Questions about Artificial Intelligence ************* ;;; **************************************************************** ;;; Written by Mark Kantrowitz ;;; ai-faq-2.text -- 29152 bytes Part 2 (AI-related Newsgroups and Mailing Lists): List of all known AI-related newsgroups, mailing lists, and electronic bulletin board systems. Outline: ---------------- [0] How to Subscribe to a Mailing List [1] AI-related Newsgroups [2] AI Research in a particular country [3] Dial-up AI-related Bulletin Board Systems ---------------- [4] Artificial Life [5] AI Applications to Human-Computer Interface Design [6] AI in Education [7] Artificial Intelligence and Law [8] AI in Medicine [9] AI for Development [10] Cellular Automata [11] Classification and Clustering [12] Connectionism and Neural Networks [13] Cybernetics and Systems [14] Distributed AI [15] Intelligent Systems for Economics Digest (IE-Digest) [16] Expert Systems in Agriculture [17] Use of Computers in the Fine Arts [18] Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming [19] Knowledge Acquisition [20] Logic Programming, Prolog [21] Machine Learning [22] Natural Language Processing [23] Psychology and Cognitive Science [24] Robot Controller Boards [25] Simulated Annealing [26] Simulation [27] Symbolic Math [28] Vision Research ---------------- Search for [#] to get to question number # quickly. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [0] How to Subscribe to a Mailing List To be added or deleted to any of the mailing lists described in this post, send mail to the -request version of the list except where otherwise noted. This sends mail to the list maintainer, instead of annoying the membership of the entire mailing list. To subscribe to one of the BITNET listserv forums, send mail there which contains a line of the form SUB as the first and only line in the body of the message. To unsubscribe to a ListServ list, send UNSUB or SIGNOFF instead. For Lisp-related mailing lists, see part 4 of the FAQ for the newsgroup comp.lang.lisp. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [1] AI-related Newsgroups Subscribe to these using your newsreader. comp.ai Artificial Intelligence comp.ai.edu AI and Education comp.ai.fuzzy Fuzzy Logic. Archived on the Aptronix FuzzyNet and TIL mail-servers (see [4-1]). comp.ai.genetic Genetic Algorithms comp.ai.neural-nets Neural Nets comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Natural Language and Knowledge Representation (Moderated). comp.robotics Robotics. Archived at the anonymous ftp site wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/comp.robotics/. Read the files AuthorIndex and SubjectIndex first. comp.theory.cell-automata Cellular Automata comp.theory.self-org-sys Self-Organizing Systems comp.simulation Simulation comp.speech Speech related research, including recognition and synthesis. Archived at the anonymous ftp site svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk in the directory comp.speech/archive. sci.math.symbolic Symbolic Math sci.cognitive Cognitive Science comp.ai.philosophy Philosophical Foundations of AI comp.ai.shells Expert System Shells comp.ai.vision Vision Research sci.virtual-worlds Virtual Reality. Also available through the bi-directional gateway, VIRTU-L on LISTSERV@UIUCVMD.BITNET or LISTSERV@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU comp.lang.lisp Common Lisp comp.lang.clos Common Lisp Object System comp.object Object Oriented Programming comp.lang.scheme Scheme comp.lang.lisp.mcl Macintosh Common Lisp comp.lang.lisp.franz Franz Lisp comp.lang.lisp.x XLisp comp.lang.prolog Prolog and Logic Programming comp.lang.pop POPLOG integrated programming language & environment for Lisp, Prolog, ML and Pop11 comp.lang.smalltalk Smalltalk aicom mcvax!swivax!otten@uunet.uu.net International Usenet AI news Of the above newsgroups, the following have FAQ postings: comp.ai, comp.robotics, comp.speech, comp.neural-nets, comp.lang.lisp, comp.lang.scheme, comp.lang.clos, comp.lang.prolog German AI newsgroups: de.sci.ki de.sci.ki.announce de.sci.ki.mod-ki de.sci.ki.discussion ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [2] AI Research in a particular country British AI alvey jws%ib.rl.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Japanese AI fj-ai%etl.jp@relay.cs.net German AI mod-ki%unido.irb@unido.bitnet Mexican AI IAMEX-L on listserv@tecmtyvm.mty.itesm.mx The IAMEX-L list is administrated by the AI Invetigation Center in Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) in Monterrey, N.L. To be added to that list, please contact: pl500368@tecmtyvm.bitnet (Juana Maria Gomez Puertos) pl157961@tecmtyvm.bitnet (Fernando Careaga Sanchez) The newsgroup de.sci.ki.discussion is the German equivalent of comp.ai. The newsgroup de.sci.ki.announce is for announcements about AI. The newsgroup de.sci.ki.mod-ki is moderated by Hans-Werner Hein . The newsgroup aus.ai is the (unmoderated) Australian equivalent of comp.ai. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [3] Dial-up AI-related Bulletin Board Systems The primary AI-related dial-up bulletin board systems are: The Interocitor 214-258-1832 (Fido 1:124/2206) V.32bis (14.4kbps) SysOp: Steve Rainwater Hours: 24 Desc: AI CD-ROM submission site, general AI archive. ShadeTree BBS 412-244-9416 (Fido 1:129/124) V.22bis (2400bps) SysOp: Bill Keller Hours: 8:30pm-8:30am only Desc: Oriented toward beginners in the field. C.N.S. BBS 509-62706267 (Fido 1:347/303) USR HST (9600bps) SysOp: Wesley Elsberry Hours: 24 Desc: Best source for neural network related information. Fuzzy Logic Related BBS's: Aptronix FuzzyNet 408-428-1883 N/8/1 1200-19,200 baud The Turning Point 512-219-7828 N/8/1 DS/HST 1200-19,200 baud (LIBRARY) 512-219-7848 N/8/1 DS/HST 1200-19,200 buad Motorola FREEBBS 512-891-3733 E/7/1 1200-9600 baud EDN BBS 617-558-4241 N/8/1 1200-9600 baud Neural Networks Related BBS's: Central Neural System, 509-627-6CNS. Operated by Wesley R. Elsberry; PO Box 1187, Richland, WA 99352; welsberr@sandbox.kenn.wa.us Also available through FidoNet. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [4] Artificial Life alife@cognet.ucla.edu The alife mailing list is for communications regarding artificial life, a formative interdisciplinary field involving computer science, the natural sciences, mathematics, medicine and others. Send mail to alife-request@cognet.ucla.edu to be added to the list. See also the UCLA Artificial Life Depository in question [4-0]. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [5] AI Applications to Human-Computer Interface Design AI-CHI All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions, etc., should be sent to wiley!ai-chi-request@LLL-LCC.LLNL.GOV. [This machine seems to be defunct. Anybody knowing the new location of the mailing list should send mail to mkant+ai-faq@cs.cmu.edu.] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [6] AI in Education ai-ed@sun.com (was ai-ed@sumex-aim.stanford.edu) Includes ICAI (intelligent computer aided instruction) and ITS (intelligent tutoring systems). 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The newsletter is sent to the mailing list and to the newsgroup comp.society.development. Send requests to be added to the mailing list to Kathleen King . ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [10] Cellular Automata cellular-automata@think.com (aka ca@think.com) Gatewayed to the newsgroup comp.theory.cell-automata. Archived messages may be found at ftp.think.com in the files: mail/ca.archive* All other requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions, etc., should be sent to cellular-automata-request@think.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [11] Classification and Clustering class-l%sbccvm.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu Mailing list and file server for researchers in classification, clustering, phylogenetic estimation, and related areas of data analysis. 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All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions, etc., should be sent to neuron-request@cattell.psych.upenn.edu Neuron Digest archives are kept in the OSU Neuroprose collection and in cattell.psych.upenn.edu:/pub/Neuron-Digest Users of the Rochester Connectionist Simulator: simulator-users@cs.rochester.edu simulator-bugs@cs.rochester.edu All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions, etc., should be sent to simulator-request@cs.rochester.edu. The simulator is available in cs.rochester.edu:/pub/simulator Users of the Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator: snns@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de To be added to the mailing list, send a message to listserv@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de with subscribe snns in the message body. The simulator is available in ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de:/pub/SNNS/SNNSv2.1.tar.Z [129.69.211.1] RNA: RNA on LISTSERV@UTFSM.BITNET RNA is a Neural Net list in Spanish. RNA es una lista dedicada a todas aquellas personas interesadas en el desarrollo e investigacion en el campo de las Redes de Neuronas Artificiales. El proposito de esta lista es intercambiar informacion, favorecer el encuentro de personas con intereses afines, promover la formacion de grupos de trabajos y servir de apoyo a quienes se integran al area. 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Special interest group on cooperating knowledge based systems: ckbs@cs.keele.ac.uk. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [15] Intelligent Systems for Economics Digest (IE-Digest) IE-list@cs.ucl.ac.uk The IE-digest aims to act as a forum to exchange ideas on using `intelligent' techniques to model economic and financial systems. Calls for papers, paper announcements and queries are welcome. Techniques which were originally developed to model psychological and biological processes are now receiving considerable attention as tools for modelling and understanding economic and financial processes. These techniques, which include neural networks, genetic algorithms and expert systems are now being used in a wide variety of applications including the modelling of economic cycles, modelling of artificial economies, portfolio optimisation and credit evaluation. To be added to the list, send mail to IE-list-request@cs.ucl.ac.uk. An archive of back issues of the digest, as well as papers, bibliographies and software, may be obtained by anonymous ftp from cs.ucl.ac.uk:ie (128.16.5.31). List moderated by Suran Goonatilake, Dept. of Computer Science, University College London, Gower St., London WC1E 6BT, UK, . ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [16] Expert Systems in Agriculture ag-exp-l%ndsuvm1.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu To subscribe to ag-exp-l you should send a message to the internet address listserv%ndsuvm1.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu The body of the message should consist of: subscribe AG-EXP-L ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [17] Use of Computers in the Fine Arts fineart%ecs.umass.edu@relay.cs.net The FINEART Forum is dedicated to International collaboration between artists and scientists. It is subsidized by the International Society for the Arts, Science, and Technology (ISAST), 2020 Milvia, Berkeley, CA 94704. The purpose of this bulletin board is to disseminate information regarding the use of computers in the Fine Arts. One of the general areas of interest is Art & AI. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [18] Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming Genetic Algorithms Digest: GA-List@AIC.NRL.NAVY.MIL (moderated; digest format) Send subscription requests to the -request form of the list or to gref@aic.nrl.navy.mil. Past copies of the digest are archieved on ftp.aic.nrl.navy.mil in the /pub/galist directory. Some software is also archived there. Discussion of genetic algorithms also appears from time to time in comp.ai.neural-nets and comp.theory.self-org-sys. Genetic Programming: genetic-programming@cs.stanford.edu A mailing list for discussion of Genetic Programming. See Koza's book for details. 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For an explanation of the coding system for items in SCHOLAR, send mail to with the following as the body of the message: Get SCHOLAR COD To retrieve the entire release send mail to with the folowing as the body of the message: Get AZ Package Speech production and perception: foNETiks foNETiks is a monthly newsletter distributed by e-mail. The focus is on speech production, speech perception, speech disorders, automatic speech recognition and speech synthesis. It carries job advertisements, notices of conferences, and other news of general interest to phoneticians and speech scientists. The current editors are Linda Shockey and Gerry Docherty. 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Part 3 (FTP Resources): [3-0] General Information about FTP Resources for AI [3-1] FTP Repositories [3-2] FTP and Other Resources [3-3] AI Bibliographies available by FTP [3-4] AI Technical Reports available by FTP Search for [#] to get to question number # quickly. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [3-0] General Information about FTP Resources for AI In general, see the Lisp FAQ for Lisp-related software and the Prolog Resource Guide and the Prolog FAQ for Prolog-related software. If a Lisp-based or Prolog-based system is listed here, only the ftp site and directory will be listed; for a more detailed description, see the Lisp FAQ and the Prolog Resource Guide. For information on obtaining the Lisp FAQ or the Prolog Resource Guide see [1-0]. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [3-1] FTP Repositories Ada Repository: The Ada Repository on wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (mailing list ada-sw@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil) contains a directory of AI programs in PD2:*.*. A somewhat easier to access copy of the archives is available as wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/ada/ai. UCLA Artificial Life Depository: ftp.cognet.ucla.edu (128.97.50.19):~ftp/pub/alife Repository of papers, articles, tech reports, software and other items of interest to Artificial Life researchers. It includes an archive of past postings to the alife mailing list, alife@cognet.ucla.edu (send mail to alife-request@cognet.ucla.edu to be added to the list). (Other artificial life information is available from santafe.edu in the directory pub/Artificial-Life-III.) Consortium for Lexical Research: clr.nmsu.edu [128.123.1.12] equivalently, lexical.nmsu.edu [128.123.1.12] Archive containing a variety of programs and data files related to natural language processing research, with a particular focus on lexical research. See the file catalog-short for a quick listing of the contents of the archive. Long descriptions are in the info/ subdirectory. Publicly available materials are in the pub/ subdirectory. Materials for paid-up members of the Consortium are in the members-only/ subdirectory. Public materials include the Alvey Natural Language Tools, Sowa's Conceptual Graph parser implemented in YACC by Maurice Pagnucco, a morphological parsing lexicon of English, a phonological rule compiler for PC-KIMMO, C source code for the NIST SGML parser, PC-KIMMO sources, the 1911 Roget Thesaurus, and a variety of word lists (including English, Dutch, and male/female/last names). Comments and questions may be directed to lexical@nmsu.edu. Fuzzy Logic Repositories: ntia.its.bldrdoc.gov:pub/fuzzy contains information concerning fuzzy logic, including bibliographies (bib/), product descriptions and demo versions (com/), machine readable published papers (lit/), miscellaneous information, documents and reports (txt/), and programs, code and compilers (prog/). You may download new items into the new/ subdirectory. If you deposit anything in new/, please inform fuzzy@its.bldrdoc.gov. The repository is maintained by Timothy Butler, tim@its.bldrdoc.gov. The Fuzzy Logic Repository is also accessible through a mail server, rnalib@its.bldrdoc.gov. For help on using the server, send mail to the server with the following line in the body of the message: @@ help Other commands available include index, list, find, send, and credits. Ostfold Regional College in Norway recently started a ftp site for material related to fuzzy logic, ftp.dhhalden.no:fuzzy/. Material to be included in the archive (e.g., papers and code) may be placed in the upload/ directory. Now holds the files from Togai's mail-server, and other files from Timothy Butler's site ntia.its.bldrdoc.gov. It also includes some demo programs. Send email to Asgeir Osterhus, . Togai InfraLogic, Inc. (TIL) also runs a fuzzy logic email server which contains demo versions of