Date: 27 Sep 1985 20:02-CST From: leff%smu.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA Subject: Recent Articles D BOOK15 Applications of Artificial Intelligence II\ %D April 9-11\ %I International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)\ %C Bellingham, Washington D BOOK16 Solid Modeling by Computers From Theory to Applications\ %D SEP 25-27 1983\ %I Plenum Press\ %O (sponsored by) General Motors Research Laboratories of Warren Michigan D BOOK17 Applications in Artificial Intelligence\ %I Petrocelli Books\ %C Princeton, New Jersey\ %E Stephen J. Andriole %A Paul J. Besl %A Ramesh C. Jain %T Three-Dimensional Object Recogniton %J Computing Surveys %D March, 1985 %A Elain Marsh %A Carol Friedman %T Transporting the Linguistic String Project from a Medical to a Navy Domain %J ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems %D APR 1985 %A Jonathan Slocum %A Carol F. Justus %T Transportability to Other Languages: The Natural Language Processing Project in the AI Program at MCC %J ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems %D APR 1985 %A Samuel S. Epstein %T Transportable Natural Language Processing Through Simplicity %J ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems %D APR 1985 %A Bozena Hernisz Thompson %A Frederick B. Thompson %T ASK is Transportable in Half a Dozen Ways %J ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems %D APR 1985 %A Fred J. Damerau %T Problems and Some Solutions in Customization of Natural Language Database Front Ends %J ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems %D APR 1985 %A Carole D. Hafner %A Kurt Golden %T Portability of Syntax and Semantics in Datalog %J ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems %D APR 1985 %A Graham Birtwistle %T Artificial Intelligence, Graphics and Simulation %I Society for Computer Simulation %D JAN 1985 %X $20.00, 119 pages, ISSN 07359276 %A Willard M. Holmes %T Artificial Intelligence and Simulation %I Society for Computer Simulation %D MAR 1985 %X $20.00 75 pp ISBN 0911801057 %A Strategic Incorporated %T Artificial Intelligence: Computer-Aided Instruction (CAI): Markets, Issues, Suppliers and Technology Trends %I Strategic Corporation %D FEB 1985 %C Cupertino, California %X price $1950.00 %A Perkins %A Laffey %A Nguyen %T Rule-based Interpreting of Aerial Photographs Using LES %J BOOK15 %A Captain Robert Milne %T Functional Reasoning for Fault Diagnosis Expert Systems %J BOOK15 %A Broadwell %A Smith %A Barnette %A Staros %T Decision Aiding for Tactical Aircraft %J BOOK15 %A Appelbaum %A Ruspini %T ARIES: A Tool for Inference Under Conditions of Imprecision and Uncertainty %J BOOK15 %A Klinger %T Search Processes for the Application of Artificial Intelligence %J BOOK15 %A Levitt %A Kirby %A Muller %T A Model-Based System for Force Structure Analysis %J BOOK15 %A Hardt %A Rosenberg %T Developing an Expert Ship Message Interpreter-Theoretical and Practical Conclusions %J BOOK15 %A Rosenberg %T ERIK, An Expert Ship Message Interpreter: New Mechanism for Flexible Parsing %J BOOK15 %A A Adams %A Deutsch %A Harrison %T A hierarchical Planner for Intelligent Systems %J BOOK15 %A Obermeier %A de Hilster %T DIID -- A Data-independent Interface for Databases -- The AI Perspective %J BOOK15 %A Haralick %A Shapiro %T Image Segmentation Techniques %J BOOK15 %A Chestek %A MUller %A Chelberg %T Knowledge Based Terrain Analysis %J BOOK15 %A Forman %T Robot Vision for Depalletizing Steel Cylindrical Billets %J BOOK15 %A Bazakos %A Panda %T Stereopsis and Scene Partititoning for Terrain Interpretation %J BOOK15 %A Lenger %A Cipovic %T Shape Recognition of Complex Objects by Syntactical Primitives %J BOOK15 %A Castore %T Solid Modeling, Aspect Graphs and Robot Vision %J BOOK16 %A Lozano-perez %A Brooks %T An Apporoach to Automatic Robot Programming %J BOOK16 %A Descotte %A Latombe %T GARI, an Expert System for Process Planning %J BOOK16 %A Paul Lehner %A Stephen Barth %T Expert Systems on Microcomputers %J BOOK17 %A Roger Schank %A Steven Shwartz %T The Role of Knowledge Engineering in Natural Language Systems %J BOOK17 %A Jaime Carbonnel %T The Role of User Modeling in Natural Language Interface Design %J BOOK17 %A Gerald Hice %A Stephen Andriole %T Artificial Intelligent Videotex %J BOOK17 %A Jean-Daniel Dessimoz %T Vision for Industrial Robots %J BOOK17 %A Dexter Fletcher %T Intelligent Instructional Systems in Training %J BOOK17 %A Jonathan Weiss %T GenTree A Content Oreinted Aid to Decision Problem Structuring %J BOOK17 %A Roger C. Schank %A Peter G. Childers %T The Cognitive Computer: On Language, Learning, and Artificial Intelligence %X available from Library of Computer and Information Science for members price of $14.50 ------------------------------ End of AIList Digest ******************** Date: 27 Sep 1985 20:00-CST From: leff%smu.