FAQ: Artificial Intelligence Questions & Answers 1/6 [Monthly posting]
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*** Topics Covered:
Part 1:
[1-0] What is the purpose of this newsgroup?
[1-1] History of AI.
[1-2] Glossary of AI terms.
[1-3] What are the top schools in AI?
[1-4] How can I get the email address for Joe or Jill Researcher?
[1-5] What are the rules for the game of "Life"?
[1-6] What AI competitions exist?
[1-7] Commercial AI products.
[1-8] AI Job Postings
[1-9] Future Directions of AI
Part 2 (AI-related Newsgroups and Mailing Lists):
List of all known AI-related newsgroups, newsgroup archives, mailing
lists, and electronic bulletin board systems.
Part 3 (AI-related Associations and Journals):
List of AI-related associations and journals, organized by subfield.
Part 4 (Bibliography):
- Bibliography of introductory texts, overviews and references
- Addresses and phone numbers for major AI publishers
- Finding conference proceedings
- Finding PhD dissertations
Part 5 (FTP Resources):
[5-0] General Information about FTP Resources for AI
[5-1] FTP Repositories
[5-2a] FTP and Other Resources: Agents -- Planning
Note: Question [5-2] (FTP and Other Resources) is split across parts 5 and 6.
Part 6 (FTP Resources):
[5-2b] FTP and Other Resources: Qualitative Reasoning -- Theorem Proving
[6-1] AI Bibliographies available by FTP
[6-2] AI Technical Reports available by FTP
[6-3] Where can I get a machine readable dictionary, thesaurus, and
other text corpora?
[6-4] List of Smalltalk implementations.
[6-5] AI-related CD-ROMs
[6-6] World-Wide Web (WWW) Resources
Search for [#] to get to question number # quickly.
*** 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 FAQ is available via anonymous FTP from
ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/pubs/faqs/ai/ [128.2.206.173]
using username "anonymous" and password "name@host" (substitute your
email address) or via AFS in the Andrew File System directory
/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/ai-repository/ai/pubs/faqs/ai/
as the files ai_1.faq, ai_2.faq, ai_3.faq, ai_4.faq, ai_5.faq and ai_6.faq.
You can also obtain a copy of the FAQ by sending a message to
ai+q...@cs.cmu.edu with
Send AI FAQ
in the message body.
The FAQ postings are also archived in the periodic posting archive on
rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.answers/ai-faq/general/ [18.181.0.24]
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-...@rtfm.mit.edu
with "help" and "index" in the body on separate lines for more
information.
An automatically generated HTML version of the AI FAQ is accessible by
WWW as part of the AI-related FAQs Mosaic page. The URL for this
resource is
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/AI/html/faqs/top.html
The direct URL for the AI FAQ is
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/AI/html/faqs/ai/ai_general/top.html
If you need to cite the FAQ for some reason, use the following format:
Mark Kantrowitz, "Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about
Artificial Intelligence", comp.ai, <month>, <year>,
ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/pubs/faqs/ai/ai_?.faq, mkant+...@cs.cmu.edu.
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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.
Every so often, somebody posts an inflammatory message, such as
Will computers every really think?
AI hasn't done anything worthwhile.
These "religious" issues serve no real purpose other than to waste
bandwidth. If you feel the urge to respond to such a post, please do
so through a private e-mail message, or post redirecting follow-ups to
comp.ai.philosophy.
We've tried to minimize the overlap with the FAQ postings to the
comp.lang.lisp, comp.lang.prolog, comp.ai.neural-nets, and
comp.ai.shells 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 in subdirectories of
rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/
or by sending a mail message to mail-...@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/.
The Expert Systems Shells FAQ is also available by anonymous ftp from
the same ftp location as the AI FAQ.
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 <ja...@cs.sfu.ca>, 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:/user/ai/pubs/faqs/prolog/ [128.2.206.173]
or in the AFS directory
/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/ai-repository/ai/pubs/faqs/prolog/
as the files prg_1.faq and prg_2.faq.
The Robotics FAQ is available by anonymous ftp from
ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/nivek/robotics-faq/ [128.2.206.173]
as the files part1 and part2. To obtain a copy by email, send a message to
mail-...@rtfm.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:/archive/usenet/news.answers/robotics-faq/ [137.39.1.9]
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, by anonymous FTP from
ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/afs/cs/user/clamen/OODBMS/evolution-summary.gz
or at the URL
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~clamen/OODBMS/evolution-summary.gz
The Neurosciences Internet Resource Guide is available by
anonymous ftp from
una.hh.lib.umich.edu:/inetdirsstacks/neurosci:cormbonario
and by WWW from
gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu/00/inetdirsstacks/neurosci:cormbonario
in text (ascii) form. A hypertext version of the guide suitable for
viewing using Mosaic is available from
http://http2.sils.umich.edu/Public/nirg/nirg1.html
For more information, contact Steve Bonario and Sheryl Cormicle
<ni...@umich.edu>.
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Subject: [1-1] History of AI.
For an online timeline of artificial intelligence milestones, see
ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/pubs/faqs/ai/timeline.txt
The appendix to Ray Kurzweil's book "Intelligent Machines" (MIT Press,
1990, ISBN 0-262-11121-7, $39.95) gives a timeline of the history of AI.
Pamela McCorduck, "Machines Who Think", Freeman, San Francisco, CA, 1979.
Allen Newell, "Intellectual Issues in the History of Artificial
Intelligence", Technical Report CMU-CS-82-142, Carnegie Mellon
University Computer Science Department, October 28, 1982.
See also:
Charniak and McDermott's book "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence",
Addison-Wesley, 1985 contains a number of historical pointers.
Daniel Crevier, "AI: The Tumultuous History of the Search for
Artificial Intelligence", Basic Books, New York, 1993.
Henry C. Mishkoff, "Understanding Artificial Intelligence", 1st edition,
Howard W. Sams & Co., Indianapolis, IN, 1985, 258 pages,
ISBN 0-67227-021-8 $14.95.
Margaret A. Boden, "Artificial Intelligence and Natural Man", 2nd edition,
Basic Books, New York, 1987, 576 pages.
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Subject: [1-2] Glossary of AI terms.
This is the start of a simple glossary of short definitions for AI terminology.
ai:
A three-toed sloth of genus Bradypus. This forest-dwelling
animal eats the leaves of the trumpet-tree and sounds a
high-pitched squeal when disturbed. (Based on the Random House
dictionary definition.)
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.
Case-based Reasoning:
Technique whereby "cases" similar to the current problem are
retrieved and their "solutions" modified to work on the current
problem.
Data Mining:
Also known as Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) was been defined
as "The nontrivial extraction of implicit, previously unknown, and
potentially useful information from data" in Frawley and
Piatetsky-Shapiro's overview. It uses machine learning, statistical
and visualization techniques to discover and present knowledge in a
form which is easily comprehensible to humans.
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.
Nonlinear Planning:
A planning paradigm which does not enforce a total (linear)
ordering on the components of a plan.
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.
Validation:
The process of confirming that one's model uses measureable inputs
and produces output that can be used to make decisions about the
real world.
Verification:
The process of confirming that an implemented model works as intended.
Weak AI:
Claim that computers are important tools in the modeling and
simulation of human activity.
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Subject: [1-3] 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. Note that the research need not
be conducted in the school's computer science department for the
school to be listed -- in some cases we've included schools where the
research is being conducted in a different department or special laboratory.
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 part 3 of
the FAQ).