some of their software, fuzzy logic bibliographies, conference announcements, a short introduction to fuzzy logic, copies of the company newsletter, and so on. See the entry in the answer to question [1-8] for more information on the company. To get started with the fuzzy logic email server, send a message with NO SUBJECT LINE to fuzzy-server@til.com, containing just the word "help" in the message body. The server will reply with a set of instructions. Please address any comments, questions or requests to either erik@til.com or tanaka@til.com. Most of the contents of the TIL server is mirrored at Tim Butler's fuzzy logic ftp repository at ntia.its.bldrdoc.gov and at Ostfold ftp repository at ftp.dhhalden.no. For more information, write to Togai InfraLogic, Inc., 5 Vanderbilt, Irvine, CA 92718 or call 714-975-8522. UC/Irvine AI/Machine Learning Repository: ics.uci.edu has a variety of AI-related materials, with a special focus on machine learning. The directory /pub/machine-learning-databases contains over 80 benchmark data sets for classifier systems (30mb). Site Librarian: Patrick M. Murphy (ml-repository@ics.uci.edu) Off-Site Assistant: David W. Aha (aha@insight.cs.jhu.edu) Machine Learning: Various programs (e.g., ID3) and publications related to machine learning are available by anonymous ftp from the machine learning group (under Raymond Mooney) at UT-Austin, at cs.utexas.edu:pub/mooney. Subdirectories include ml-course information and homeworks from a graduate course in machine learning taught by Dr. Mooney. Homeworks include "miniatures" of various machine learning systems written in Common Lisp. ml-code Common Lisp code corresponding to the assignments for the course in the ml-course directory. ml-progs More "research-level" versions of inductive classification algorithms and software for automated experiments that generation learning curves that compare several systems. papers Publications producted by the machine learning research group. Funic Neural FTP Archive Site: The Finnish University maintains an archive site containing a large collection of neural network papers and public domain software gathered from FTP sites in the US. The files are available by anonymous ftp from funic.funet.fi:/pub/sci/neural [128.214.6.100]. (Also know as ftp.funet.fi, nic.funet.fi.) See the file 01README for details. A list of mirrored ftp sites is in 04Neural_FTP_Sites. For further information, contact neural-adm@funic.funet.fi or Marko Gronroos (or ). OSU Neuroprose: archive.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/neuroprose [128.146.8.52] This directory contains technical reports as a public service to the connectionist and neural network scientific community which has an organized mailing list (for info: connectionists-request@cs.cmu.edu) NL Software Registry: The Natural Language Software Registry is a catalogue of software implementing core natural language processing techniques, whether available on a commercial or noncommercial basis. Some of the topics listed include speech signal processing, morphological analysis, parsers, and knowledge representation systems. The catalogue is available from the German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Saarbruecken (Germany) by anonymous ftp to ftp.dfki.uni-sb.de:registry/, email to registry@dfki.uni-sb.de, or physical mail to NL Software Registry, Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-W-6600 Saarbruecken, Germany, or by telephone to +49 (681) 303-5282. Miscellaneous AI: Some miscellaneous AI programs may be found on ftp.uu.net:/pub/ai Most are mirrors of programs available at other sites. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [3-2] FTP and Other Resources In addition to programs available free by anonymous ftp, we've included some programs which are available by contacting the authors, and some programs which charge a nominal fee. Artificial Life: Tierra is an artificial life system for studying the evolution of digital organisms. Tierra runs in Unix and MS-DOS. Source code and documentation is available by anonymous ftp at tierra.slhs.udel.edu (128.175.41.34) and life.slhs.udel.edu (128.175.41.33) in the directories almond/, beagle/, doc/, and tierra/. To be added to either the tierra-announce (official announcements only) or tierra-digest (moderated discussion plus announcements) mailing lists, send mail to tierra-request@life.slhs.udel.edu. Send bug reports to tierra-bug@life.slhs.udel.edu. Blackboard Architectures: GBB (PD Version) -- dime.cs.umass.edu:/gbb GEST -- Contact: Susan Coryell Blackboard system. Runs on Symbolics and SUN. Georgia Tech's Generic Expert System Tool (GEST) Available to academic institutions for classroom use. Case-based Reasoning: CL-Protos -- cs.utexas.edu:/pub/porter Contact: Dan Dvorak Ray Bareiss Erik Eilerts Bruce W. Porter MICRO-xxx -- Contact: waander@cs.umd.edu Chess: The SAN Kit chess programming C source toolkit provides common routines for move notation I/O, move generation, move execution, etc. Only search routines and an evaluation function need be added to obtain a working chess program. It is available by anonymous ftp from valkyries.andrew.cmu.edu [128.2.232.4] in the directory pub/chess/misc as the compressed tar file san.tar.Z. Contact Steven J. Edwards, sje@xylos.ma30.bull.com for more information. Expert Systems: FOCL -- ics.uci.edu:pub/SaranWrap/{README,KR-FOCL-ES.cpt.hqx} Contact: pazzani@ics.uci.edu Expert System Shell and Machine Learning Program; Extends Quinlan's FOIL. OPS5 -- ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/afs/cs/user/mkant/Public/Lisp/ops5.tar.Z