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA Subject: Recent Articles %A Ruth E. Davis %T Logic Programming and Prolog: A Tutorial %J IEEE Software %D SEP 1985 %P 53-62 %V 2 %N 5 %T Advertisement %A Texas Instruments %J IEEE Spectrum %D SEP 1985 %V 22 %N 9 %P 22-23 %X announces a TV satellite symposium that can be received by various companies using a satellite dish. (On November 13, 1985) %A T. A. Marsland %A F. Popowich %T Parallel Game-Tree Search %J IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence %V PAMI-7 %N 4 %D JUL 1985 %P 442-452 %K alpha-beta %A K. C. Drake %A E. S. McVey %A R. M. Inigo %T Sensing Error for a Mobile Robot Using Line Navigation %J IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence %V PAMI-7 %N 4 %D JUL 1985 %P 485-490 %A A. Lansner %A O. Ekeberg %T Reliability and Speed of Recall in an Associate Network %J IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence %V PAMI-7 %N 4 %D JUL 1985 %P 490-498 %A W. A. Gale %T Book Review: The AI Business: The Commerical Uses of Artificial Intelligence- P. Winston and K. Prendergast, Eds %J IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence %V PAMI-7 %N 4 %D JUL 1985 %P 499 %T FMC Invests $3.5 Million in Knowledge-Based Systems %J IEEE Software %D JUL 1985 %V 2 %N 4 %P 101 %K Teknowledge %X FMC has invested $3.5 million in Teknowledge. %T US, Japan AI firms enter joint ventures %J IEEE Software %D JUL 1985 %V 2 %N 4 %P 101 %K Carnegie Group Intelligent Technology Knowledge Craft Language Craft Jack Geer McDonnell Douglas %X Carnegie Group and Intelligent Technology have signed a joint venture agreement where Intelligent Technology will distribute Knowledge Crat and Language Craft throughout the far east. They will be creating Japanese language versions of these products. Carnegie Group has appointed Jack Geer, formally of the Knowledge Engineering Division of McDonnell Douglas Information Systems Group, as director of marketing. %A Eric Bender %T AI Firms Outgrow Seat-of-the-Pants Style %J ComputerWorld %V 19 %N 35 %D SEP 2, 1985 %P 10+ %K Golden Common Lisp %X general article on Gold Hill Computers, the author of Golden Common Lisp, and Arity computers, the author of a Prolog compiler/interpreter. Golden Common Lisp has sold approximately 3000 copies. They employ 18 people and have a "monthly run rate" of $200,000. They anticipate selling a large memory version for the PC/AT which can use 16M of memory. The largest user of Arity products is software vendors with classic DP shoppers a closer second. Arity Prolog tools were used by one software vendor to develop a system to consult on software installation. %T Vendors Fuel AI Language Debate %J ComputerWorld %V 19 %N 35 %D SEP 2, 1985 %X discusses battle between Prolog and Lisp as standard for AI. %A Charles Babcock %T Experts Beat out Expert Systems at Financial Firm %J ComputerWorld %V 19 %N 35 %D SEP 2, 1985 %P 12+ %K business insurance financial Metropolital Life Roger Jones expert system medical %X Rojer Jones, planning manager in Metropolital Life's corporate systems planning division, said that it is very difficult to encode expert thinking and in many cases the bank prefers training human experts to developing expert systems. He said that experts might lie, be wrong or the business might change. He emphasized that some experts are so possessive of their knowledge that they would covertly sabotage the expert system development process. In the case of one project, it cost more to transcribe the 30 pages of medical information to provide to the expert system than to have an underwriter evaluate the information. Insurance companies are using larger pools of data to determine actuarial tables so that expert systems based on segregated pools (e. g. with men separated from women) would be obsolete. He claims that the systems that were successful (Prospector, Dendral) mapped a very broad knowledge base of simple facts. %T Artificial? Or Intelligent? %J ComputerWorld %V 19 %N 35 %D SEP 2, 1985 %P 18 %X editorial on AI, saying that there is a legitimate demand for AI technology but it will be frought with hard work and that DP staffs can't neglect their day to day work to pursue the interesting AI interests. %A Eric Bender %T Lively Discussions Highlight AI Meet %J ComputerWorld %V 19 %N 35 %D SEP 2, 1985 %P 49+ %K IJCAI %X quotes overhead at IJCAI-85 Beau Sheil of Xerox Artificial Intellgience Systems - AI works best with a lot of information that can be manipulated at a shallow level Xerox has received an order for 1000 of its 1185 work stations