A genealogy of AI thesis-advising relationships is available by
anonymous ftp as
cs.ucsd.edu:/pub/rik/aigen.rpt
Although intended to complement citation analysis and free-text
information retrieval as tools for understanding the AI community and
their connections to other disciplines, it may be useful to
prospective graduate students. For example, it may help you understand
the historical context of a given professor's perspective. 2,600 MS
and PhD theses have been tabulated so far. If you'd like to
contribute additional listings (including year, title, abstract,
school, advisor, committee members, and subsequent employment), write
to Rik Belew <r...@cs.ucsd.edu> or fax 619-534-7029, for the
questionnaire. A copy of the questionaire and more information is
available in
cs.ucsd.edu:/pub/rik/announce.t
A list of email addresses for CS departments is posted once a month to
the newsgroup soc.college.gradinfo.
The Association for Computational Linguistics publishes a directory of
graduate programs in Computational Linguistics ($15 for members, $30
for others). It includes several useful indices (e.g., index of
faculty and a list of references). Contact Association for
Computational Linguistics, Walker, C. N. 925, Bernardsville, NJ
07924-0925, phone/fax 908-204-1337, or send email to a...@bellcore.com.
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
Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University (ILS)
Johns Hopkins University
Maryland
Rutgers
SUNY/Buffalo
Toronto
UC/Berkeley
UCLA
Univ. of Edinburgh
Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Univ. of Maryland/College Park
Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst
Univ. of Michigan
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Univ. of Pittsburgh
Univ. of Rochester
Univ. of Southern California & USC/Information Sciences Institute
Univ. of Sussex, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
Univ. of Texas/Austin
Yale
Universities with 2 or more AAAI Fellows:
Note: Some Fellows have changed their affiliation since being named,
so this list isn't completely accurate.
12 MIT
11 Stanford University
10 Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
6 Univ. of Massachusetts
5 Univ. of Toronto
5 Univ. of Texas at Austin
5 Univ. of Pennsylvania
5 Rutgers
3 Northwestern
3 UCLA
3 Univ. of Edinburgh
3 Univ. of Illinois
3 Univ. of Maryland
3 Univ. of Southern California (USC)
3 USC/Information Sciences Institute
2 Brown University
2 Duke University
2 Harvard
2 Univ. of California, Berkeley
2 Univ. of Pittsburgh
2 Univ. of Rochester
2 Univ. of Sydney
Universities with only one AAAI Fellow include: Columbia University,
George Mason, Georgia Tech, Imperial College, New Mexico State, Ohio
State, Oregon State University, Oxford, P. and M. Curie University,
SUNY/Binghamton, SUNY/Buffalo, Saint Joseph, San Jose State, Syracuse,
Tufts, UC Irvine, UC/Santa Cruz, UCSD, Univ. of Birmingham, Univ. of
British Columbia, Univ. of Cambridge, Univ. of Linkoeping, Univ. of
Marseille, Univ. of Minnesota, Univ. of Sussex, Wellesley, Yale
The full list of AAAI Fellows and their affiliations is available
by anonymous ftp as
ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/pubs/faqs/ai/aifellow.txt
AI and Manufacturing:
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) -- CIMDS
Univ. of Maryland/College Park
Univ. of Toronto
AI and Medicine:
MIT
Stanford
Univ. of Pittsburgh
Univ. of Birmingham England (School of Computer Science)
AI and Legal Reasoning:
Imperial College
Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst
Artificial Life:
MIT (Brooks' mobots)
NYU
Santa Fe Institute (SFI)
Stanford
UC Santa Cruz
UCLA
UCSD
Univ. of Birmingham England (School of Computer Science)
Univ. of Delaware
Univ. of Sussex, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
Automated Deduction/Theorem Proving:
Imperial College
Stanford
Univ. of Edinburgh
Univ. of Oregon
Univ. of Texas/Austin
Case-Based Reasoning/Analogical Reasoning:
Chicago
Georgia Tech
Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University (ILS)
Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst
Univ. of Pittsburgh
Cognitive Modelling:
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
Georgia Tech
Indiana
SUNY Buffalo
Univ. of Birmingham England (School of Computer Science)
Univ. of Maryland/College Park
Univ. of Michigan
Cognitive Science:
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
Georgia Tech
Indiana University/Bloomington
Johns Hopkins
MIT
Princeton
Rutgers
SUNY/Buffalo
Stanford
UC/Berkeley
UC/San Diego
Univ. of Birmingham England (School of Computer Science)
Univ. of Colorado/Boulder
Univ. of Edinburgh
Univ. of Minnesota
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Univ. of Rochester
Univ. of Sussex, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
Computational Biology:
Carnegie Mellon University
Johns Hopkins University
Rutgers
UC/Berkeley
Univ. of Birmingham England (School of Computer Science)
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Univ. of Wisconsin/Madison
Computer Vision: See Machine Vision
Connectionism/Neural Networks:
Boston University, Cognitive and Neural Systems Department (ART networks)
Brown University
CalTech
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Indiana
Johns Hopkins University
MIT
Ohio State Univ.
Stanford
Syracuse University
Texas A&M
Toronto
UC/Berkeley
UC/Irvine
UC/San Diego
UCLA
UNC/Chapel Hill
Univ. of Birmingham England (School of Computer Science)
Univ. of Colorado/Boulder
Univ. of Edinburgh
Univ. of Maryland/College Park
Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Univ. of Southern California & USC/Information Sciences Institute
Univ. of Sussex, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
Univ. of Wisconsin
Decision Theory and AI:
Berkeley
MIT
Stanford
Univ. of Michigan
Univ. of Washington
Distributed AI:
Georgia Institute Of Technology
MIT
Nova Southeastern University
Stanford University
Univ. of Maryland
Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst
Univ. of Michigan
Emotion:
Carnegie Mellon University
Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University (ILS)
Univ. of Birmingham England (School of Computer Science)
Fuzzy Logic:
Berkeley
Univ. of Birmingham England (School of Computer Science)
Genetic Algorithms:
George Mason Univ.
