From: IN%"mkant+ai-faq@cs.cmu.edu" 13-AUG-1993 07:29:35.76 To: IN%"news-answers@cs.utexas.edu" CC: Subj: FAQ: Artificial Intelligence Questions & Answers 1/6 [Monthly posting] Archive-name: ai-faq/part1 Last-Modified: Tue Jul 20 20:55:36 1993 by Mark Kantrowitz Version: 1.9 ;;; **************************************************************** ;;; Answers to Questions about Artificial Intelligence ************* ;;; **************************************************************** ;;; Written by Mark Kantrowitz ;;; ai-faq-1.text -- 54524 bytes If you think of questions that are appropriate for this FAQ, or would like to improve an answer, please send email to mkant+ai-faq@cs.cmu.edu. *** Topics Covered: Part 1: [1-0] What is the purpose of this newsgroup? [1-1] AI-related Associations and Journals [1-2] How do I get a copy of the proceedings to conference ? [1-4] What are the rules for the game of "Life"? [1-5] What AI competitions exist? [1-8] Commercial AI products. [1-9] Glossary of AI terms. [1-10] What are the top schools in AI? [1-11] How can I get the email address for Joe or Jill Researcher? Part 2 (AI-related Newsgroups and Mailing Lists): List of all known AI-related newsgroups, mailing lists, and electronic bulletin board systems. Part 3 (Bibliography): Bibliography of introductory texts, overviews and references Addresses and phone numbers for major AI publishers Part 4 (FTP Resources): [4-0] General Information about FTP Resources for AI [4-1] FTP Repositories [4-2] FTP and Other Resources Part 5 (FTP Resources): [5-1] AI Bibliographies available by FTP [5-2] AI Technical Reports available by FTP [5-3] Where can I get a machine readable dictionary, thesaurus, and other text corpora? [5-4] List of Smalltalk implementations. Part 6 (Expert System Shells): [6-1] Introduction and Acknowledgements [6-2] Other Sources of Information [6-3] Free/Cheap Expert System Shells [6-4] Commercial Expert System Shells Search for [#] to get to question number # quickly. *** Recent changes: ;;; 1.9 ;;; 19-JUL-93 mk Corrected Vision List mailing list addres. ;;; 20-JUL-93 mk Corrected JAIR entry to match current proposal. ;;; 20-JUL-93 mk Updated CLIPS entry. ;;; 20-JUL-93 mk Updated ILOG RULES and SMECI entries in part 6. ;;; 10-AUG-93 mk Added entry on CELP to part 4. ;;; 10-AUG-93 mk Entry on AAAI Robot Building Contest. ;;; 10-AUG-93 mk Added entry on Kappa PC mailing list to part 2. *** Introduction: Certain questions and topics come up frequently in the various network discussion groups devoted to and related to Artificial Intelligence (AI). This file/article is an attempt to gather these questions and their answers into a convenient reference for AI researchers. It is posted on a monthly basis. The hope is that this will cut down on the user time and network bandwidth used to post, read and respond to the same questions over and over, as well as providing education by answering questions some readers may not even have thought to ask. The latest version of this file is available via anonymous FTP from CMU: To obtain the file from CMU, connect by anonymous ftp to any CMU CS machine (e.g., ftp.cs.cmu.edu [128.2.206.173]), using username "anonymous" and password "name@host". The files ai-faq-1.text, ai-faq-2.text, ai-faq-3.text, ai-faq-4.text, ai-faq-5.text and ai-faq-6.text are located in the directory /afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/ai-repository/ai/pubs/faqs/ [Note: You must cd to this directory in one atomic operation, as some of the superior directories on the path are protected from access by anonymous ftp.] If your site runs the Andrew File System, you can just cp the file directly without bothering with FTP. The FAQ postings are also archived in the periodic posting archive on rtfm.mit.edu [18.70.0.224]. Look in the anonymous ftp directory /pub/usenet/news.answers/ in the subdirectory ai-faq/. If you do not have anonymous ftp access, you can access the archive by mail server as well. Send an E-mail message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with "help" and "index" in the body on separate lines for more information. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [1-0] What is the purpose of this newsgroup? The newsgroup comp.ai exists for general discussion of topics related to Artificial Intelligence. For example, possible topics can include (but are not necessarily limited to): announcements of AI books and products discussion of AI programs and tools questions about AI techniques problems implementing an AI technique Postings should be of general interest to the AI community. See also part 2 of the FAQ for a list of other more specialized discussion lists. 