and is flooded with requests at similar volume. Alan Kay of Apple said "we need to do problem finding," not problem solving. He also griped about logic programming and parallel processing. He made a comment that if the Intel 80286 is a weak architecture, what is it when you have 16 of them? [probably a veiled reference to Intel's Cosmic Cube.] Larry Levesque of Carnegie Group said that AI products and demos are tools and they don't scale up. %T Secure Xerox Workstation Out %J ComputerWorld %V 19 %N 35 %D SEP 2, 1985 %P 63+ %X Lisp Machine %K Xerox announced the 1108-105T, an AI work station that meeets standards for release of electronic radiation that can be tapped for use in National Security and other places. It also announced an 1108 series of AI work stations that can interface with IBM and Multibus equipment. %T Systems and Peripherals %J ComputerWorld %V 19 %N 35 %D SEP 2, 1985 %K digitization machine vision Industrial Vision Systems %X Industrial Vision Systems has announced a 400 dot/in digitizing scanner capable of handling up to 36 in wide paper. It costs $79,000. %A John Gallant %T Will IBM Take AI by Storm %J Computer World %D SEP 9, 1985 %V 19 %N 36 %P 61+ %K IJCAI-85 %X general article on IBM's role in AI %T Inference Enhances ART Development Environment %J Computer World %D SEP 9, 1985 %V 19 %N 36 %P 62 %X improvements to Inference Corp's Automated Reasoning Tool include: 1) improved color graphics including a away of attaching graphics primitives to rules, 2) a pseudo-natural language development enviornment which allows a developer to build his knowledge-base using an English-like syntax 3) a mixed initiative processing environment allowing the expert system to prompt for information while reacting to user inquiriers 4) separately compilable rule files %T Software and Services %J ComputerWorld %D SEP 9, 1985 %V 19 %N 36 %P 69 %K Lucid Sun Common Lisp %X Sun Microsystem has announced a version of LUCID, a Common LISP implementation for its work stations costing $375.00. %A Sol Libes %T Bytelines %J Byte %D SEP 1985 %P 420 %V 10 %N 9 %X Kurzweil Applied Intelligence speech recognition KVS-3000 %X Kurzweil has introduced a KVS-3000 that can handle 1000 words continuous speech with 100 per cent accuracy. It is selling at $3000.00 in quantity and comes in PC, multibus and RS232C versions. It is speaker adaptive and its performance increases the more it talks with the same user. %A Jean Renard Ward %%A Barry Blesser %T Interactive recognition of Handprinted Characters for Computer Input %J IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications %V 5 %N 9 %P 24-37 %K Character Recogniton Pencept %X discusses the human interface issues once you have character recognition on your computer; i. e. how best to interface handwritten character recognition with your product. %T Hitachi to Spend $40 million in U. S. on High-Tech Gear %J Electronic News %D SEP 2, 1985 %V 31 %N 1565 %P 10 %K Tektronix %X Hitachi has spent $700,000 at Tektronix which includes an undisclosed amount of "artificial intelligence products." %T Raytheon Acquires Stake in Lisp Machines %J Electronic News %D AUG 26, 1985 %P 20+ %V 31 %N 1564 %K energy venture capital military electronics %X Raytheon invested 4.5 million dollars into Lisp Machine Inc. through its new venture capital subsidiary. Lisp Machine Inc. has raised a total of twelve million dollars in a fourth round of financing. Raytheon hopes to be using Lisp Machine products in its military electronics and energy business. Ti currently owns 9 percent of LMI. other investors include Abingworth plc, InterVEN, Genesis Venture Capital, Manufacturers Hanover Trust. %A Eric Bender %T Artificial Intelligence: On the Road to Reality %J ComputerWorld %D AUG 26, 1985 %V 19 %N 34 %K IJCAI-85 %X summary and analysis of events at IJCAI-85 %X Many vendors continued development work up until the demonstrations themselves and there were more bugs than typical at a computer conference vendor exhibition. Beau Sheil of Xerox stated that in order for AI to work at a company, the company has to have long term horizons, a real clear idea about its needs and a history of applying technology to solve those problems. %A Eric bender %T IJCAI sees HP, Intellicorp moves in AI programming %J ComputerWorld %D AUG 26, 1985 %V 19 %N 34 %P 10+ %K Hewlett-Packard Common Lisp HP 9000 Xerox Palladian Software financial %X Hewlett-Packard will have a Common Lisp development environment running on its HP 9000 series 300 family of workstations. It will have a system called Browsers "that will automatically have appropriate tools for the task at hand." Xerox will be announcing a Common Lisp in second quarter 186. Intellicorp