Indiana
Stanford (Koza)
UC San Diego
UCLA
Univ. of Birmingham England (School of Computer Science)
Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Univ. of Michigan
Univ. of Sussex, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
Integrated AI Architectures/Software Agents:
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
Stanford
Univ. of Birmingham England (School of Computer Science)
Univ. of Michigan
Univ. of Sussex, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
Intelligent Tutoring, AI & Education:
Carnegie Mellon University (Cognitive Science Department)
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University (ILS)
Univ. of Birmingham England (School of Computer Science)
Univ. of Pittsburgh
Univ. of Sussex, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
Knowledge Representation:
Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University (ILS)
Stanford
SUNY/Buffalo
Univ. of Birmingham England (School of Computer Science)
Univ. of Maryland/College Park
Univ. of Oregon
Logic Programming and Logic-based AI:
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
Imperial College
Stanford
UCLA
Univ. of Edinburgh
Univ. of Maryland/College Park
Univ. of Melbourne
Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Univ. of Oregon
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Machine Discovery:
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
Univ. of Birmingham England (School of Computer Science)
Machine Learning:
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
George Mason
Georgia Tech
Johns Hopkins University
MIT
UCI
Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst
Univ. of Michigan
Univ. of Southern California & USC/Information Sciences Institute
Univ. of Texas/Austin
Univ. of Wisconsin
Machine Vision:
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
Columbia
Johns Hopkins
MIT
Oxford
SUNY/Buffalo
UCLA
UNC/Chapel Hill
Univ. of Birmingham England (School of Computer Science)
Univ. of Edinburgh
Univ. of Maryland/College Park
Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst
Univ. of Rochester
Univ. of Southern California & USC/Information Sciences Institute
Univ. of Sussex, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
Univ. of Wisconsin
Natural Language Processing (NLU, NLG, Parsing, NLI, Speech):
Brown
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
Columbia
Georgia Tech
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University (ILS)
ISI
Indiana
Johns Hopkins University
MIT
Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Engineering
Penn
Rutgers
Stanford
SUNY/Buffalo
Toronto
UCLA
Univ. of Birmingham England (School of Computer Science)
Univ. of Edinburgh
Univ. of Maryland/College Park
Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst
Univ. of Pittsburgh
Univ. of Rochester
Univ. of Southern California & USC/Information Sciences Institute
Univ. of Sussex, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
Waterloo (stylistics, MT, discourse)
Nonmonotonic Reasoning:
Imperial College
Stanford
UCLA
Univ. of Birmingham England (School of Computer Science)
Univ. of Maryland/College Park
Univ. of Oregon
Toronto
Philosophy of AI:
Berkeley
MIT
SUNY Buffalo
Univ. of Birmingham England (School of Computer Science)
Univ. of Maryland/College Park
Univ. of Sussex, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
Planning:
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
Imperial College
MIT
Stanford
SUNY Buffalo
Univ. of Birmingham England (School of Computer Science)
Univ. of Maryland/College Park
Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst
Univ. of Oregon
Univ. of Pittsburgh
Univ. of Rochester
Univ. of Washington/Seattle
Waterloo
Production Systems/Expert Systems:
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Stanford
Univ. of Birmingham England (School of Computer Science)
Qualitative Physics and Model Based Reasoning:
Northwestern ILS (Forbus)
Univ. of Oregon
Univ. of Texas/Austin
Univ. of Washington
Reasoning Under Uncertainty (Probabilistic Reasoning, Approximate
Reasoning, etc.):
Brown University
George Mason
Oregon State University
Stanford
UCLA
Univ. of Maryland/College Park
Univ. of Rochester
University of South Carolina
Robotics:
Bristol Polytechnic, UK
Brown
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
Georgia Tech
Harvard
Hull University, UK
Johns Hopkins University
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 Edinburgh
Univ. of Kansas
Univ. of Kentucky
Univ. of Maryland/College Park
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 Maryland/College Park
Univ. of Oregon
Temporal Reasoning:
Imperial College
Virtual Reality:
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
Cal Arts
Columbia
Florida Institute of Technology
MIT Media Lab
Naval Postgraduate School
Naval Research Lab
RPI
Stanford
Syracuse
Toronto
UIUC
UNC/Chapel Hill
Univ. of Alberta, Banff
Univ. of Birmingham England (School of Computer Science)
Univ. of Central Florida
Univ. of Geneva
Univ. of North Carolina/Chapel Hill (UNC)
Univ. of Tokyo
Univ. of Virginia (UVA)
Univ. of Washington/Seattle -- HIT Lab
Vision: See Machine Vision
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Subject: [1-4] 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 in...@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
lhc.nlm.nih.gov:/pub/aimb-db/
There are computer- and human-readable versions available. Get the
README file for more information or send email to Larry Hunter,
<hun...@nlm.nih.gov>.
E-mail addresses for members of the Linguistics Society of America
(LSA) are available by anonymous ftp as
linguistics.archive.umich.edu:/linguistics/LSA.email.list
or by sending a message to list...@tamvm1.tamu.edu with
"get lsa lst linguist" in the message body.
A list of "Who's Who in Fuzzy Logic" may be obtained by sending a
message to lists...@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at with
GET LISTSERVER WHOISWHOINFUZZY
in the message body. New entries and corrections should be sent to
Robert Fuller <rfu...@finabo.abo.fi>.
WHO's On-Line is a WWW biographical database of folks on the internet.
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/Canessa/ENTRIES/entries.html
For more information, contact E. Canessa <cane...@ictp.trieste.it>.
The Association for Logic Program (ALP) membership list was published
in the February 1994 issue of the newsletter (Volume 7/1). It will be
made available by anonymous ftp from Imperial College in October 1994.
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Subject: [1-5] 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. Another optimization to to maintain a list of the cells
that changed.
Conway has demonstrated that it is possible to construct the basic
building blocks of a computer from Life using modified glider guns.
See the last chapter of
Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John H. Conway, and Richard K. Guy, "Winning
Ways", Academic Press, New York, 1982, ISBN 0-120911-507.
for details.
Some interesting patterns to use include:
*
* * ** * *
** * ** * * * *
** *** * * ****
* **** *** *** * *
* ** *
Clock Glider Block Spaceship * * *
* ****
*
Traffic Light Cheshire Cat
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Subject: [1-6] 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, see the URL
http://info.acm.org/~loebner/loebner-prize.htmlx
or write to 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, mwti...@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.
AAAI has an annual robot building competition. The anonymous FTP site
for the contest is/was
aeneas.mit.edu:/pub/ACS/6.270/AAAI/
This site has the manual and the rules. To be added to the
rbl...@ai.mit.edu mailing list for discussing the AAAI robot building
contest, send mail to rbl-94-...@ai.mit.edu. See also the 6.270
robot building guide in part 4 of this FAQ.
The International Computer Chess Association presents an annual prize
for the best computer-generated annotation of a chess game. The output
should be reminiscent of that appearing in newspaper chess columns,
and will be judged on both the correctness and depth of the variations
and also on the quality of the program's written output. The deadline
is December 31, 1994. For more information, write to Tony Marsland
<to...@cs.ualberta.ca>, ICCA President, Computing Science Department,
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada T6G 2H1, call 403-492-3971, or
fax 403-492-1071.
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Subject: [1-7] Commercial AI products.
Commercial Expert System Shells are listed in the Expert System Shells FAQ.
See the Robotics FAQ for information on Robotics manufacturers.
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 <stiq...@cs.indiana.edu>. To join the Stiquito
mailing list run by Jon Blow of UC/Berkeley, send mail to
stiquito...@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 in...@til.com or
til!info. TIL also supports an email-server that can be reached at
fuzzy-...@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".
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.
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Subject: [1-8] AI Job Postings
The AI-Jobs mailing list exists to help programmers and researchers
find AI programming and research positions, and to help companies with
AI programming and research positions find capable AI programmers and
researchers.
Material appropriate for the list includes AI job announcements and
should be sent to ai+ai...@cs.cmu.edu. Resumes should NOT be sent to
the list.
As a matter of policy, the contents of this mailing list is
considered confidential and will not be disclosed to anybody.
To subscribe, send a message to ai+q...@cs.cmu.edu with
subscribe ai-jobs <First Name> <Last Name>, <Affiliation/Organization>
in the message body and no Subject line.
Similar lists exist for post-doctoral fellowships (subscribe to AI-POSTDOC),
pre-doctoral fellowships (subscribe to AI-PREDOC), Lisp jobs
(subscribe to Lisp-Jobs) and Prolog jobs (subscribe to Prolog-Jobs).
(If your mailer objects to the "+", send subscription requests to
"ai+query"@cs.cmu.edu, job announcements to "ai+ai-jobs"@cs.cmu.edu, etc.)
For help on using the query server, send mail to ai+q...@cs.cmu.edu with
help
in the message body and no Subject line.
Job postings sent to the list are automatically archived in
appropriate subdirectories of
ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/jobs/
or on the AI-related Job Posting Archives web page
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/AI/html/other/jobs.html
If you have any other questions, please send them to a...@cs.cmu.edu
[For neural networks, the Neuron Digest and Connectionists mailing
lists are a good source of job postings. For computer vision, the
VISION-LIST digest includes occasional job announcements. A good
source for general AI is Computists' Communique. For postdoctoral
appointments, see sci.research.postdocs.]