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 and comp.ai.neural-nets newsgroups, so if you don't find what you're looking for here, we suggest you try the FAQs for those newsgroups. These FAQs should be available by anonymous ftp from rtfm.mit.edu [18.70.0.224] in subdirectories of /pub/usenet/ or by sending a mail message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with subject "help". The Lisp FAQ is also available by anonymous ftp from the same ftp location as the AI FAQ and from ftp.think.com:/public/think/lisp/. Information about Prolog may be obtained from two sources: The Prolog FAQ, which is posted twice a month to the newsgroup comp.lang.prolog by Jamie Andrews , and the Prolog Resource Guide, which is posted to the newsgroup comp.lang.prolog once a month, and is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.cmu.edu [128.2.206.173] in the directory /afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/ai-repository/ai/pubs/faqs/ as the files prolog-resource-guide-1.text and prolog-resource-guide-2.text. The Robotics FAQ is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.cmu.edu [128.2.206.173] in the directory /user/nivek/robotics-faq as the files part1 and part2. To obtain a copy by email, send a message to mail-server@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 [137.39.1.9] in /archive/usenet/news.answers/robotics-faq/). Information about object-oriented programming can be obtained in the newsgroups comp.object, comp.lang.clos, and comp.lang.smalltalk. Information about object-oriented databases can be obtained in the survey compiled by Stewart Clamen, which may be found either in the comp.object FAQ posting or in byron.sp.cs.cmu.edu:clamen/evolution-summary ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [1-1] AI-related Associations and Journals Associations: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AAAI) AAAI, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025. 415-328-3123, info@aaai.org, membership@aaai.org Membership includes AI Magazine: $40 regular, $20 student, $60 institution (US/Canadian) $65 regular, $45 student, $85 institution (Foreign) AAAI has several special interest groups (SIGs), including one on manufacturing and one on medicine. ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY (ACM) ACM, 1515 Broadway, New York, NY 10036. Member Services, 11 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036. 212-869-7440. Fax 212-944-1318. Email: acmhelp@acmvm.bitnet. $75 regular, $22 student (includes Communications of the ACM) $15 ($8 students) extra for SIGART membership (gets Sigart Bulletin; non-member subscription is $41) $12 ($7 students) extra for Lisp Pointers. $15 ($10 students) extra for Computing Surveys $34 ($29 students) extra for Computing Reviews INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERS (IAKE) IAKE, 11820 Parklawn Drive, Suite 302, Rockville, MD 20852. 301-948-5390 $65 regular, $30 students. ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (ACL) Natural language processing research and applications. Members receive the journal Computational Linguistics, ISSN 0891-2017. Regular membership $30 ($20 full-time students not earning a regular income; $20 for retired), $10 extra for first class/air postage in North America, $20 elsewhere. For more information write to Dr. Donald E. Walker (ACL), Bellcore, 445 South Street, MRE 2A379, Morristown, NJ 07960, USA, call +1-201-829-4312, fax +1-201-829-5981, or send email to acl@bellcore.com. Institutions must subscribe to the journal through MIT Press Journals, 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA, +1-617-253-2889. INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS (IEEE) IEEE Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, PO Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855. 1-800-678-IEEE, 201-981-0060 IEEE membership is $95 regular ($28 students) For membership in the IEEE Computer Society, add $22 ($13 students). $20 for IEEE Expert (Intelligent Systems and their Applications) $12 for Transactions on Neural Networks $12 for Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics $15 for Transactions on Robotics and Automation $19 for Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering $24 for Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF APPLIED INTELLIGENCE (ISAI) Membership is $25 for associate members and $75 for full members. Full members receive a subscription to the International Journal of Applied Intelligence (normal institutional rate is $217). To apply contact Graham Forsyth, secretary, forsyth@fencer.cis.dsto.gov.au. Or write to ISAI, Department of Computer