announced a system to allow personal computers to act as delivery vehicles for expert systems. Initial versions will use VAX systems as hosts and IBM PC's and the Macintosh as delivery vehicles. Palladian Software announced its financial advisor expert system. It runs on Symbolics and Texas Instruments Lisp Machines and communicates with IBM and DEC systems. A system with four work stations runs for $95,000. %A Eric Bender %T Symbolics, Xerox offer enhanced AI workstations %J ComputerWorld %D AUG 26, 1985 %V 19 %N 34 %P 11 %K Lisp Machine %X Xerox announced an 1185 which costs $9.995 and runs Interlisp-D software and serves as a delivery vehicle. They also announced an 1186 development system with 3.6M of internal memory and 80M of hard disk storage for $15,865. %T Aion offers AI development system %J ComputerWorld %D AUG 26, 1985 %V 19 %N 34 %P 55 %K expert system microcomputer venture capital %X Aion announced a new expert system for the IBM Pc written in Pascal. They anticipate selling an IBM-370 version for first-quarter 1986. They are focussing on the traditional DP environment. They received 2.4 million in venture capital. %T Microcomputers %J ComputerWorld %D AUG 26, 1985 %V 19 %N 34 %P 61 %K The Institute for Scientific Analysis Small-X microcomputer expert system %X The Instuitute for Scientific Analysis introduced Small-X, an expert system development tool for the IBM-PC. It costs $249.95 and can control or exchange data with other applications running under Microsoft. %A S. Jerrold Kaplan %T Designing a Portable Natural Language Database Query System %J ACM Transactions on Database Systems %V 9 %N 1 %D MAR 1984 %P 1-19 %A C. Hornsby %A H. C. Leung %T The Design and Implementation of a Flexible Retrieval Language for a Prolog Database System %J SIGPLAN %V 20 %N 9 %D SEP 1985 %P 43-51 %X implementation of a database management system in PROLOG %A Donna Raimondi %T Ansa offers Paradox IBM-compatible relational DBMS %J ComputerWorld %V 19 %N 38 %P 12 %D SEP 23, 1985 %K data base system interface microcomputer heuristic query optimization Ansa Software Paradox Sevin Rosen Management %X A data base management package which uses machine reasoning to evaluate user requests and write programs for the user. It uses query by example, program synthesis and heuristic query optimization techniques %A Jeffry Beeler %T Symantec package out %J ComputerWorld %V 19 %N 38 %P 12 %D SEP 23, 1985 %K Symantec natural language microcomputer data base system interface %X a new product which uses natural language to interface with a database %T Software and Services %J ComputerWorld %V 19 %N 38 %D SEP 23, 1985 %P 50 %K Franz Common Lisp flavors %X a new release of Franz Lisp, Opus 42, is out which supports Lisp flavors, functions returning multiple values, multiple name spaces in the Lisp environment, hash table objects, history mechanism. It is available for Apollo, Sun, Cadmus, Masscomp, Tektronix, Harris and Digital equipment Corp. $5,000 first copy, $1,000 subsequent copies %A Craig D. Rose %T R&D Race Tightens for Fifth-Generation Computers %J Electronics %D SEP 23, 1985 %V 58 %N 38 %P 30-31 %X Attempts to compare and contrast the Fifth Generation efforts of Europe, Japan and the U. S. The Strategic Computing Initiative (SCI) of DARPA will spend one billion dollars over ten years. Europe's Esprit program is being funded with 1.2 billion for five years and Britain is spending $455 million over the same time span for the Alvey project. Japan's Fifth Generation Project is funded at twenty to thirty million dollars per year. Japanese companies are spending in total about five times as much money as ICOT. The Canadian Society for Fifth Generation computing has requested fourty million dollars over three years. %T Machine Vision Maker Raises Three Million Dollars %J Electronics %D SEP 23, 1985 %V 58 %N 38 %P 41 %X Itran venture capital inspection General Motors %X Itran Corp has raised three million dollars in a new round of venture financing. Itran markets systems that inspects parts on factory floors. It sells systems to General Motors. %A Tobias Naegele %T How Rensing Got His Robot Working %J Electronics %D SEP 23, 1985 %V 58 %N 38 %P 42 %K Renco Electronics %X describes experiences of a small firm in installing robots in their factory. %T AI Tools Automate Software Translation %J Electronics %D SEP 23, 1985 %V 58 %N 38 %P 59-61 %K Lexeme Michael Shamos computer language translation conversion expert system %X Lexeme sells an expert system that translates from one computer language to another. It supports Ada and C as target language and accepts input of Fortran, PL/1, Bliss and SPL. They are developing COBOL, BASIC, Algol, Jovial and CMS-2 versions. They also handle conversions from one language to another. There is a separate page on the personalities and stories of the founders. [Michael Shamos, the president, is also well known for his work in computational geometry. --Leff] He managed to pick up a law degree as well as a Ph. D. in computer science! ------------------------------ Date: 24 Nov 1985 19:55-CST From: leff%smu.