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Subject: [1-9] Future Directions of AI
The purpose of this question is to compile a list of major ongoing and
future thrusts of AI. To be included in this list a research problem
or application must have the following characteristics:
[1] Collaborative Community Effort: It must span several subfields
of AI, requiring some degree of collaboration between AI
researchers of different specialties. The idea is to help
unify the fragmented subfields with a common purpose or
purposes.
[2] High Impact: It must address important problems of widespread interest.
Solving the problem must matter to many people and not simply
be adding another grain of sand on the anthill. This will help
motivate and excite researchers, and justify the field to outsiders.
[3] Short Horizon for Progress: It must be possible to have incremental
progress and not be an all or nothing problem. For example,
problems where we can reasonably expect to make significant
measurable progress over the next 10 years or so.
[4] Drive Basic Research: It should involve more than just
applying current technology, but should drive basic research
and the development of new technology (possibly in completely
new directions).
In short, these problems should be "Grand Challenges" for AI. If you
were trying to describe the field of AI to a layman, what concrete
problems would you use to illustrate the overall vision of the field?
Saying that the goal of AI is to produce "thinking machines that solve
problems" doesn't quite cut it.
o Knowbots/Infobots and Intelligent Help Desks
Unifies NLU, NLG, Information Retrieval, KR, Reasoning,
Intelligent User Interfaces, Qualitative Reasoning.
o Autonomous Vehicles
Unifies Robotics, Machine Vision, Machine Learning,
Intelligent Control, Planning
o Machine Translation
Unifies NLU, NLG, Knowledge Representation, Speech Understanding,
Speech Synthesis
Additional problems are, of course, welcome. I have not included the
Loebner Prize (e.g., passing the unrestricted Turing Test) in the list
because it doesn't address a high impact problem.
It seems appropriate to mention, in this context, some of the early
goals of AI. In 1958 Newell and Simon predicted that computers would
-- by 1970 -- be capable of composing classical music, discovering
important new mathematical theorems, playing chess at grandmaster
level, and understanding and translating spoken language. Although
these predictions were overly optimistic, they did represent a set of
focused goals for the field of AI. [See H. A. Simon and A. Newell,
"Heuristic Problem Solving: The Next Advance in Operations Research",
Operation Research, pages 1-10, January-February 1958.]
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Part 2 (AI-related Newsgroups and Mailing Lists):
List of all known AI-related newsgroups, mailing lists, and
electronic bulletin board systems.
Outline:
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[0] How to Subscribe to a Mailing List
[1] AI-related Newsgroups
[1a] AI-related Newsgroup Archives
[1b] AI-related Newsgroup FAQ postings
[2] AI Research in a particular country
[3] Dial-up AI-related Bulletin Board Systems
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[4] Artificial Life
[5] AI for Development
[6] AI in Education
[7] AI and Law
[8] AI in Medicine
[9] AI and Statistics
[10] Blackboard Architectures
[11] Business, Economics, Finance (IE-Digest, AT-Finance)
[12] Cellular Automata
[13] Classification and Clustering
[14] Cognitive Science and Psychology
[15] Connectionism and Neural Networks
[16] Constraint Satisfaction
[17] Cybernetics and Systems
[18] Diagrams
[19] Distributed AI
[20] Expert Systems in Agriculture
[21] Use of Computers in the Fine Arts
[22] Fuzzy Logic
[23] Game Playing
[24] Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming
[25] HCI: AI Applications to Human-Computer Interface Design
[26] Knowledge Acquisition
[27] Knowledge-based Scheduling
[28] Knowledge Representation
[29] Logic Programming, Prolog
[30] Machine Discovery
[31] Machine Learning
[33] Natural Language Processing
[34] Qualitative Physics
[35] Robotics
[36] Simulated Annealing
[37] Simulation
[38] Symbolic Math
[39] Theorem Provers
[40] Case-Based Reasoning
[41] Uncertainty
[45] Vision Research
[50] Commercial Systems: Kappa PC, ...
[60] Miscellaneous: Artificial Morality, Intelligent Control,
Intelligent Decision Support Systems, Frogs,
Meteorology, Natural World Problems, OOP Frameworks
[61] AI Research
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Search for [#] to get to question number # quickly.
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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 <forum-name> <your-full-name>
as the first and only line in the body of the message. To unsubscribe
to a ListServ list, send
UNSUB <forum-name>
or
SIGNOFF <forum-name>
instead.
For Lisp-related mailing lists, see part 4 of the FAQ for the
newsgroup comp.lang.lisp.
The LISTSERV home page is located at the URL
http://www.clark.net/pub/listserv/listserv.html
It includes a list of the top 40 listserv lists (the Linguist list is
#20 with 5800 members, and SCHOLAR is #29 with 3984 members), and
lists of listserv lists organized alphabetically and by category.
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Subject: [1] AI-related Newsgroups
Subscribe to these using your newsreader.
comp.ai Artificial Intelligence
comp.ai.alife Artificial Life
comp.ai.edu AI and Education
comp.ai.fuzzy Fuzzy Logic. Gatewayed to NAFIPS-L and Fuzzy-Mail.
comp.ai.games AI in Games and Game Playing
comp.ai.genetic Genetic Algorithms
comp.ai.nat-lang Natural Language Processing (unmoderated)
comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Natural Language and Knowledge Representation
(Moderated).
comp.ai.neural-nets Neural Networks
comp.ai.philosophy Philosophical Foundations of AI
comp.ai.shells Expert System Shells
comp.robotics Robotics
comp.speech Speech related research, including speech
recognition and synthesis.
comp.ai.vision Vision Research. Also available through
the Vision List Digest (see [45] below).
comp.ai.doc-analysis.ocr Optical Character Recognition
comp.ai.doc-analysis.misc Other document analysis
comp.theory.info-retrieval Information Retrieval
comp.cog-eng Cognitive Engineering
sci.cognitive Cognitive Science
sci.psychology.research Psychology. Bi-directionally gatewayed to
the psy-research mailing list; send mail to
psy-resear...@psy.psych.nova.edu
to subscribe.
comp.simulation Simulation
sci.lang Linguistics
sci.math.symbolic Symbolic Math
sci.virtual-worlds Virtual Reality. Also available through
the bi-directional gateway, VIRTU-L on
LIST...@UIUCVMD.BITNET or
LIST...@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU
comp.theory.cell-automata Cellular Automata
comp.theory.self-org-sys Self-organizing systems
comp.ai.jair.announce Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
comp.ai.jair.papers Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
AI Programming Languages
comp.constraints Constraint Processing
comp.lang.clos Common Lisp Object System
comp.lang.dylan Dylan
comp.lang.functional Functional Programming Languages
comp.lang.lisp Common Lisp
comp.lang.lisp.franz Franz Lisp
comp.lang.lisp.mcl Macintosh Common Lisp
comp.lang.lisp.x XLisp
comp.lang.ml Standard ML. Gatewayed to sml-...@cs.cmu.edu.