Science, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 78666-4616, phone 512-245-3409, fax 512-245-3804, or send email to Moonis Ali, president, . Working groups include CIM -- Learning in Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Automatic Failure Diagnostics, Production Management, Finance, Building Architecture, Scheduling and Planning. COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY Membership: $50 individuals, $25 student. Add $15 overseas postage. Members receive a copy of the journal Cognitive Science without additional charge. Write to Alan Lesgold, Secretary/Treasurer, Cognitive Science Society, LRDC, University of Pittsburgh, 3939 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, fax 1-412-624-9149, email al+@pitt.edu. INTERNATIONAL FUZZY SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION (IFSA) Membership $180, includes a subscription to the International Journal of Fuzzy Sets and Systems, ISSN 0165-0114. Write to Prof. Philippe Smets, University of Brussels, IRIDIA, 50 av. F. Roosevelt, CP 194/6, 1050 Brussels, Belgium. NORTH AMERICAN FUZZY INFORMATION PROCESSING SOCIETY (NAFIPS) For more information, contact Thomas H. Whalen, Secretary/Treasurer, Decision Sciences Department, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, 404-651-4080, . NAFIPS holds a conference and a workshop in alternating years. SOCIETY FOR MACHINES AND MENTALITY James H. Moor, Treasurer, Society for Machines and Mentality, Department of Philosophy, Dartmouth College, 6035 Thornton Hall, Hanover, NH 03755-3592 U.S.A. 603-646-2155. Email: James.H.Moor@Dartmouth.edu $5 Membership only $50 Membership with subscription to _Minds and Machines_ CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES OF INTELLIGENCE (CSCSI) Members receive a subscription to Canadian Artificial Intelligence. CSCSI/SCEIO, c/o CIPS, 430 King Street West, Suite 205, Toronto, Ontario M5V 1L5, CANADA 416-593-4040, fax 416-593-5184 Membership: $40 individuals, $30 students JAPANESE ASSOCIATION FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (JSAI) OS Bldg. Suite #402 4-7 Tsukudo-cho, Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 162 Japan Phone: +81-3-5261-3401 Telfax: +81-3-5261-3402 SOCIEDAD MEXICANA DE INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL (SMIA) Ofelia Cervantes V, Apartado Postal #5, Universidad de las Americas, Sta. Catarina Martir Puebla 72820, MEXICO (52-22) 47-0522, (52-22) 47-4319 AUSTRIAN SOCIETY FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (ASAI) Postfach 177, Vienna, A-1014, AUSTRIA (43) 1 535-32810 INTERNATIONAL NEURAL NETWORK SOCIETY (INNS) Membership is $55/year for non-students and $45/year for students, and includes a subscription to "Neural Networks", the official journal of the society. INNS Membership, P.O. Box 491166, Ft. Washington, MD 20749 INTERNATIONAL STUDENT SOCIETY FOR NEURAL NETWORKS (ISSNNets) Membership is $5 per year. ISSNNet, Inc., P.O. Box 15661, Boston, MA 02215 See also comp.org.issnnet. JAPANESE NEURAL NETWORK SOCIETY (JNNS) Department of Engineering, Tamagawa University, 6-1-1, Tamagawa Gakuen, Machida City, Tokyo, 194 JAPAN Phone: +81 427 28 3457 Fax: +81 427 28 3597 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ITALIAN ASSOCIATION (AIIA) c/o Fondazione Ugo Borboni, Roma - Italy Contact: Oliviero Stock Tel: +39 6 54803428 Fax: +39 6 54804405 THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LAW (IAAIL) Contact: Prof. Carole Hafner, IAAIL, College of Computer Science, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 USA Membership: $60 Regular, $35 student (incuding AI and Law Journal) $25 Reduced (without journal subscription) ASSOCIATION FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION IN THE AMERICAS (AMTA) 655 Fifteenth Street, NW, Suite 310, Washington, DC 20005 Membership: $40 Associate members, $65 active members, Institutional $200, Corporate $400. Members receive the MT News International and the MT Yellow Pages. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND SIMULATION OF BEHAVIOR (AISB) c/o Alison White, School of Cognitive Science, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH Tel: +44-273-678379 email: alisonw@cogs.susx.ac.uk Published the AISB Newsletter. Newsletters: The Computists' Communique is a weekly online newsletter for AI/IS/CS scientists. It covers research and funding news; career, consulting, and entrepreneurial issues; AI-related job postings and journal calls; FTPable & other resource leads; market trends; analysis and discussion. The Communique serves members of Computists International, a professional mutual-aid society. Membership in Computists International runs $135 for new professional members, $55 for students and the unemployed. There is a 25% discount for Canada, Western Europe, the UK, Japan, and Australia; other countries and territories outside the U.S. get a 50% discount. For more information, contact Dr. Kenneth I. Laws (laws@ai.sri.com), 415-493-7390, 4064 Sutherland Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94303. Organizations -- Robotics Related: For a list of organizations that are robotics related, see the FAQ posting for comp.robotics, maintained by Kevin Dowling . Note: Some Journals are listed with the publishing organization above. Journals -- General: JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH (JAIR) JAIR is published by the AI Access Foundation, a nonprofit corporation devoted to the electronic dissemination of scientific results in AI. JAIR is a refereed publication, covering all areas of AI, that will be distributed free of charge over the internet by ftp, electronic mail, and in the newsgroups comp.ai.jair.announce (announcements and abstracts of new papers) and comp.ai.jair.papers (papers, code, and other materials, distinguished by subject line). Both will be moderated, with discussion occurring in comp.ai. In addition, each complete volume of JAIR will be published by Morgan Kaufmann. JAIR aims to have a review turn-around time of about 5 weeks, with electronic publication occurring immediately after the editor receives the final version of an accepted article. JAIR will begin accepting submissions on June 15, 1993. Further information regarding submissions can be obtained by sending a request to jair@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov. [The newsgroups have not yet been created.] JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0824-7935 Basil Blackwell Publishers, Journal Subscription Department, 3 Cambridge Centre, Cambridge, MA 02142 or call 1-800-835-6770. Blackwell Publishers, 108 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1JF, England. Individual subscriptions are $85 in North America and $100 in the rest of the world. Institutional subscriptions are $175 and $190, respectively. A reduced rate of $40 is available to members of the Canadian Information Processing Society. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REVIEW (Survey and Tutorial Journal) Kluwer Academic Publishers, 101 Philip Drive, Norwell, MA 02061, 617-871-6600, fax 617-871-6528. PO Box 358, Accord Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358. Email: kluwer@world.std.com The institutional subscription rate is $130 per volume (4 issues). ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Published 18 times annually. ISSN 0004-3702. $80 individuals (must be a member of one of the major AI societies). To order in the US, write to AAAI, AI Journal, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025-3496, or to Elsevier Science Publishing, 655 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10017, 212-633-3827. Outside the US, contact Elsevier Science Publishers, Attn: Ursula van Dijk, PO Box 103, 1000 AC Amsterdam, The Netherlands, or call +31-20-5862-608. COGNITIVE SCIENCE Ablex Publishing Company, 355 Chestnut Street, Norwood, NJ 07648 201-767-8450, fax 201-767-6717 $50 individual, $125 institution. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (JETAI) Annual subscription, 1992/3, $163; personal subscription, $82. To order in the US, write to Taylor and Francis, Inc., 1900 Frost Road, Suite 101, Bristol, PA 19007-1598. Or contact the home office: Taylor and Francis Ltd, Rankine Road, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK RG24 0PR (0256) 840366. ISSN 0952-813X SPANG ROBINSON REPORT ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS Published monthly. ISSN 0885-9957. Subscriptions: $405 US & Canada, $455 elsewhere. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158-0012, 212-850-6347, fax 212-850-6088. MINDS AND MACHINES Journal for Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science ISSN 0924-6495 Subscription information and sample copies available from: Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands. In the US, write to Kluwer Academic Publishers, 101 Philip Drive, Norwell, MA 02061. COMPUTERS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE I. Plander (ed.) VEDA Publishing House of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Klemenosova 19, 814 30 Bratislava, Slovakia. Published bimonthly, order from: Lange & Springer GmbH, Foller Str.2, P.O.B. 10 16 10, 5000 Koln 1, Germany. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AI TOOLS World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc. 1060 Main Street, River Edge, NJ 07661 Tel: 1-800-227-7562 ANNALS OF MATHEMATICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE J.C. Baltzer AG Scientific Publishing Company, Wettsteinplatz 10, CH-4058 Basel, Switzerland, tel 41-61-691-89-25, fax 41-61-692-42-62. In the United States, send orders to J. C. Baltzer AG, Scientific Publishing Company, PO Box 8577, Red Bank, NJ 07701-8577. Subscriptions: Individuals Sfr. 130.00/$80.00 OBJECT-ORIENTED SYSTEMS Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0969-9767. Subscriptions: Institutions US$210/120 pounds EC/130 pounds RoW Individuals US$93/50 pounds EC/50 pounds RoW USA/Canada: Journals Promotion Dept., Chapman & Hall, 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 20001-2299, USA, 212-244-3336, fax 212-244-3426, E-mail 71201.1651@compuserve.com. EC/RoW: Journals Promotions Dept., Chapman & Hall, 2-6 Boundary Row, London SE1 8HN, UK, +44 (0)71-865-0066, fax +44 (0)71-522-9623, E-mail journal@chall.mhs.compuserve.com. Journals -- Applied AI: APPLIED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0883-9514 Subscriptions: Institutions $176; Individuals $84. Hemisphere Publishing Corp., 1900 Frost Rd., Suite 101, Bristol, PA 19007 215-785-5800, fax 215-785-5515. (in the UK, write to Taylor & Francis Ltd., Rankine Rd., Baskingstoke, Hampshire RG24 0PR, UK, call +44-256-840366, or fax +44-256-479438) APPLIED INTELLIGENCE The International Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, and Complex Problem-Solving Technologies Subscriptions: Institutions $217; Individuals $75. Editor in Chief: Dr. Moonis Ali, Professor of Computer Science, The University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, TN 37388 Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, P.O. Box 358, Accord Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358, . Journals -- AI and Law: ARTICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LAW Subscriptions: $158, including postage Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands, or Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 358, Accord Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358. Journals -- AI and Medicine: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE Published 6 times annually. ISSN Number 0933-3657. Subscriptions: $175. To order in the US, write to Elsevier Science Publishing, 655 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10017, 212-633-3827. Outside the US, contact Elsevier Science Publishers, Journal Department, PO Box 211, 1000 AE Amsterdam, The Netherlands, call +31-20-5803-642, or fax +31-20-5803-598. Journals -- Automated Reasoning: JOURNAL OF AUTOMATED REASONING Published 6 times annually. ISSN 0168-7433 Subscriptions: Individuals $131; Institutions $263; AAR members $65. Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands, or Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 358, Accord Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358. AUTOMATED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING The International Journal of Automated Reasoning and Artificial Intelligence in Software Engineering. Published quarterly. Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands, or Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 358, Accord Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358. Journals -- Concurrent Engineering: CONCURRENT ENGINEERING: RESEARCH & APPLICATIONS (CERA) Published quarterly. Official journal of the Concurrent Engineering Institute of the International Society for Productivity Enhancement (ISPE). Academic Press Ltd., 24-28 Oval Road, London, NW1 7DX, UK. Call 71-267-4466, fax 71-482-2293 or 71-485-4752, or email ac2@ib.rl.ac.uk. Relevant to parallel processing, blackboard systems, distributed AI, and AI in manufacturing. For information about submissions, write to Biren Prasad, Managing Editor, CERA Institute, PO Box 250254, West Bloomfield, MI 48325, call 313-492-0551, fax 313-661-8333, or send email to bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com. Journals -- Engineering: ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Published 6 times annually. Subscriptions: Institutions (1992) 235.00 or approx US$425.00; two year institutional rate (1992/93) 446.50 or approx US$807.50. North America: Pergamon Press Inc., 660 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY 10591-55153, USA. Rest of the World: Pergamon Press Ltd, Headington Hill Hall, Oxford OX3 0BW, England. Tel: Oxford (0865)794141 Journals -- Expert Systems: EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0957-4174. Subscriptions: Institutions L85 ($155), Individuals L45 ($72). Pergamon