BABYLON-- gmdzi.gmd.de:gmd/ai-research/Software/ (129.26.8.90) (BinHexed stuffit archive of Babylon) Development environment for expert systems. CLIPS is an OPS-like forward chaining production system written in ANSI C by NASA. The CLIPS inference engine includes truth maintenance, dynamic rule addition, and customizable conflict resolution strategies. CLIPS, including the runtime version, is easily embeddable in other applications. CLIPS runs on IBM PC compatibles, Macintosh, VAX 11/780, Sun 3/260, and HP9000/500. CLIPS is available from COSMIC at a nominal fee for unlimited copies with no royalties. For more information, email service@cossack.cosmic.uga.edu, write COSMIC, University of Georgia, 382 East Broad Street, Athens, GA 30602, call 404-542-3265, or fax 404-542-4807. To subscribe to the CLIPS mailing list, send a message to the list server listserv@cossack.cosmic.uga.edu (128.192.14.4) with message body SUBSCRIBE CLIPS-LIST. An electronic bulletin board containing information regarding CLIPS can be reached 24 hours a day at 713-280-3896 or 713-280-3892. Communications information is 300, 1200, or 2400 baud, no parity, 8 data bits, and 1 stop bit. The CLIPS help desk phone number is 713-280-2233 and email address is stbprod@krakatoa.jsc.nasa.gov. The book "Expert Systems: Principles and Programming" by Joseph Girrantano and Garey Riley comes with an MS-DOS CLIPS interpreter. Frame Systems: FrameWork -- ftp.cs.cmu.edu: /afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mkant/Public/Lisp/framework.lisp Theo -- Contact: Tom.Mitchell@cs.cmu.edu FrameKit -- Contact: Eric.Nyberg@cs.cmu.edu KR -- Contact: Brad.Myers@cs.cmu.edu PARKA -- Contact: spector@cs.umd.edu Frames for the CM PARMENIDES (Frulekit) -- Contact: Peter.Shell@cs.cmu.edu FROBS -- cs.utah.edu:/pub/frobs.tar.Z Contact: Robert Kessler PFC -- linc.cis.upenn.edu: YAK -- Contact: Enrico Franconi Fuzzy Logic: FLIE -- ural.ethz.ch:/robo/flie Contact: vestli@ifr.ethz.ch Fuzzy Logic Inference Engine, Institute of Robotics, ETH. Game Playing: METAGAME is a game-playing workbench for developing and playing metagame programs. It includes a generator for symmetric chess-like games; definitions of chess, checkers, chinese chess, shogi, lose chess, lose checkers, french checkers, and tic tac toe translated into symmetric chess-like games; a legal move generator; and a variety of player programs, from simple through sophisticated. The METAGAME Workbench runs in Quintus or Sictus Prolog. Available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk [128.232.0.56] in users/bdp/metagame.tar.Z. For more information, contact Barney Pell of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. ICOT: Japan's Institute for New Generation Computer Technology (ICOT) has made their software available to the public free of charge. The collection includes a variety of prolog-based programs in symbol processing, knowledge representation, reasoning and problem solving, natural language processing. All programs are available by anonymous ftp from ftp.icot.or.jp. Note that most of the programs are written for the PSI machines, and very few have been ported to Unix-based emulators. For further information, send email to ifs@icot.or.jp, or write to ICOT Free Software Desk, Institute for New Generation Computer Technology, 21st Floor, Mita Kokusai Bldg., 4-28, Mita 1-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108, Japan, fax +81-3-4456-1618. Knowledge Representation: KNOWBEL -- ai.toronto.edu:/pub/kr/{knowbel.tar.Z,manual.txt.tar.Z} Contact: Bryan M. Kramer, Telos temporal/sorted logic system. SB-ONE -- Contact: kobsa@cs.uni-sb.de KL-ONE family KRIS -- Contact: baader@dfki.uni-kl.de KL-ONE family (Symbolics only) BACK -- Contact: peltason@tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de KL-ONE family CLASSIC -- Contact: dlm@research.att.com KL-ONE family MOTEL -- Contact: hustadt@mpi-sb.mpg.de Modal KL-ONE (contains KRIS as a kernel). Implemented in Prolog. FOL GETFOL -- Contact: fausto@irst.it Weyrauch's FOL system SNePS -- Contact: shapiro@cs.buffalo.edu Semantic Nets COLAB/RELFUN -- Contact: boley@informatik.uni-kl.de Logic Programming COLAB/FORWARD -- Contact: hinkelma@dfki.uni-kl.de Logic Programming COLAB/CONTAX -- Contact: meyer@dfki.uni-kl.de Constraint System for Weighted Constraints over Hierarchically Structured Finite Domains. COLAB/TAXON -- Contact: hanschke@dfki.uni-kl.de Terminological Knowl. Rep. w/Concrete Domains Machine Learning: COBWEB/3 -- Contact: cobweb@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov FOIL -- cluster.cs.su.oz.au [129.78.8.1] ~ftp/pub/foil4.sh contains source, a brief manual, and several sample datasets. Medical Reasoning: TMYCIN -- sumex-aix.stanford.edu:/tmycin Natural Language Processing: YACC -- ftp.cs.cmu.edu: /afs/cs/user/mkant/Public/Lisp/johnson-yacc.lisp Contact: Mark Johnson Lisp YACC/Parser. BABBLER -- Contact: rsf1@ra.msstate.edu Markov chains/NLP PENMAN -- Contact: hovy@isi.edu Natural Language Generation. PC-KIMMO -- msdos.archive.umich.edu:/msdos/linguistics/pckim105.zip An implementation of KIMMO morphological analyzer for the IBM PC. The Link Parser is a highly efficient English parser written by Danny Sleator and Davy Temperley. It uses a novel grammatical formalism known as Link Grammar to represent a robust and diverse collection of English-language phenomena. The system is available by anonymous ftp from spade.pc.cs.cmu.edu in the directory /usr/sleator/public/. Read the README file for more information. Neural Networks: Aspirin/MIGRAINES is a neural network simulator available free from the MITRE Corporation. It contains a neural network simulation code generator which generates high performance C code implementations for backpropagation networks. It runs on the following platforms: Apollo, Convex, Cray, DecStation, HP, IBM RS/6000, Intel 486/386 (Unix System V), NeXT, News, Silicon Graphics Iris, Sun3, Sun4, Mercury i860 (40MHz) Coprocessors, Meiko Computing Surface w/i860 (40MHz) Nodes, Skystation i860 (40MHz) Coprocessors, and iWarp Cells. The software is available by anonymous ftp from the CMU simulator collection on pt.