comp.lang.prolog Prolog and Logic Programming
comp.lang.scheme Scheme
comp.lang.scheme.c MIT C Scheme
comp.lang.smalltalk Smalltalk
comp.lang.pop POPLOG integrated programming language &
environment for Lisp, Prolog, ML and Pop11
comp.object Object Oriented Programming
comp.object.logic Integrating Object-Orientend and Logic Paradigms
comp.org.lisp-users Association of Lisp Users
comp.std.lisp Lisp Standards
aicom mcvax!swivax!ot...@uunet.uu.net International Usenet AI news
German AI newsgroups:
de.sci.ki.announce
de.sci.ki.discussion
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Subject: [1a] AI-related Newsgroup Archives
Of the newsgroups listed in [1], the following are archived on a weekly basis
in appropriate subdirectories of
ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/pubs/news/
as gzipped tar files:
comp.ai, comp.ai.alife, comp.ai.edu, comp.ai.fuzzy, comp.ai.genetic,
comp.ai.jair.announce, comp.ai.jair.papers, comp.ai.nat-lang,
comp.ai.neural-nets, comp.ai.nlang-know-rep, comp.ai.philosophy,
comp.ai.shells, comp.ai.vision, comp.constraints, comp.lang.clos,
comp.lang.dylan, comp.lang.lisp, comp.lang.lisp.franz,
comp.lang.lisp.mcl, comp.lang.lisp.x, comp.lang.prolog,
comp.lang.scheme, comp.lang.smalltalk, comp.object.logic,
comp.org.lisp-users, comp.robotics, comp.speech, comp.std.lisp,
comp.sys.ti.explorer, comp.sys.xerox, sci.lang.
comp.ai.fuzzy is also archived on the Aptronix FuzzyNet and TIL
mail-servers (see [5-2]).
comp.robotics is also archived at the anonymous ftp site
wilma.cs.brown.edu:/pub/comp.robotics/
Read the files AuthorIndex and SubjectIndex first.
comp.speech is also archived by anonymous ftp at
svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk:/comp.speech/archive/ [129.169.24.20]
Other useful information is archived in
svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk:/comp.speech/info/
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Subject: [1b] AI-related Newsgroup FAQ postings
Of the newsgroups listed in [1], the following have FAQ postings:
comp.ai, comp.ai.fuzzy, comp.ai.shells, comp.ai.genetic, comp.robotics,
comp.speech, comp.neural-nets, comp.lang.lisp, comp.lang.scheme,
comp.lang.clos, comp.lang.prolog, comp.object, comp.theory.cell.automata,
comp.constraints, comp.ai.nat-lang, comp.lang.smalltalk
Many of the FAQ postings are available by anonymous FTP from
ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/pubs/faqs/
comp.ai
ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/pubs/faqs/ai/
comp.ai.fuzzy
ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/pubs/faqs/fuzzy/
comp.ai.shells
ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/pubs/faqs/expert/
comp.ai.genetic
The FAQ is posted quarterly and is available from
lumpi.informatik.uni-dortmund.de:/pub/EA/docs/
ftp.santafe.edu:/pub/EC/FAQ/
as hhgtec-2.1.ps.gz (postscript) or part? (text).
Maintained by David Beasley <david....@cm.cf.ac.uk>.
comp.ai.neural-nets
The WWW version of the nnets FAQ is available as
http://www.eeb.ele.tue.nl/index.html
and is maintained by Heini Withagen <hei...@sun3.eeb.ele.tue.nl>.
comp.constraints
The FAQ is available by FTP as
ftp.cs.city.ac.uk:/pub/constraints/constraints-faq/ [138.40.91.9]
as the files part1 and part2 and is maintained by Michael Jampel
<jam...@cs.city.ac.uk>.
The FAQ also has a WWW page (with more information than the FAQ):
http://web.cs.city.ac.uk/archive/constraints/constraints.html
comp.speech
The FAQ is also available by WWW as
http://www.speech.su.oz.au/comp.speech
comp.theory.cell-automata
The FAQ is available by FTP as
think.com:/incoming/ca-faq.tar.Z
alife.santafe.edu:/pub/topics/cas/
and by WWW as
http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/topics/cas/ca-faq/ca-faq.html
comp.object
The FAQ is available by anonymous ftp from
zaphod.uchicago.edu:/pub/
as the files comp.object-faq.*, or by WWW from
http://cui_www.unige.ch/OSG/FAQ/OO-FAQ/index.html
comp.lang.lisp
ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/pubs/faqs/lisp/
comp.lang.scheme
ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/pubs/faqs/scheme/
comp.lang.clos
ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/pubs/faqs/lisp/
comp.lang.prolog
ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/pubs/faqs/prolog/
comp.lang.smalltalk
The FAQ is available by anonymous ftp from
xcf.berkeley.edu:/misc/smalltalk/
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Subject: [2] AI Research in a particular country
British AI alvey jws%ib.rl...@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
Japanese AI fj-ai%etl...@relay.cs.net
Mexican AI IAMEX-L on list...@tecmtyvm.mty.itesm.mx
Florida AI FLAIRS on list...@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu
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:
pl50...@tecmtyvm.bitnet (Juana Maria Gomez Puertos)
pl15...@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 aus.ai is the (unmoderated) Australian equivalent of comp.ai.
BCINFO-IT is a mailing list for information about information
technology in Britain. To subscribe, send mail to
bcif...@solomon.technet.sg
with
ADD BCINFO-IT <your email address here>
in the Subject line of the message. For more information, contact
Mrs Yu-Toh Yin Yin, Information Officer, The British Council,
30 Napier Road, Singapore 1025, call 473-1111 x145, fax 479-7481, or
send email to bcif...@solomon.technet.sg.
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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: NCC AI CD-ROM submission site, general AI archive.
Free access 1/2 hour per day.
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 509-627-6267 (Fido 1:347/303) USR HST (9600bps)
SysOp: Wesley Elsberry Hours: 24
Desc: Best source for neural network related information.
Cognitive Development BBS 01256-50086 (It'l 44-1256-50086) 8/N/1 (14.4kbps)
SysOp: Matthew Probert <pro...@servile.dungeon.com>
Desc: Lisp, Prolog, Expert Systems, NLP, Turing Test
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 baud
Motorola FREEBBS:
512-891-3733 E/7/1 1200-9600 baud
Electronic Design News (EDN) BBS:
617-558-4241 N/8/1 1200-9600 baud
Neural Networks Related BBS's:
Central Neural System, 409-737-5222
8-N-1, 300-14,400 bps v.32bis or HST
or NEURAL_NET Echo from FidoNet 1:117/385
Operated by Wesley R. Elsberry, 6070 Sea Isle, Galveston, TX 77554.
E-mail: wels...@orca.tamu.edu
URL: http://www.rtis.com/nat/user/elsberry
Elsberry will mail you files if you send him a DOS diskette, SASE,
and a list of file names from his F3407_2.ZIP or CNS_FILE.LST index
in the ARTICLES area. You'll need the InfoZip compression program,
which is compatible with the PKZ204G distribution.
The files are mirrored on
me.uta.edu:/pub/neural/ [129.107.2.20]
Source code for this program for PC/Mac/Unix/Atari is included in
the COMPRESS file area. CNS contains a variety of neural-network,
genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic, artificial life, and AI code,
mostly for PCs, but some for Unix and Mac.
Online Services AI Forums:
Delphi GO CUST 206
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Subject: [4] Artificial Life
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-...@cognet.ucla.edu to be added to the list.
See also the UCLA Artificial Life Depository in question [5-1].
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Subject: [5] AI for Development
An occasional newsletter for folk interested in AI applications in
and for developing countries. 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
<k...@aisb.ed.ac.uk>.
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Subject: [6] AI in Education
AI-ED:
ai...@sun.com (was ai...@sumex-aim.stanford.edu)
Includes ICAI (intelligent computer aided instruction) and
ITS (intelligent tutoring systems).
All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions,
etc., should be sent to ai-ed-...@sun.com.
[As of 12/12/94, this list seems to have moved. Anybody know where?]