Press Inc., 660 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY 10591-5153, email PPI@pergamon.com, or Pergamon Press Ltd., Headington Hill Hall, Oxford OX3 0BW, England. EXPERT SYSTEMS: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0266-4720. Subscriptions: L85 ($110) Learned Information Ltd., Woodside, Hinksey Hill, Oxford OX1 5AU, UK. Tel: +44 (0)865-730275 Fax: +44 (0)085-736354 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERT SYSTEMS Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0894-9077. Subscriptions: Institutions $135; Individuals $75. Outside the US add $10 for surface mail and $20 for airmail. JAI Press Inc., 55 Old Post Road -- No. 2, PO Box 1678, Greenwich, CT 06836-1678. Journals -- Genetic Algorithms: EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION Published 4 times annually, beginning April/May 1993. 100 pages per issue, 7x10. ISSN 1063-6550 Editor-in-chief: Kenneth De Jong Subscription Rates: Individuals $45 ($63.13 Canada, $59 elsewhere), Institutions $120.00 ($143.38 Canada, $134.00 elsewhere), and Students/Retired $30.00 ($47.08 Canada, $44.00 elsewhere). MIT Press Journals, 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1399, 617-253-2889, fax 617-258-6779, E-mail hiscox@mitvma.mit.edu. Journals -- Machine Learning: MACHINE LEARNING Published 8 times annually. ISSN 0885-6125 Subscriptions: Institutions $301; Individuals $140. (AAAI Individual Members $88) Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands, or Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 358, Accord Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358. Journals -- NLP/Speech/MT: COMPUTER SPEECH AND LANGUAGE Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0885-2308. Subscriptions: Institutions $136, Individuals $58. Academic Press Ltd., 24-28 Oval Road, London NW1, England. MACHINE TRANSLATION Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0922-6567. Subscriptions: Institutions $141 plus $16 postage; Individuals $55 (members of ACL $46). Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands, or Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 358, Accord Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358. Journals -- Neural Nets/Connectionism: CONNECTION SCIENCE Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0954-0091. Subscriptions: Individual $82, Institution $184, Institution (UK) 74 pounds Carfax Publishing Company, PO Box 25, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3UE, UK. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NEURAL NETWORKS RESEARCH & APPLICATIONS Published quarterly. ISSN 0954-9889. Learned Information Ltd., Woodside, Hinksey Hill, Oxford OX1 5AU, UK. Tel: +44 (0)865-730275 Fax: +44 (0)085-736354 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NEURAL SYSTEMS Published quarterly. ISSN 0129-0657 Subscriptions: Individual $42, Institution $88 (plus $9-$17 for postage) USA: World Scientific Publishing Co., 687 Hartwell Street, Teaneck, NJ 07666, 201-837-8858; Eurpoe: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 73 Lynton Mead, Totteridge, London N20-8DH, England, (01) 4462461; Other: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Farrer Road, P.O. Box 128, Singapore 9128, 2786188. NEURAL COMPUTING AND APPLICATIONS Published quarterly. Official journal of the Neural Computing Applications Forum. Subscriptions: #120 per annum. (Free to NCAF members.) Springer Verlag, Service Center Secaucus, 44 Hartz Way, Secaucus, NJ 07094 Tel: 201-348-4033 Springer-Verlag, Springer House, 8 Alexandra Road, LONDON SW19 7JZ Tel: ..44/0 81 947 1280 Fax: 0 81 947 1274 Spqringer-Verlag, Heidelberger Platz 3, D-1000 BERLIN, Germany Tel: (0)30 8207-1 NEURAL COMPUTATION Published quarterly since 1989. ISSN 0899-7667. MIT Press Journals, 55 Hayward Street Cambridge, MA 02142-9949, 617-253-2889 Subscriptions: Individual $45, Institution $90, Students $35. Add $9 for foreign subscriptions. NEURAL NETWORKS Published 6 times annually. ISSN 0893-6080. Official journal of the International Neural Network Society. Subscriptions: $380 Pergamon Press, Ltd., Headington Hill Hall, Oxford OX3 0BW, UK. Pergamon Press, Inc., 660 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY 10591-5153. Journals -- Pattern Recognition: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PATTERN RECOGNITION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Annual subscription, 1992/3, $340; individual subscription, $138. Add $34 for airmail. Published 5 times a year by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Farrer Road, PO Box 128, Singapore 9128. (In the US, write to World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc., River