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Subject:  Alife Digest Volume #071

                       Alife Digest, Number 071
                     Tuesday, February 11th 1992

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Today's Topics:

                   Calendar of Alife-related Events
                   ACK; BUG SOFTWARE FOR IBM CLONES
                      Gordon Research Conference
                     Submission for Distribution
               International Symp. on AI CANCUN,MEXICO

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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 92 13:35:16 -0800
From: liane@cs.ucla.edu (Liane Gabora)
Subject: Calendar of Alife-related Events

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 CALENDAR OF ALIFE-RELATED ACTIVITIES:

 Canadian AI Conference, Vancouver                          May 11-15, 1992
 Artificial Life III, Santa Fe                              June 15-19, 1992
 10th National Conference on AI, San Jose                   Jul 12-17, 1992
 14th Conf of the Cognitive Science Soc, Bloomington IN     July 29-Aug 1, 1992
 ECAI 92, 10th European Conference on AI                    Aug  3-7,  1992
 13th International Congress on Cybernetics, Belgium        Aug 24-28, 1992
 Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, Brussels             Sep 28-30, 1992
 State of the Art in Ecological Modelling, Kiel Germany     Sep 28-Oct 2, 1992

 (Send announcements of other activities to alife@cognet.ucla.edu)

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Date: Tue, 4 Feb 92 01:00 GMT
From: Hortideas Publishing <0004972767@mcimail.com>
Subject: ACK; BUG SOFTWARE FOR IBM CLONES

PUT A BUG IN YOUR PC!

  It isn't dangerous -- just use the Nervous System Construction Kit for IBM 
PC/XT/AT/386/486 compatibles. Based on the ideas of Dr. Randall Beer at Case 
Western Reserve University (see his book INTELLIGENCE AS ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR, 
1990, or AMERICAN SCIENTIST, Sept.-Oct. 1991), the Kit simulates a simplified 
cockroach with a network of fairly realistically modelled neurons. The six-
legged bug (with nearly 80 neurons) walks around its "world" with appropriate 
gait patterns, "wanders" pseudorandomly, follows edges of obstacles, moves 
toward "food" when "hungry," "eats," and manages to avoid conflicts among its 
various behavioral modes. On a 12-MHz 286, the simulation runs as fast as 1/6 
real time; an animation option allows simulation runs to be recorded and 
played back at much higher speeds.
  The Kit programs also allow easy "fill-in-the-blank" user specification of 
arbitrary connections of up to more than 100 neurons of various types, and (by 
modifying the INCLUDED source code and recompiling with Turbo C or C++) 
arbitrary specification of modelled "organism" and "world" physics -- so you 
can design your own networks and even entire creatures-in-environments. All 
programs may be modified and distributed freely. Note: full understanding of 
the programs will require reference to Dr. Beer's book.
  For a copy of NSCK Version 3, send $10.00 (U.S. $15.00 outside North 
America). Requires EGA or VGA graphics. Documentation is provided on-disk. 
Please specify 360-KB, 1.2-MB, or 720-KB disk format.
  ORDER FROM: Pat and Greg Williams, 460 Black Lick Rd., Gravel Switch, KY 
40328; phone 606-332-7606; MCI Mail 497-2767 (HortIdeas Publishing).

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Date: 03 Feb 92 23:31:03 EST
From: "A.T.Winfree" <73257.2443@compuserve.com>
Subject: Gordon Research Conference

The Gordon Research Conference on Theoretical Biology and
Biomathematics 8-12 June 1992 in NH will include a session on
Evolution and Artificial Life. The speakers are Thomas Ray, William
Hamilton, and Joel Cohen, chaired by Arthur Winfree.
For information contact Steven Strogatz at STROGATZ@bourbaki.mit.edu
or Leah Edelstein-Keshet at USERKESH@mtsg.ubc.ca. 

GRC announcements will also appear in Science magazine this spring.