HUMANIST: [Mail from utorepas bounces. 8/18/93 mk]
humanist%utorepa...@cornellc.ccs.cornell.edu
HUMANIST is an international mailing list for discussion of
applications of computers to scholarship in the humanities. AI
or NLP topics sometimes come up.
Interested individuals should send a note together with a brief
biography to the Coordinator in the following format:
*Family-name, Given-names <e-mail address>
Title, mailing address(es), telephone number(s).
Body of biography. This should not be a c.v. and need not be very
detailed but should cover the full range of your professional
activities and interests, both present and past. Mention other things
at your discretion. Biographies vary considerably in length, though
few are less than 100 words or more than 500.
Coordinator:
Willard McCarty <mccarty%utorepa...@cornellc.ccs.cornell.edu>
NEWEDU-L:
NEWEDU-L is dedicated to exploring new paradigms in education and
how they can be implemented, including, among other things, the role
of artificial intelligence in education.
To subscribe, send a message to list...@uscvm.bitnet or
list...@vm.usc.eduwith the following line in the message body:
SUBSCRIBE NEWEDU-L Your_full_name
To remove yourself from the mailing list, send a message with the line
SIGNOFF NEWEDU-L
For further information, contact the moderators, Greg Swan and Paul
Privateer, at npa...@mc.maricopa.edu.
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Subject: [7] Artificial Intelligence and Law
To subscribe to AIL-L you should send a message to the internet address
list...@austin.onu.edu
The body of the message should consist of:
subscribe AIL-L <your full name>
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Subject: [8] AI in Medicine
AI in Medicine:
ai-me...@med.stanford.edu
Focus is on computer-based medical decision support. Currently over
1,000 subscribers in more than 35 countries.
All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions,
etc., should be sent to ai-medici...@med.stanford.edu. The list
is coordinated by Wanda Pratt and Serdar Uckun.
Archives of the mailing list are available by anonymous ftp from
lhc.nlm.nih.gov:/pub/ai-medicine/ [130.14.1.128].
CBR-MED:
cbr...@cs.uchicago.edu
Case-Based Reasoning in Medicine.
To subscribe to the list, send a message to list...@cs.uchicago.edu
with
subscribe CBR-MED <your first name> <your last name>
in the message body. To get the FAQ, include
get cbr-med faq
If you need to speak with a human being, send mail to
Jeff Berger <OWNER-...@cs.uchicago.edu>.
Other medicine lists with some AI content include:
SMDM-L on list...@dartcms1.dartmouth.edu (medical decision making)
MedInf-L on list...@dearn.bitnet (medical data processing and informatics)
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Subject: [9] AI and Statistics
AI and Statistics:
ai-s...@watstat.uwaterloo.ca
All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions,
etc., should be sent to ai-stats...@watstat.uwaterloo.ca
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Subject: [10] Blackboard Architectures
GBB-Users:
gbb-...@bn.cs.umass.edu
The list covers both the commercial GBB framework and the UMass
research prototype (mostly the former these days).
To be added to the list, send mail to
gbb-user...@bn.cs.umass.edu
See also http://www.bbtech.com
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Subject: [11] Business, Economics, Finance (IE-Digest, AT-Finance)
Intelligent Systems for Business and Economics (IE-Digest):
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...@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,
<sur...@cs.ucl.ac.uk>.
Advanced Technology for Finance:
at-finan...@invnext.worldbank.org
The Advanced Technology for Finance Special Interest Group of the INNS
maintains the AT-Finance mailing list for discussions of financial or
economic applications of advanced technology. Discussion sometimes
involves Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, Fuzzy Logic, Statistics,
Complexity theory, Artificial Life, and Nonlinear and Chaos Theory.
To subscribe, send mail to at-financ...@invnext.worldbank.org.
For further information, send mail to the AT-Finance administrator at
<at-fi...@invnext.worldbank.org>.
[This list seems to be defunct. --mk]
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Subject: [12] Cellular Automata
cellular...@think.com (aka c...@think.com)
Gatewayed to the newsgroup comp.theory.cell-automata.
Archived messages may be found at
ftp.think.com:/mail/
in the files ca.archive*.
All other requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems,
questions, etc., should be sent to cellular-aut...@think.com.
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Subject: [13] Classification and Clustering
class-l%sbccvm...@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Mailing list and file server for researchers in classification,
clustering, phylogenetic estimation, and related areas of data
analysis.
To subscribe to CLASS-L you should send a message to the internet address
listserv%sbccvm...@cunyvm.cuny.edu
The body of the message should consist of:
subscribe CLASS-L <your full name>
To have your name removed from the CLASS-L subscriber list, send:
signoff CLASS-L
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Subject: [14] Cognitive Science and Psychology
PSYCGRAD (The Psychology Graduate Student Journal) is an online
journal of technical papers by psychology graduate students and is
edited by a team of 18 graduate student editors. To submit a paper or
article, send email to psyg...@acadvm1.uottawa.ca. To subscribe, send
a message "sub psygrd-j <firstname> <lastname>" to
list...@acadvm1.uottawa.ca or read the newsgroup bit.listserv.psycgrad.
PSYCHE is a refereed electronic journal concerning the
interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of consciousness and its
relationship to the brain. To subscribe, send a message with
"SUBSCRIBE PSYCHE-L Firstname Lastname" in the body to
<list...@iris.rfmh.org>. There is also a web version of the journal at:
<http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/>. Submissions may be sent to the
Executive Editor, Patrick Wilken, Computer Science Dept., Monash
University, Clayton, 3167, AUSTRALIA, <patr...@cs.monash.edu.au>.
A discussion group PSYCHE-D has also been created for discussion of
the contents of the journal and related topics. To subscribe, send a
message with "SUBSCRIBE PSYCHE-D Firstname Lastname" in the body to
<list...@iris.rfmh.org>. The moderator of PSYCHE-D is Patrick Wilken
<patr...@cs.monash.edu.au>.
COGNEURO (Cognitive Neuroscience) is a low volume mailing list for
discussing matters at the interface of cognitive science and
neuroscience. For more information about the list, send mail to
cogneuro...@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov with Subject line "cogneuro:
send info". To subscribe, use the Subject line "cogneuro: subscribe",
and to unsubscribe, "cogneuro: unsubscribe". Only members of the list
may post to the list. The mailing list archives are available by
anonymous ftp from
ego.psych.mcgill.ca:/pub/cogneuro/ [132.206.106.211]
and are maintained by Phil A. Hetherington <h...@blaise.psych.mcgill.ca>.
The list is moderated by Kimball Collins <k...@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov>.
COGPSY is a moderated mailing list concerned with connectionist
research in cognitive psychology. To be added to the list, send mail
to cogpsy-...@phil.ruu.nl. Submissions should be sent to the same
address.
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Subject: [15] Connectionism and Neural Networks
Connectionists:
connect...@cs.cmu.edu
This is a restricted mailing list for discussion of technical
issues relating to neural computation, and for dissemination of
information directly relevant to researchers in the field. Membership
is restricted to students and faculty who are actively involved in
connectionist research.
All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems,
questions, etc., should be sent to connectioni...@cs.cmu.edu.
Neural Networks (moderated):
Neu...@cattell.psych.upenn.edu
Neuron-Digest is a moderated list (in digest form) dealing with all
aspects of neural networks (and any type of network or neuromorphic
system). Topics include both connectionist models (artificial neural
networks) and biological systems ("wetware"). The digest is posted to
comp.ai.neural-nets.