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.254.155) in the directory /afs/cs/project/connect/code (you must cd to this directory in one atomic operation) and UCLA's cognitive science collection on ftp.cognet.ucla.edu (128.97.50.3) in the directory alexis as the file am6.tar.Z. For more information, contact Russell Leighton . MUME (Multi-Module Neural Computing Environment) is a simulation environment for multi-modules neural computing. It provides an object oriented facility for the simulation and training of multiple nets with various architectures and learning algorithms. The object oriented structure makes simple the addition of new network classes and new learning algorithms. _ MUME includes a library of network architectures including feedforward, simple recurrent, and continuously running recurrent neural networks. Each architecture is supported by a variety of learning algorithms, including backprop, weight perturbation, node perturbation, and simulated annealing. MUME can be used for large scale neural network simulations as it provides support for learning in multi-net environments. It also provide pre- and post-processing facilities. MUME can be used to include non-neural computing modules (decision trees, etc.) in applications. _ MUME is being developed at the Machine Intelligence Group at Sydney University Electrical Engineering. The software is written in 'C' and is being used on Sun and DEC workstations. Efforts are underway to port it to the Fujitsu VP2200 vector processor using the VCC vectorising C compiler. MUME is available to research institutions on a media/doc/postage cost arrangement. It is also available free for MSDOS by anonymous ftp from brutus.ee.su.oz.au:/pub/MUME-0.5-DOS.zip For further information, write to Marwan Jabri, SEDAL, Sydney University Electrical Engineering, NSW 2006 Australia, call +61-2-692-2240, fax +61-2-660-1228, or send email to Marwan Jabri . To be added to the mailing list, send email to mume-request@sedal.su.oz.au. Adaptive Logic Network (ALN) Available by anonymous ftp from menaik.cs.ualberta.ca (129.128.4.241) in pub/atree2.tar.Z. pub/atree2.zip is the MS-Windows/IBM PC version. Documentation is in pub/atree2.ps.Z. BPS Neural network simulator. Other files of interest. Executables are free; source code for a small fee. gmuvax2.gmu.edu:/pub/nn CONDELA A neural network definition language. tut.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/condela XERION A neural network simulator from Drew van Camp at the University of Toronto. It provides a library of routines for building networks and graphically displaying them. Written in C and uses the X window system for graphics. Example simulators include Back Propagation, Recurrent Back Propagation, Boltzmann Machine, Mean Field Theory, Free Energy Manipulation, Kohonnen Net, and Hard and Soft Competitive Learning. Xerion runs on SGI Personal Iris, SGI 4d, Sun3 (SunOS), Sun4 (SunOS). Available by anonymous ftp from ai.toronto.edu:/pub/xerion. See the file /pub/xerion.README for more information. To be added to the mailing list, send mail to xerion-request@ai.toronto.edu. Bugs should be reported to xerion-bugs@ai.toronto.edu. Complaints, suggestions or comments may be sent to xerion@ai.toronto.edu. Probabilistic Reasoning: BELIEF -- ftp.stat.washington.edu (128.95.17.34) Contact: Russell Almond IDEAL -- Contact: srinivas@rpal.rockwell.com Bayesian networks Planning: NONLIN -- cs.umd.edu:/pub/nonlin (128.8.128.8) Contact: nonlin-users-request@cs.umd.edu nonlin-bugs@cs.umd.edu ABTWEAK -- csis.dit.csiro.au:pub/steve Contact: Steven.Woods@csis.dit.csiro.au RHETORICAL -- cs.rochester.edu:/pub/knowledge-tools Contact: Brad Miller SNLP -- cs.washington.edu:/pub/snlp.tar.Z Contact: weld@cs.washington.edu Nonlinear planner. IDM -- sauquoit.gsfc.nasa.gov (128.183.101.29) Contact: idm-users@chelmsford.gsfc.nasa.gov STRIPS-like planning. PRODIGY -- Contact: prodigy@cs.cmu.edu Integrated Planning and Learning System SOAR -- ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/soar/5.2/2/public/ Contact: soar-request@cs.cmu.edu Integrated Agent Architecture MATS -- Contact: kautz@research.att.com Temporal constraints Qualitative Reasoning: QSIM -- cs.utexas.edu:/pub/qsim Contact: Ben Kuipers Robotics (Planning Testbeds): TILEWORLD -- cs.washington.edu:new-tileworld.tar.Z Planning testbed The ARS MAGNA abstract robot simular provides an abstract world in which a planner controls a mobile robot. This abstract world is more realistic than typical blocks worlds, in which micro-world simplifying assumptions do not hold. Experiments may be controlled by varying global world parameters, such as perceptual noise, as well as building specific environments in order to exercise particular planner features. The world is also extensible to allow new experimental designs that were not thought of originally. The simulator also includes a simple graphical user-interface which uses the CLX interface to the X window system. ARS MAGNA can be obtained by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.yale.edu, as ars-magna.tar.Z in the pub/nisp