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Article 6242 of comp.ai.philosophy:
>From: steve.rainwater@ocitor.fidonet.org (Steve Rainwater)
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Subject: AI CD-ROM [call for submissions]
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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1992 23:35:09
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                            Call for submissions

                       Artificial Intelligence CD-ROM
                              Volume One 1992

    Network Cybernetics Corporation announces the first volume of an
    annual CD-ROM containing AI related files and information. The AI
    CD-ROM will contain a wide variety of public domain, shareware, and
    other software of special interest to anyone in the AI community.
    The disk will contain 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.  The
    CD-ROM itself will be an ISO-9660 format disk usable on any
    computer system.  The final pricing for the CD-ROM has not been set
    but will be less than $100 retail.  The CD-ROM is scheduled to go
    into replication in mid to late July and should be available in
    August.

    A few of the more interesting items already confirmed for this
    volume 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.

    Among the catagories of files collected so far are examples of 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.  Also present is what may be the largest collection of
    variations on ELIZA ever to found in one place - in every
    programming language imaginable from Lisp to Dbase III.

    The CD-ROM can potentially hold 640 megabytes of files and is not
    yet half full.  Submissions will be accepted until the day the
    premastering process starts.  Many thanks go to the SysOps of The
    Interocitor, Central Neural System, and the ShadeTree bulletin
    boards, who are responsible for many of the current submissions and
    have donated a good deal of time and effort to the project.  We are
    currently looking for more suggestions and submissions of any type
    of file which would be useful to AI experimenters and researchers.
    Acceptable submissions would include executables, source code,
    research papers, tutorials, etc. on any of the following topics:

      Artificial Intelligence
      Artificial Life
      Artificial Neural Networks
      Expert Systems
      Fuzzy Logic
      Genetic Algorithms
      Lisp
      Machine vision
      Machine learning
      Natural Language topics
      Prolog
      Robotics

    Submissions should include information on copyright status and the
    name and address of the author(s) if possible.  Research papers or
    other text files should be in ASCII, Post Script, or some other
    relatively standard format.  If you have a commercial product for
    which you would like to submit a demonstration version or
    descriptive text file, please understand that directly usable
    software, source code, and information will have priority over
    advertising and, as a result, may not be included if space
    constraints become an issue.

    Submissions must be on MS-DOS format 3.5" or 5.25" disk and mailed
    to this address:

     Network Cybernetics Corporation
     2821 Vassar Drive
     Irving, TX 75062

    Questions, comments, suggestions, etc. may be addressed to:

     aicdrom@ocitor.fidonet.org

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