All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems,
questions, etc., should be sent to neuron-...@psych.upenn.edu
Send submissions to neu...@psych.upenn.edu.
Neuron Digest archives are kept in the OSU Neuroprose collection
and in psych.upenn.edu:/pub/Neuron-Digest/ [130.91.68.31]
Back issues of Neuron Digest are now also available from an email
archive server. Send a message with "help" in the subject line to
archive...@psych.upenn.edu for more information.
Hypertext versions of the Neuron Digest are available via the URL
http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/projects/neuralweb/digests/
Neuron-UK:
neur...@mailbase.ac.uk
Neural networks in Europe.
To subscribe, send mail to mail...@mailbase.ac.uk with
subscribe neuron-uk yourname
in the message body.
Users of the Rochester Connectionist Simulator:
simulat...@cs.rochester.edu
simulat...@cs.rochester.edu
All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems,
questions, etc., should be sent to simulato...@cs.rochester.edu.
The simulator is available in ftp.cs.rochester.edu:/pub/packages/simulator/
Users of the Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator:
sn...@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
To be added to the mailing list, send a message to
list...@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de with
subscribe snns <Your Full Name>
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 LIST...@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.
Para subscribirse enviar una nota a LIST...@UTFSM.BITNET con el
siguiente mensaje en el cuerpo de la nota:
SUB RNA nombre apellido
Cells:
ce...@tce.ing.uniroma1.it
A mailing list about cellular neural networks. According to the
list announcement, Cellular Neural Networks are continuous-time
dynamical systems consisting of a grid of processing elements
connected only to neighbours within a given (small) distance. They are
silicon-efficient locally recurrent networks such as artificial retinas.
To subscribe, send mail to Marco Balsi <m...@tce.ing.uniroma1.it>.
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Subject: [16] Constraint Satisfaction
See also comp.constraints. The FAQ is available via WWW as
http://web.cs.city.ac.uk/archive/constraints/constraints.html
and by anonymous ftp as
ftp.cs.city.ac.uk:/pub/constraints/ [138.40.91.9]
The comp.constraints newsgroup is archived in
ftp.cs.city.ac.uk:/pub/constraints/archive/
Questions about the FAQ should be directed to Michael Jampel
<jam...@cs.city.ac.uk>; questions about the archive should be directed
to Andy Whitcroft <an...@cs.city.ac.uk>.
A moderated mailing list for topics related to Constraint
Satisfaction Problems, including algorithms, properties, extensions,
benchmarks, applications, calls for papers, and so on.
To subscribe, send a message to lists...@saturne.cert.fr with
sub csp-list <Your Full Name>
in the message body.
If you prefer to receive a digest once a week, send the listserv
a command like
set csp-list mail digest
after successfully subscribing to the list.
Archives and various informative files can be found by sending the
"index csp-list" and "get" commands to lists...@saturne.cert.fr. See
the explanations in "help" for full details.
For further questions, please get in contact with Thomas Schiex,
CERT-ONERA (GIA), 2 Avenue Edouard Belin, BP 4025, 31055 Toulouse
CEDEX, FRANCE, call +33 61-55-70-65, fax +33 61-55-71-94, or send
email to sch...@cert.fr.
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Subject: [17] Cybernetics and Systems
Cybernetics and Systems:
cybs...@bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu
cybsys-l%bingvmb...@cunyvm.cuny.edu
The Cybernetics and Systems mailing list is an open list serving those
working in or just interested in the interdisciplinary fields of
Systems Science, Cybernetics, and related fields (e.g. General
Systems Theory, Complex Systems Theory, Dynamic Systems Theory,
Computer Modeling and Simulation, Network Theory, Self-Organizing
Systems Theory, Information Theory, Fuzzy Set Theory). The list is
coordinated by members of the Systems Science department of the Watson
School at SUNY-Binghamton, and is affiliated with the International
Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) and the American Society for
Cybernetics (ASC).
To subscribe to cybsys-l you should send a message to the internet address
list...@bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu
listserv%bingvmb...@cunyvm.cuny.edu
The body of the message should consist of:
SUB CYBSYS-L <your full name>
To unsubscribe send the following command: UNSUB CYBSYS-L
Autopoiesis:
Mailing list concerning autopoietic (self-producing) systems, as
described in
H. Maturana and F. Varela in "Autopoiesis and Cognition" (D. Reidel,
1980) and "The Embodied Mind."
To subscribe, send a message to list...@thinknet.net with
sub autopoiesis <your name> <your netaddress>
in the message body.
Complex Systems:
com...@life.anu.edu.au
The Complex Systems List is concerned with all aspects of
Complex Systems, including cellular automata, artificial life,
genetic algorithms, and fractals.
To subscribe, send mail to list...@life.anu.edu.au with
subscribe complex "your name"
in the message body.
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Subject: [18] Diagrams
A mailing list for discussions on (and announcements about activities
concerning) computational and cognitive issues related to diagrams and
imagery. Issues covered include problem solving with diagrammatic
representations, visual reasoning, computational imagery, etc.
To subscribe, send a request to
diagrams...@cs.swarthmore.edu
Maintained by Dr. David Barker-Plummer, Computer Science, Swarthmore College.
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Subject: [19] Distributed AI
DAI-List:
DAI-...@ece.sc.edu
Send subscription requests to DAI-List...@ece.sc.edu.
Back issues archived on ftp.mcc.com [128.62.130.101].
MAAMAW Blackboard (Modeling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World):
Send requests to dema...@lifia.imag.fr
Send submissions to maa...@lifia.imag.fr
Distributed-AI Discussion List:
To subscribe or get help send COMMAND (e.g. HELP) to mail...@mailbase.ac.uk
Send contributions to distrib...@mailbase.ac.uk
For other questions, contact the list owner, lyn...@sx.ac.uk.
Special interest group on cooperating knowledge based systems:
ck...@cs.keele.ac.uk.
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Subject: [20] Expert Systems in Agriculture
ag-exp-l%ndsuvm1...@cunyvm.cuny.edu
To subscribe to ag-exp-l you should send a message to the internet address
listserv%ndsuvm1...@cunyvm.cuny.edu
The body of the message should consist of:
subscribe AG-EXP-L <your full name>
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Subject: [21] Use of Computers in the Fine Arts
fineart%ecs.um...@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.
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Subject: [22] Fuzzy Logic
Both the NAFIPS-L and Fuzzy-Mail mailing lists are now gatewayed to
comp.ai.fuzzy.
NAFIPS Fuzzy Logic Mailing List at Georgia State University:
NAFI...@gsuvm1.gsu.edu
To subscribe send the following command to LIST...@GSUVM1.BITNET:
SUB NAFIPS-L your_full_name
where "your_full_name" is your real name, not your login Id.
Non-BitNet users can join by sending the above command as the only
line in the text/body of a message to LIST...@GSUVM1.GSU.EDU.
(NAFIPS = "North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society")
Postings to this mailing list are automatically archived.
Technical University of Vienna Fuzzy Logic Mailing List:
fuzzy...@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at
To subscribe send the following command to
list...@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at:
SUB FUZZY-MAIL your_full_name
where "your_full_name" is your real name, not your login Id.
This mailing list is two-way gatewayed to the NAFIPS-L list and to
the comp.ai.fuzzy newsgroup.
The listserver also gives access to some files, including the
"Who is Who in Fuzzy Logic" database that is currently under
construction by Robert Fuller <rfu...@finabo.abo.fi>.
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Subject: [23] Game Playing
Go:
List for discussion of programs that play the game of GO. The list
was set up by Fletch <m92...@ecs.ox.ac.uk>.