directory. Installation instructions are in the file Installation.readme. The simulator is written in Nisp, a macro-package for Common Lisp. Nisp can be retrieved in the same way as the simulator. Version 1.0 of the ARS MAGNA simulator is documented in Yale Technical Report YALEU/DCS/RR #928, "ARS MAGNA: The Abstract Robot Simulator". This report is available in the distribution as a PostScript file. Comments should be directed to Sean Philip Engelson . Theorem Proving/Automated Reasoning: Otter -- info.mcs.anl.gov:pub/Otter/Otter-2.2/otter22.tar.Z Isabelle -- ftp.cl.cam.ac.uk:ml/ [128.232.0.56] ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de:lehrstuhl/nipkow/ [131.159.0.110] Relevant files include: intro.dvi.Z "Introduction to Isabelle" ref.dvi.Z "The Isabelle Reference Manual" logics.dvi.Z "Isabelle's Object-Logics" 92.tar.Z Isabelle-92 distribution directory Contact: Larry.Paulson@cl.cam.ac.uk Tobias.Nipkow@informatik.tu-muenchen.de MVL -- t.stanford.edu:/mvl/mvl.tar.Z Contact: ginsberg@t.stanford.edu Multi-valued logics Boyer-Moore -- cli.com:pub/nqthm/nqthm.tar.Z rascal.ics.utexas.edu:/pub/nqthm 128.83.138.20 Contact: kaufman@cli.com Miscellaneous: University of Toronto: ftp -- ftp.cs.toronto.edu:/pub/ailist Archives of ailist mailing list, defunct as of January 19, 1990 PAIL (Portable AI Lab) ftp -- pobox.cscs.ch:/pub/ai/pail-2.1/ [148.187.10.13] contact: Mike Rosner and Dean Allemang {dean,mike}@idsia.ch The Artificial Intelligence CD-ROM (Volume One, 1992) is available from Network Cybernetics Corporation for $129.00 per copy (plus $5 shipping domestic, $10 shipping international). The AI CD-ROM is an ISO-9660 format disk usable on any computer system, and contain a variety of public domain, shareware, and other software of special interest to the AI community. The disk contains source code, executable programs, demonstration versions of commercial programs, tutorials and other files for a variety of operating systems. Among the supported operating systems are MS-DOS, OS/2, Mac, Amiga, and Unix. Among the items included are CLIPS v5.1 and NETS, courtesy of COSMIC, the collected source code from AIExpert magazine from the premier issue in June of 1986 to the present, and complete transcriptions of the first annual Loebner Prize competition, which took place at the Boston Computer Museum. It also includes examples many different kinds of neural networks, genetic algorithms, artificial life simulators, natural language software, public domain and shareware compilers for a wide range of languages such as Lisp, Xlisp, Scheme, XScheme, Smalltalk, Prolog, ICON, SNOBOL, and many others. Complete collections of the Neural Digest, Genetic Algorithms Digest, and Vision List Digest are included. Network Cybernetics Corporation intends to release annual revisions to the AI CD-ROM to keep it up to date with current developments in the field. For more information, write to Network Cybernetics Corporation, 4201 Wingren Road, Suite 202, Irving, Texas 75062-2763, call 214-650-2002, fax 214-650-1929, or send email to ai-cdrom@ncc.com or steve.rainwater@ncc.com (Steve Rainwater). ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [3-3] AI Bibliographies available by FTP The Computer Science Department at the University of Saarbruecken, Germany, maintains a large bibliographic database of articles pertaining to the field of Artificial Intelligence. Currently the database contains more than 25,000 references, which can be retrieved by electronic mail from the LIDO mailserver at lido@cs.uni-sb.de. Send a mail message with subject line "lidosearch help info" to get instructions on using the mail server. A variety of queries based on author names, title and year of publication are possible. The references can be provided in BibTeX or Refer formats. The entire bibliographic database can be obtained for a fee by ftp or on tape. Questions may be directed to bib-1@cs.uni-sb.de. A variety of AI-related bibliographies are located on nexus.yorku.ca in the directory /pub/bibliographies. For information on a fairly complete bibliography of computational linguistics and natural language processing work from the 1980s, send mail to clbib@csli.stanford.edu with the subject HELP. Stanford University (SUMEX-AIM) has a large BibTeX bibliography of Artificial Intelligence papers and technical reports. Available by anonymous ftp from aim.stanford.edu:/pub/ai{1,2,3}.bib A BibTeX database of references addressing neuro-fuzzy issues can be obtained by anonymous ftp from ftp.tu-bs.de (134.169.34.15) in the directory local/papers as the (ascii) file fuzzy-nn.bib. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [3-4] Technical Reports available by FTP This section lists the anonymous ftp sites for technical reports from several universities and other organizations. Some of the sites provide only an online catalog of technical reports, while the rest make the actual reports available online. The email address listed is that of the appropriate person to contact with questions about ordering technical reports. When ftping compressed .Z files, remember to set the transfer type to binary first, using the command ftp> binary Another general location for technical reports from several universities is available as wuarchive.wustl.edu:/doc/techreports/. The newsgroup comp.doc.techreports is devoted to distributing lists of tech reports and their abstracts. MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory: ftp -- ftp.ai.mit.edu:pub/publications/ email -- publications@ai.mit.edu A full catalog of MIT AI Lab technical reports (and a listing of recent updates) may be