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA Subject: Recent Articles %A Christine McGeever %T Databases: Artificial Intelligence Breeds Competition for Established Vendors %J Infoworld %V 7 %N 43 %D OCT 28, 1985 %K Paradox Symantec Q&A ANSA micro database %X Describes two database management systems which run on IBM PC's and which are allegedly using Artificial Intelligence. Paradox is a system which uses Query by Example with an Artifical Intelligence system that optimizes the query. Q&A uses an English front end and also uses query by example. %A Keith Thompson %T Paradox: Powerful Pricey, and Easy %J Infoworld %V 7 %N 43 %D OCT 28, 1985 %K Database query by example micro %X review of the Paradox system which uses artificial intelligence to optimize queries. It earned three diskettes out of five and had the following ratings performance: very good documentation: satisfactory ease of learning: very good ease of use: very good error handling: poor support: satisfactory value: satisfactory %A Dick Pountain %T Computers as Consultants %J BYTE %P 367-376 %V 10 %N 10 %D OCT 1985 %K Expert-Ease Tess EMYCIN micro Expert Edge %X reviews expert-ease (a decision tree generating system) and Tess which is an EMYCIN like program. %A Kenneth W. Kerber %T Review of Computer Culture: The Scientific, Intellectual and Social Impact of the Computer %J BYTE %P 57-58 %V 10 %N 10 %D OCT 1985 %X This book includes papers by John McCarthy (on the need for commonsense in expert sytems), Pamela McCorduck (on the promise of fifth generation computers), Seymour Papert (on cognitive reasoning), Daniel Dennett (on using computers to extend senses and imagination) and Feigenbaum (on automated knowledge acquisiton in expert systems) %A B. W. Wah %A C. F. Yu %T Stochastic Modeling of Branch-and-Bound Algorithms with Best-First Search %J IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering %V SE-11 %N 9 %D SEP 1985 %P 922-923 %X reprint of paper from Compsac 82 %A B. P. McCune %A R. M. Tong %A J. S. Dean %A D. G. Shapiro %T RUBRIC: A System for Rule-Based Information Retrieval %J IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering %V SE-11 %N 9 %D SEP 1985 %P 939-944 %A D. Keirsey %A J. Mitchell %A B. Bullock %A T. Nussmeier %A D. Y. Tseng %T Autonomous Vehicle Control Using AI Techniques %J IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering %D SEP 1985 %V SE-11 %N 9 %P 9086-991 %A Richard Fikes %A Tom Kehler %T The Role of Frame Based Representation in Reasoning %J CACM %D SEP 1985 %V 28 %N 9 %P 904-920 %K STAR_PLAN satellite alarms KEE %X describes STAR-PLAN which uses alarms to wake certain parts of an expert system when conditiosn requires its analysis. Also discusses frames in general and KEE. %A Frederick Hayes-Roth %T Rule-Based Systems %J CACM %D SEP 1985 %V 28 %N 9 %P 921-932 %A Michael R. Genesereth %A Matthew L. Ginsbert %T Logic Programming %J CACM %D SEP 1985 %V 28 %N 9 %P 933-941 %X prolog %A James R. Slagle %A Henry Hamburger %T An Expert System for a Resource Allocation Problem %J CACM %D SEP 1985 %V 28 %N 9 %P 994-1004 %K Battle %X describes a system for deciding how to allocate weapons. Goes into detail on its variation of A* to come up with a good approximation to the optimum configuration and how values are propagated through the network. The techniques described could be used in such applications as allocating advertising time in dealing with competitors in the marketplace. %A S. D. Morgera %T Information Theoretic Covariance Complexity and its Relation to Pattern Recognition %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %D SEP/OCT 1985 %V SMC-15 %N 5 %P 608-619 %A A. Goshtasby %A G. C. Stockman %T Point Pattern Matching Using Convex Hull Edges %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %D SEP/OCT 1985 %V SMC-15 %N 5 %P 631-636 %A R. Jakubowski %T Extraction of Shape Features for Syntactic Recongition of Mechanical Parts %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %D SEP/OCT 1985 %V SMC-15 %N 5 %P 642-651 %T See $980M Sales in Vision Systems in 90 %J Electronic News %D SEP 16, 1985 %V 31 %N 1567 %P 21 %X Frost and Sullivan predicts a 980 million market in vision systems in 1990 with 480 million of which would be inspection and 200 million for identification and sorting %A Paul J. Besl %A Ramesh C. Jain %T Three-Dimensional Object Recognition %J ACM Computing Surveys %V 17 %N 1 %D MAR 1985 %P 75-145 %T New Configuration Added, Price Cut, For Processor %J Computer %P 122 %D MAY 1985 %V 18 %N 5 %K Symbolics lisp machine %X Symbolics announced a new configuration of its 3640 processor, the 3640-1711 which has two 140 MB Winchester disks and costs $71,080 and with one 140MB hard drive it costs $65,900. 