To subscribe, send mail to computer-...@prg.ox.ac.uk.
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Subject: [24] Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming
Genetic Algorithms Digest:
GA-...@AIC.NRL.NAVY.MIL (moderated; digest format)
Send subscription requests to the -request form of the list
or to gr...@aic.nrl.navy.mil.
Past copies of the digest are archived on
ftp.aic.nrl.navy.mil:/pub/galist/
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:
A mailing list for discussion of Genetic Programming. See Koza's
book for details.
All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems,
questions, etc., should be sent to
genetic-progr...@cs.stanford.edu
The genetic-programming mailing list is archived on
ftp.cc.utexas.edu:/pub/genetic-programming/ along with some code and papers.
Evolutionary Programming Email Digest:
The digest is intended to promote discussions on a wide range of
technical issues in evolutionary optimization, as well as provide
information on upcoming conferences, events, journals, special issues,
and other items of interest to the EP community. Discussions on all
areas of evolutionary computation are welcomed, including artificial
life, evolution strategies, and genetic algorithms. The digest is
meant to encourage interdisciplinary communications.
To subscribe to the digest, send mail to ep-list...@magenta.me.fau.edu
and include the line "subscribe ep-list" in the body of the text. Further
instructions will follow your subscription.
The digest will be moderated by N. Saravanan of Florida Atlantic
University, <sar...@amber.me.fau.edu>.
Evolutionary Computing:
This is a UK discussion group for genetic programming, artificial
life, and other topics in evolutionary computing.
To subscribe, send mail to mail...@mailbase.ac.uk with
join evolutionary-computing <Your Full Name>
in the message body.
GEnetic Algorithms Research Students (GEARS):
gaphd...@dcs.warwick.ac.uk
A mailing list for students conducting research in the field of
genetic algorithms. Example topics may include
"How do I get started in GA research?",
"Has x ever been tried before?"
"Does anyone else get these results?"
"Where can I obtain this paper?"
"My supervisor's annoying me!"
To subscribe, send mail to gaphd-lis...@dcs.warwick.ac.uk.
The list is maintained by Martyn Amos <mar...@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>.
GANN:
ga...@cs.iastate.edu
GANN is a mailing list concerned with the use of evolutionary
algorithms (genetic algorithms, genetic programming and their
variants) in the exploration of the design space of (artificial)
neural network architectures and algorithms. The list will be
semi-moderated to keep the signal to noise ratio as high as possible.
To subscribe to the list, send mail to gann-r...@cs.iastate.edu
with
subscribe
in the Subject line.
Moderated by Dr. Vasant Honavar <hon...@cs.iastate.edu>,
Dr. Mike Rudnick <rud...@cs.tulane.edu> and Mr. Karthik
Balakrishnan <bala...@cs.iastate.edu>.
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Subject: [25] HCI: AI Applications to Human-Computer Interface Design
STUDENTS.CHI:
studen...@xerox.com
The STUDENTS.CHI mailing list has been established by the SIGCHI
Extended Executive Committee (EEC) and Xerox (the corporate sponsor of
the CHI email distribution lists).
The objective of STUDENTS.CHI is to distribute information and
share perspectives of particular concern to students involved in any
aspect of the human factors and computing field. The Human-Computer
Interaction field (HCI) focuses on the research, design, development and
evaluation of human-computer communication and interaction.
Other distribution lists include:
announcements.chi Broadcasts messages of general interest
educators.chi Discussion of education in HCI issues
ii.chi Messages related to intelligent interfaces
intercultural.chi Cross-cultural issues and SIGCHI
socialaction.chi Discussion of CHI-related Social Issues
techprogram.chi Long range planning of CHI conf. program
vision.chi Discussions related to the future of SIGCHI
To be added to a mailing list, send a list of the CHI lists that you
want to receive to Nick Briggs at "Regist...@xerox.com".
AI-CHI:
wiley!ai-...@lll-lcc.llnl.gov
All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions,
etc., should be sent to wiley!ai-chi-...@LLL-LCC.LLNL.GOV.
[This machine seems to be defunct. Anybody knowing the new location
of the mailing list should send mail to mkant+...@cs.cmu.edu.]
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Subject: [26] Knowledge Acquisition
KAW is a list server provided by the University of Amsterdam for
the knowledge acquisition community. It will carry news and
discussion relating to KA activities.
To join the KAW list, send a message with
subscribe KAW <your name>
in the body to ser...@swi.psy.uva.nl. For more information about the
list server, send
help
in the body instead.
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Subject: [27] Knowledge-based Scheduling
sch...@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at
Covers topics related to advanced scheduling techniques and
applications, especially knowledge-based scheduling of manufacturing
processes.
To subscribe, send mail to lists...@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at, with
the following line in the message body:
SUB SCHED-L <name>
where <name> should be replaced by your real name.
If you prefer getting a digest once a week, send additionally a
SET SCHED-L MAIL DIGEST
after subscribing as described above.
If you need to talk to a human being, talk to Sandford Bessler
<Sandford...@kapsch.co.at> or Wolfgang Slany
<w...@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>. Mail sent to
sched...@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at will reach both of them.
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Subject: [28] Knowledge Representation
Conceptual Graphs:
c...@cs.umn.edu
Conceptual Graphs are a general semantic network representation of
knowledge invented by John Sowa. They have the expressive power of
logic, but with an easy mapping to natural language.
See, for example,
John F. Sowa, "Conceptual Structures: Information Processing in
Man and Machine", Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass, 1984.
John Florian Sowa, "Knowledge Representation", forthcoming.
To join, contact tj...@cs.umn.edu.
KQML:
kq...@cs.umbc.edu
Discussion of the conceptual design and use of KQML (Knowledge
Query and Manipulation Language), a protocol for exchanging
information and knowledge.
To subscribe, send mail to majo...@cs.umbc.edu
with
subscribe kqml
in the message body.
The mailing list archives are accessible by WWW to
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/kqml/mail/
The KQML WWW page is
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/kqml/
and is also accessible by anonymous ftp to
ftp.cs.umbc.edu:/pub/kqml/
Knowledge Sharing:
sr...@cs.umbc.edu
For the shared-ontologies part of the Knowledge Sharing Effort of ARPA.
To join send a message to majo...@cs.umbc.edu with
subscribe srkb
in the message body.
Interlingua:
inter...@isi.edu
For the KIF language (Knowledge Interchange Format) of the ARPA
Knowledge Sharing Effort. KIF resembles predicate logic with many
added parentheses, plus some set theory.
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Subject: [29] Logic Programming, Prolog
Prolog and Logic Programming:
pro...@sushi.stanford.edu (general)
prolog-...@sushi.stanford.edu (nitty gritty)
All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems,
questions, etc., should be sent to prolog-...@sushi.stanford.edu
[The host sushi.stanford.edu no longer exists, as of 11/24/92.
Does anybody know the new location of the mailing lists?]
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Jorn Barger
In article <AI_1_85...@cs.cmu.edu> on comp.ai,
Mark Kantrowitz <mkant+...@cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
[..]
>If you think of questions that are appropriate for this FAQ, or would
>like to improve an answer, please send email to mkant+...@cs.cmu.edu.
Yes, Mark, I have a suggestion: how about acknowledging your
longstanding, blatant plagiarism in this:
[...]
>For an online timeline of artificial intelligence milestones, see
> ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/pubs/faqs/ai/timeline.txt
...And a link to my AI pages at www.mcs.net/~jorn/html/ai.html
(which includes a much-shortened version of the original timeline
that you're plagiarizing)???
j