obtained from the above location, by writing to Publications, Room NE43-818, M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA, or by calling 1-617-253-6773. The catalog lists the technical reports ("AI Memos") with a short abstract and their current prices. There is also a charge for shipping. The only technical report currently available online is Sandiway Fong's 1991 PhD thesis, ``The Computational Properties of Principle-Based Grammatical Theories,'' which may be found in the directory pub/sandiway/. CMU School of Computer Science: ftp -- reports.adm.cs.cmu.edu email -- Technical.Reports@cs.cmu.edu CMU Software Engineering Institute: ftp -- ftp.sei.cmu.edu:/pub/documents email -- bjz@sei.cmu.edu Yale: ftp -- dept.cs.yale.edu:/pub/TR/ University of Washington CSE Tech Reports: ftp -- june.cs.washington.edu:/tr email -- tr-request@cs.washington.edu ================ AT&T Bell Laboratories: ftp -- research.att.com:/netlib/research/cstr bib.Z contains short bibliography, including all the technical reports contained in this directory. ftp -- research.att.com:/dist/ai Boston University: ftp -- cs.bu.edu:techreports/ email -- techreports@cs.bu.edu Brown University: ftp -- wilma.cs.brown.edu:techreports/ email -- techreports@cs.brown.edu Columbia University: ftp -- cs.columbia.edu:/pub/reports email -- tech-reports@cs.columbia.edu DEC Cambridge Research Lab: ftp -- crl.dec.com:/pub/DEC/CRL/{abstracts,tech-reports} DEC Paris Research Lab: email -- doc-server@prl.dec.com Put commands in Subject: line of the message. To get a list of articles, use send index articles To get a list of tech reports, use send index reports DFKI: ftp -- duck.dfki.uni-sb.de:/pub/papers email -- Martin Henz (henz@dfki.uni-sb.de) Duke University: ftp -- cs.duke.edu:/dist/{papers,theses} email -- techreport@cs.duke.edu Edinburgh: A list of available reports can be sent via email. Send requests for information about reports from the Center for Cognitive Science to cogsci%ed.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk, and from the Human Communication Research Center to HCRC%ed.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk. Georgia Tech College of Computing, AI Group: ftp -- ftp.cc.gatech.edu:pub/ai (130.207.3.245) email -- Professor Ashwin Ram Illinois: email -- Erna Amerman Indiana: ftp -- cogsci.indiana.edu:pub [129.79.238.12] ftp -- cs.indiana.edu:pub/techreports [129.79.254.191] Institute for Learning Sciences at Northwestern University: ftp -- ftp.ils.nwu.edu:/pub/papers/ New York University (NYU): ftp -- cs.nyu.edu:/pub/tech-reports OGI: ftp -- cse.ogi.edu:/pub/tech-reports email -- csedept@cse.ogi.edu Ohio State University, Laboratory for AI Research ftp -- nervous.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/papers email -- lair-librarian@cis.ohio-state.edu OSU Neuroprose: ftp -- archive.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/neuroprose (128.146.8.52) This directory contains technical reports as a public service to the connectionist and neural network scientific community which has an organized mailing list (for info: connectionists-request@cs.cmu.edu) Stanford: ftp -- elib.stanford.edu:/cs Very spotty collection. SUNY at Stony Brook: ftp -- sbcs.sunysb.edu:/pub/TechReports email -- rick@cs.sunysb.edu or stark@cs.sunysb.edu The /pub/sunysb directory contains the SB-Prolog implementation of the Prolog language. Contact warren@sbcs.sunysb.edu for more information. Thinking Machines: ftp -- ftp.think.com:think/techreport.list This file contains a list of Thinking Machines technical reports. Orders may be placed by email (limit 5) to t-rex@think.com, or by US Mail to Thinking Machines Corporation, Attn: Technical reports, 245 First Street, Cambridge, MA 01241. In addition, the directories cm/starlisp and cm/starlogo contain code for the *Lisp and *Logo simulators. University of Arizona: ftp -- cs.arizona.edu:reports/ email -- tr_libr@cs.arizona.edu The directory /japan/kahaner.reports contains reports on AI in Japan, among other things, written by Dr. David Kahaner, a numerical analyst on sabbatical to the Office of Naval Research-Asia (ONR Asia) in Tokyo from NIST. The reports are not written in any sort of official capacity, but are quite interesting. University of California/Santa Cruz: ftp -- ftp.cse.ucsc.edu:/pub/{bib,tr} email -- jean@cs.ucsc.edu University of Colorado: ftp -- ftp.cs.colorado.edu:/pub/cs/techreports University of Florida: ftp -- bikini.cis.ufl.edu:/cis/tech-reports University of Illinois at Urbana: ftp -- a.cs.uiuc.edu:/pub/dcs email -- erna@a.cs.uiuc.edu University of Indiana, Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition: ftp -- cogsci.indiana.edu:pub/ email -- helga@cogsci.indiana.edu University of Kentucky: ftp -- ftp.ms.uky.edu:ftp/pub/tech-reports/UK/cs/ University of Massachusetts at Amherst: email -- techrept@cs.umass.edu University of Michigan: ftp -- z.eecs.umich.edu:/techreports University of North Carolina: ftp -- ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/technical-reports/ University of Pennsylvania: email -- publications@upenn.edu USC/Information Sciences Institute: email -- Sheila Coyazo is the contact. University of Toronto: ftp -- ftp.cs.toronto.edu:/pub/reports email -- tech-reports@cs.toronto.edu University of Virginia: ftp -- uvacs.cs.virginia.edu:/pub/techreports/cs University of Wisconsin: ftp -- ftp.cs.wisc.edu:/tech-reports email -- tech-reports-archive@cs.wisc.edu Some AI authors have set up repositories of their own papers: Matthew Ginsberg: t.stanford.edu:/u/ftp/papers ---------------------------------------------------------------- ;;; *EOF*