2MB add-in board is $9,900 and an eight megabyte add-in memory board is $35, 000. %T TI Offers Personal Consultant Version %J ComputerWorld %D SEP 16, 1985 %V 19 %N 37 %P 61 %K micro %X discusses the new Personal Consultant Plus at $2950 and the new price for the old Personal Consultant of $950.00 %T Microcomputers %J ComputerWorld %D SEP 16, 1985 %V 19 %N 37 %P 66 %K RuleMaster Radian micro %X discusses enhancements to its Rulemaster with new screen and menu handling facilities. %A Takehisa Kondoh %T Japanese Consortium Set %J ComputerWorld %D SEP 16, 1985 %V 19 %N 37 %P 85 %K Nissin Structural Planning Institute JGC Intelligence Engineering Research Institute German Center for Comptuer Science %X describes a consortium called Intelligence Engineering Research Institute to be formed by European, US and Japanese companies. %T Insight to Interpret with Expert Reports on Mac %J Infoworld %V 7 %N 37 %D SEP 16, 1985 %P 61 %K Macintosh micro Layered Inc. accounting %X describes an accounting system with an AI program to help interpret the reports %T A Device that Heads Off Road Collision %J Business Week %D SEP 2, 1985 %P 77 %K Vehicle Radar Safety Systems, Inc. %X Describes a system to warn drivers of impending collisons. It does not falsely alarm for road signs and radar overpasses. %T Frey Associations to Exhibit Enhanced Version of Themis %J DEC HARDCOPY %V 14 %N 5 %P 94 %D MAY 1985 %K natural language database %X this is one of those systems that allow the user to give his queries in English to the database. It supports 1000 word vocabulary which can be expanded by the user. It works with Oracle's Relational Database Managmenet System and VaX Datatrieve. It sells for $24,000. %T Natural Language Software Builds Mainframe Databases %J ElectronicsWeek %D JAN 7, 1985 %V 58 %N 2 %P 49 %K Artificial Intelligence Corporation Intellect %X They announced Intellect/SX which allows users to set up their own lexicons, databases and manipulate their own databases. %T Bureaucracy Spawns Entrepreneurs %J High Technology %D FEB 1985 %P 20 %V 5 %N 2 %K Lockheed pilot airplain Getex navigation %X Describers AI system to airplane navigation making it possible to have a one pilot airplane. %A C. P. Neuman %A V. D. Tourassis %T Discrete Dynamic Robot Models %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 2 %D MAR/APR 1985 %P 193-203 %A J. D. Wolter %A R. A. Volz %A Anthony C. Woo %T Automatic Generation of Gripping Positions %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 2 %D MAR/APR 1985 %P 204-212 %A B. K. Kim %A K. G. Shin %T Minimum-Time Path Planning for Robot Arms and Their Dynamics %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 2 %D MAR/APR 1985 %P 213-223 %A R. A. Brooks %A T. Lozano-Perez %T A Subdividsion Algorithm in Configuration Space for Findpath with Rotation %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 2 %D MAR/APR 1985 %P 224-233 %A J. Rasmussen %T The Role of Hierarchical Knowledge Represenation in Decisionmaking and System Management %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 2 %D MAR/APR 1985 %P 223-243 %A Mark R. Laff %A Brent Halpert %T SW 2 - An Object-based Programming Environment %J SIGPLAN 85 Symposium on Language Issues in Programming Environments %C Seattle, Washingto/n %D JUN 25-28, 1985 %I ACM %P 1-11 %A James Purtilo %T Polylith: An Environment to Support Management of Tool Interfaces %J SIGPLAN 85 Symposium on Language Issues in Programming Environments %C Seattle, Washingto/n %D JUN 25-28, 1985 %I ACM %P 12-18 %K Macsyma %X Describes a front end for Macsyma to allow interfacing it with various other tools as well as general concepts for front-ends. %A Nissim Francez %A Shalom Goldenberg %A Ron Y. Pinter %A Michael Tiomkin %A Shalom Tsur %T An Environment for Logic Program %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 2 %D MAR/APR 1985 %P 179-190 %A Mark Moriconi %A Dwight F. Hare %T PegaSys: A System for Graphical Explanation of Program Designs %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 2 %D MAR/APR 1985 %P 148-160 %A Henryk Jan Komorowski %A Shigeo Omori %T A Model and an Implementation of a Logic Programming Environment %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 2 %D MAR/APR 1985 %P 191-198 %A Stephen Fickas %T Design Issues in a Rule-Based