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Date:         Wed, 05 Feb 92 10:04:35 MEZ
From: Alexander Mikhailov <CA09%DLRVMLA.BITNET@mvs.oac.ucla.edu>
Subject:      Submission for Distribution

Preprint available:

ARTIFICIAL LIFE: AN ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE

by Alexander Mikhailov (Dept. Theoretical Physics, University of Bielefeld,
& German AeroSpace Research Establishment)

Please send requests to: Dr. A.Mikhailov, DLR, W-7101 Hardthausen 3, Germany
e-mail address: ca09 @ dlrvmla.bitnet


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Date:         Thu, 06 Feb 92 12:55:43 CST
From: "Centro de Inteligencia Artificial(ITESM)" <ISAI@tecmtyvm.mty.itesm.mx>
Subject:      International Symp. on AI CANCUN,MEXICO

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       INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
    The Artificial Intelligence Technology Transfer Conference

            APPLICATIONS IN MANUFACTURING AND ROBOTICS

                      December 7-11, 1992
                        Cancun, Mexico

                 C A L L   F O R    P A P E R S

     The Fifth International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence
     will be held in Cancun Mexico on December 7-11, 1992.
     The Symposium is sponsored by the ITESM (Instituto Tecnologico
     y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey) in cooperation with the
     International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Inc.,
        the American Association for Artificial Intelligence,
     the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence,
    The European Coordinating Committee for AI, the Sociedad Mexicana
    de Inteligencia Artificial and IBM of Mexico.

     Papers from all countries are sought that:
(1)  Present applications of artificial intelligence technology
     to the solution of problems in Manufacturing, robotics and
     related areas.
(2)  Describe research on techniques to accomplish such applications,
(3)  Address the problem of transfering the AI Technology especially
     in the context of the Free Trade Agreement among Canada, USA
     and Mexico.

    Areas of application include but are no limited to:
       plant design, process planning, product design, scheduling,
       assembly, production control, computer-integrated manufacturing,
       inspection, qulality control, transportation problems, client
       support, distribution, marketing, decision support, process
       control, motion control, supervisory and expert control, alarm
       diagnosis, equipment maintenance, energy savings and pollution
       control.

    Technology Transfer includes but is not limited to:
       strategies for introducing and institutionalizing AI technology,
       human resources formation in AI, justification of AI projects,
       cooperation programs in the context of the Free Trade Agreement,
       impact of AI and automation in the social environment of the
       company.

   AI techniques include but are not limited to:
       computer vision and digital image processing, speech and natural
       language understanding, pattern recognition, machine learning,
       motion planning, neural nets, genetic algorithms, heuristic
       search, uncertainty management, task planning, parallelism,
       expert systems, knowledge engineering, knowledge acquisition
       and representation, and case-based, geometric, temporal, spatial,
       nonmonotonic, common sense and probabilistic reasoning.

   Persons wishing to submit a paper should send five copies written
in English to:
              Hugo Terashima, Program Chair
              Centro de Inteligencia Artificial, ITESM.
              Sucursal de Correos "J", Monterrey, N.L.
              64849 MEXICO
       Tel.(52-83) 58-2000 ext. 5134
       Telefax (52-83) 58-1400 Dial ext.5143 or 58-2000 Ask ext.5143
       Net address: isai at tecmtyvm.bitnet or terashim at mtecv2.mty.
       itesm.mx.

       The paper should identify the area and technique to which it
belongs. Papers will be evaluated with respect to their originality,
correctness, clarity and relevance. Use a serif type font, size 10,
single-spaced with a maximum of 10 pages. No papers will be accepted
by electronic means.

Important dates:
       Papers must be received by April 30,1992. Authors will be
notified of acceptance or rejection by June 30,1992. A final copy
of each accepted paper, camera ready for inclusion in the Symposium
proceedings, will be due by July 31,1992.


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Honorary Conference Chair: Raj Reddy, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
General Chair: Francisco Cantu-Ortiz, ITESM, Mexico
General Co-Chair: Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Canada

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From: Andy Clark <andycl@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 92 18:28:46 GMT

  **** PERMANENT LECTURESHIP IN PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX ****

Applications are invited from men and women for a permanent lectureship in
philosophy at the University of Sussex, England. The applicant should be able
to teach "core" philosophy courses (e.g. Descartes to Hume), and should have a
specialist interest in the philosophy of mind/cognitive science and/or the
philosophy of language.

Application-forms and Further Particulars can be obtained from:

    Ms. Elinor Mitchenall
    The Personnel Office
    Sussex House
    University of Sussex
    Falmer
    Brighton
    BN1 9RH

Phone: (0273)- 678201

FAX; (0273) - 678335 (mark FAX "for the attention of the Personnel Dept."


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