System %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 2 %D MAR/APR 1985 %P 208-215 %A P. E. Lehner %A M. A. Probus %A M. E. Donnell %T Building Decison Aids: Exploiting the Synergy Between Decison Analysis and Artificial Intelligence %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 4 %D JUL/AUG 1985 %P 469-474 %A Y. J. Tejwani %A R. A. Jones %T Machine Recognition of Partial Shapes Using Feature Vectors %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 4 %D JUL/AUG 1985 %P 504-516 %A A. L. Porter %A F. A. Rossini %A J. Eshelman-Bell %A D. Jenkins %A D. J. Cancelleri %T Industrial Robots - A Strategic Forecast Using the Technological Delivery System Approach %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 4 %D JUL/AUG 1985 %P 521-526 %A S. B. Ahuja %A J. A. Reggia %T Automated Classification of Complex Errors in Discrete Sequential Tasks %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 4 %D JUL/AUG 1985 %P 527-531 %A S. Gaglio %A R. Minciardi %A P. P. Puliafto %T Multiperson Decision Aspects in the Construction of Expert Systems %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 4 %D JUL/AUG 1985 %P 536-539 %A Y. Ichikawa %A N. Ozaki %T A Heuristic Planner and an Executive for Mobile Robot Control %J IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics %V SMC-15 %N 4 %D JUL/AUG 1985 %P 558-563 %A Charles L. Cohen %T AI Comes to the Aid of Pencil Pushers %J Electronics %P 58 %N 14 %D AUG 26, 1985 %P 18-19 %K pattern recognition VLSI Toshiba Expert System %X Describes an expert system that transforms pencil sketches of integrated circuit masks to computer compatible sketches. This was developed by Toshiba Corporation. It uses 2000 rules and a structure-matching method using model-based segmentation and hypothesis verfication. %A Alexander Wolfe %T How NASA Will Use AI in Space %J Electronics %D SEP 16, 1985 %P 32-327 %V 58 %N 37 %K expert systems space shuttle space station Empress LOX %K AI applications at NASA management of space resources controlling experiments, assisting in repairng planning and scheduling system for payload processing diagnostic system for loading liquid oxygen into the shuttle scheduling the operations of the tracking and data-relay satellite %A James Clifford %A David S. Warren %T Formal Semantics for Time in Databases %J ACM Transactions on Database Systems %D JUN 1983 %V 8 %N 2 %P 214-254 %A R. Emeett Carlyle %T Can AI Save Cobol %J Datamation %D SEP 15 %D SEP 15, 1985 %V 31 %N 18 %K expert systems T. Capers Jones maintenance %X T. Capers Jones has developed expert systems that will structure COBOL that produce code that takes 25 to 50 percent less time to maintain. %A Neil C. Rowe %T Top-down Statistical Estimatation on a Database %J SIGMOD Record %V 13 %N 4 %P 135-145 %K expert systems %X This system uses a set of general-purpose statistics on a database and then a set of inference rules to estimate other arbitrary statistics requested by users %A Janet L. Koldoner %T Indexing and Retrieval Strategies for Natural Language Fact Retrieval %J ACM Transactions on Database Systems %V 8 %N 3 %P 434-464 %D SEP 1983 %K Cyrus information retrieval %T Xerox Adds Low-End Workstations %J Electronic News %V 31 %N 1566 %D SEP 9, 1985 %P 37 %K lisp machines %X Describes new 1185 and 1186 with prices form 10,000 to 19,ppp. The 10,000 gets you an 1185 with 1.1 Mbytes RAM, 10 Mbyte Winchester and a 15 inch display. The 19 grand gets you 3.6M bytes RAM, 80 Mbyte disk and 19 inch display. %T Tektronix Unveils 2 New AI Systems %J Electronic News %V 31 %N 1566 %P 39 %T Kurzweil Names Financial Chief %J Electronic News %V 31 %N 1566 %P 39 %K Bernard F. Bradstreet %X Kurzweill Applied Intelligence named Bernard F. Bradstreet, a former Prime Computer vice president and treasurer, as vice president of finance and administration. %T Thoughtware Set To Buy Lightyear %J Electronic News %V 31 %N 1566 %D SEP 9, 1985 %P 52 %X Thoughtware, a delvoloper of decision support systems has agreed to acquire Lightyear, Inc. %T Raster, TI Sign Marketing PACT %J Electronic News %V 31 %N 1566 %D SEP 9, 1985 %P 42 %K Lisp Machine Graphics Explorer %X Raster Technologies has agreed to market its color graphics system for TI's Explorers. %T Expert System Language May Improve 1-2-3 %J InfoWorld %D NOV 4, 1985 %V 7 %N 44 %P 3 %K Teknowledge Lotus user interface expert system error correction M.1 %X Teknowledge is developing an M.1 front end to Lotus 1-2-3 which will distinguish semantic errors from syntax errors and to allow the user to express logic relationships. It also provides a query by example front end. M.1 is being rewritten in the C programming language. %T Advertisement %J InfoWorld %D NOV 4, 1985 %V 7 %N 44 %P 28 %X Advertisement for AI:Typist which is a $79.00 word processing system that has a spelling corrector that checks words as they are entered. Billed as "AIRUS-A Technology is so new it's still baffling the experts." %T Lisp Machines Adds 2 New Directors %J Electronic News %V 31 %N 1576 %D NOV 18, 1985 %P 27 %X Lisp Machines has added two new people to its board of directors: George J. Demos and Harold Shattuck. Art Marks has replaced Neil Bond on the board. %T Robotic Vision Taps Marketing V-P %J Electronic News %V 31 %N 1576 %D NOV 18, 1985 %P 90 %K Robotic Vision Systems %X Robotic Vision Systems Systems reported a loss for the second quarter of $319,000 compared with a $299,00 loss in the 1984 period. The sales for the three months was 2.7 million up from 1.3 million. Robotic Visions sell three-dimension vision-based robotic systems. They also named L. Knox Johnstone, formerly marketing manager of Robot Defense Systems, as vice president of marketing. %T System for Automated Troubleshooting %J NASA Tech Briefs %D Winter 1985 %V 9 %N 4 %P 166-167 %K maintenance expert system %X Describes software done by Leonard Friedman of Caltech in the area of diagnostic system for electromechanical mechanisms %T Automatic Guidance for Remote Manipulator %J NASA Tech Briefs %D Winter 1985 %V 9 %N 4 %P 68-69 %K robotics %X System based on maintaining a mirror on the object to be grasped with detectors and light sources on the end effector of the robot. It is patented (NO. 3,888,362) %A James A. Marti.n %T Nixdorf Expert System Shell Out %J ComputerWorld %D NOV 4, 1985 %V 19 %N 44 %P 31 %K Prolog MProlog Twaice Logicware %X Nixdorf announced an expert system shell based on Logicware's Prolog. The system supports a taxonomy model, rule compiler and a general lease is $70,000. %T News from the Industry Front %J ComputerWorld %D NOV 4, 1985 %V 19 %N 44 %P 31 %K Inference Carnegie Group Ford Motor %X Ford Motor purchased interest in Inference Corp and Carnegie Group.. These represent $14 million each. %A T. M. Mitchell %A L. I. Steinberg %A J. S. Shulman %T A Knowledge-Based Approach to Design %J IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence %V PAMI-7 %N 5 %D SEP 1985 %P 502-510 %K VLSI Design %A G. Kahn %A S. Nowlan %A J. McDermott %T Strategies for Knowledge Acquisition %J IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence %V PAMI-7 %N 5 %D SEP 1985 %P 511-522 %K maintenance MUD oil extraction MORE %X describes a general theory for when a domain is suited for diagnostic expert system based on shallow knowledge and how to construct the base. Then this was automated in a tool called MORE %A R. Rada %T Gradualness Facilitates Knowledge Refinement %J IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence %V PAMI-7 %N 5 %D SEP 1985 %P 523-530 %X describes a method to determine the weights of rules in expert systems based on the closeness of answers of the expert systems on the given answers %A A. Sathi %A M. S. Fox %A M. Greenberg %T Representaton of Activity Knowledge for Project Management %J IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence %V PAMI-7 %N 5 %D SEP 1985 %P 531-552 %A P. K. Fink %A J. C. Lusth %A J. W. Duran %T A General Expert System Design for Diagnostic Problem Solving %J IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence %V PAMI-7 %N 5 %D SEP 1985 %P 553-560 %X describes a structure to which any domain that needs to be diagnosed can be described as. This is for diagnostic system based on deep reasoning. %A P. S. Rosenbloom %A J. E. Laird %A J. McDermott %A A. Newell %A E. Orciuch %T R1-Soar: An Experiment in Knowledge-Intensive Programming in a Problem-Solving Architecture %J IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence %V PAMI-7 %N 5 %D SEP 1985 %P 561-569 %A D. M. McKeown, Jr. %A W. A. Harvey, Jr. %A J. McDermott %T Rule-Based Interpretation of Aerial Imagery %J IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence %V PAMI-7 %N 5 %D SEP 1985 %P 570-585 %K vision %A C. V. Apte %A S. M. Weiss %T An Approach to Expert Control of Interactive Software Systems %J IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence %V PAMI-7 %N 5 %D SEP 1985 %P 586-591 %K well-log geology ELAS %X describes a system for dynamic selection and interpretation fo appropriate programs and parameters in the area of well-log analysis %A Yizong Cheng %A King-Sun Fu %T Conceptual Clustering in Knowledge Organization %J IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence %V PAMI-7 %N 5 %D SEP 1985 %P 592-598 %K Huato traditional Chinese medicine %X describes an expert system for "traditional Chinese medicine." ------------------------------ End of AIList Digest ********************