Edge, NJ 07661; in Europe to World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc., Totteridge, London N20 8DH, England.) PATTERN RECOGNITION Journal of the Pattern Recognition Society. Members receive the journal free of charge as part of their membership in the Society. Institutions may subscribe for $845. Pergamon Press, Ltd., Headington Hill Hall, Oxford OX3 0BW, UK. Pergamon Press, Inc., 660 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY 10591-5153. PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS Published 12 times annually. ISSN 0167-8655. Official publication of the International Association for Pattern Recognition. Subscriptions: $462 Institutions. Elsevier Science Publishing, 655 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10017, 212-633-3827. Outside the US, contact Elsevier Science Publishers, Attn: Ursula van Dijk, PO Box 103, 1000 AC Amsterdam, The Netherlands, or call +31-20-5862-608. Journals -- Reasoning Under Uncertainty: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPROXIMATE REASONING The treatment of Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence Published 8 times a year. ISSN 0888-613X. Subscriptions: Institutions $282; included with NAFIPS membership (see NAFIPS entry above). North-Holland, Elsevier Science Publishing Co., Inc., 655 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10010 Journals -- Robotics: INDUSTRIAL ROBOT ISSN 0143-991X Published quarterly. $145/year MCB University Press Limited, 62 Toller Lane, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England BD8 9BY, (44) 274-499821, fax (44) 274-547143. In the US, write to MCB University Press Limited, PO Box 10812, Birmingham, AL 35201-0812, 1-800-633-4931 (1-205-995-1567), fax 1-205-995-1588. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0826-8185 Subscriptions: $165 US or 313.50 SFr. ($12 US or 22.80 SFr postage and handling). A special rate is available to members of IASTED. Write to ACTA Press, PO Box 354, CH-8053, Zurich, Switzerland or ACTA Press, PO Box 2481, Anaheim, CA 92814. IASTED is the International Association of Science and Technology for Development. Individual memberships are $60 US or $120 SFr and corporate memberships $100 US or $200.00 SFr. Members receive a complimentary subscription to the journal of their choice; the annual cost of additional journals for members is $20US/$40SFr per journal. Write to IASTED, PO Box 25, Station G, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T3A 2G1, or IASTED, PO Box 354, CH-8053, Zurich, Switzerland. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH MIT Press, 28 Carleton Street, Cambridge, MA 02142 Subscriptions: $50/year to individuals JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT & ROBOTIC SYSTEMS Three issues per volume, $58.50 per volume (individual) Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands. In the US write to Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 358, Accord Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358. ROBOTICS TODAY Society of Manufacturing Engineers, One SME Drive, PO Box 930, Dearborn, MI 48121. 313-271-1500 ROBOTICS WORLD Published quarterly. Communication Channels, 6255 Barfield Road, Atlanta, GA 30328 404-256-9800 A magazine of flexible automation for the end-user. They also publish the Robotics World Directory for $49.95 ROBOT (Japanese) Industrial Robots and Application Systems Published bimonthly. Japan Industrial Robot Association (JIRA) Kikai-Shinko Building, 3-5-8, Shiba-Kohen, Mina To-ku, Tokyo, Japan Tokyo (03) 3434-2919, fax (03) 3578-1404 ROBOTICA International Journal of Information, Education and Research in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Published quarterly, US $179/year. Cambridge University Press, The Edinburgh Building, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK. In the US write to Cambridge University Press, Journals Department, 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211. Journals -- User Modeling: USER MODELING AND USER-ADAPTED INTERACTION 4 issues per annum, ISSN 0924-1868, $153.50 p.a. ($50 for individuals) Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Journals -- Virtual Reality: PRESENCE Subscriptions: $50 individual, $120 institutions, $40 students/retired (higher rates for Canada and overseas) MIT Press Journals 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1399 617-253-2889, fax 617-258-6779 hiscox@mitvma.mit.edu Journals -- Vision: MACHINE VISION AND APPLICATIONS Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0932-8092. Subscriptions: Institutions $106 (plus $11 p&h); Individuals $54 (incl p&h). Springer-Verlag New York Inc., Journal Fulfillment Services, 44 Hartz Way, Secaucus, NJ 07094, 1-800-SPRINGER. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER VISION Published 6 times annually. ISSN 0920-5691. Subscriptions: Institutions $229; Individuals $115. Add $8 for airmail. Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands, or Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 358, Accord Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358. Other Journals and Magzines: If you have the subscription information for the following, please send a message with that information to mkant+ai-faq@cs.cmu.edu. Journals: Behavioral and Brain Sciences Brain and Cognition Brain and Language Cognition Cognition and Brain Theory Cognitive Psychology Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing Human Intelligence IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Sets and Systems ? International Journal of Man-Machine Studies Journal of the Association for the Study of Perception Journal of Intelligent Systems Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems Journal of Logic Programming Journal of Symbolic Computing New Generation Computing (logic programming) Speech Technology Magazines: Annual Review in Automatic Programming Artificial Intelligence Report IEEE Control Systems Magazine (often has articles about NNs and fuzzy systems) Robotics Age ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [1-2] How do I get a copy of the proceedings to conference ? First, ask your librarian for help. If your local library doesn't have it, they may be able to get it on interlibrary loan. If you want to buy your own copy, first check with the organization that ran the conference. See the answer to question [1-1] for a list of many of the AI organizations that sponsor conferences. If they can't help you, contact the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), and look up the proceedings in their Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings (ISTP volumes). You can contact the ISI at Institute for Scientific Information, Inc. 3501 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Phone: 215-386-0100 Fax: 215-386-6362 Another source for proceedings author and subject indexes is: Directory of Published Proceedings. Series SEMT: Science/Engineering/Medicine/Technology. Published monthly with annual cumulations by InterDok, Harrison, NY. ISSN 0012-3293. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [1-4] What are the rules for the game of "Life"? Cellular Automata, of which Life is an example, were suggested by Stanislaw Ulam in the 1940s, and first formalized by von Neumann. Conway's "Game of Life" was popularized in Martin Gardner's mathematical games column in the October 1970 and February 1971 issues of Scientific American. (Shorter notes on life are alse given in the column in each month from October 1970 to April 1971, and well as November 1971, January 1972, and December 1972.) There's also quite a bit on the game in "The Recursive Universe", by William Poundstone, Oxford University Press, 1987, 252 pages. The rules for the game of life are quite simple. The game board is a rectangular cell array, with each cell either empty or filled. At each tick of the clock, we generate the next generation by the following rules: if a cell is empty, fill it if 3 of its neighbors are filled (otherwise leave it empty) if a cell is filled, it dies of loneliness if it has 1 or fewer neighbors continues to live if it has 2 or 3 neighbors dies of overcrowding if it has more than 3 neighbors Neighbors include the cells on the diagonals. Some implementations use a torus-based array (edges joined top-to-bottom and left-to-right) for computing neighbors. For example, a row of 3 filled cells will become a column of 3 filled cells in the next generation. The R pentomino is an interesting pattern: xx xx x Try it with other patterns of 5 cells initially occupied. If you record the ages of cells, and map the ages to colors, you can get a variety of beautiful images. When implementing Life, be sure to maintain separate arrays for the old and new generation. Updating the array in place will not work correctly. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [1-5] What AI competitions exist? The Loebner Prize, based on a fund of over $100,000 established by New York businessman Hugh G. Loebner, is awarded annually for the computer program that best emulates natural human behavior. During the contest, a panel of independent judges attempts to determine whether the responses on a computer terminal are being produced by a computer or a person, along the lines of the Turing Test. The designers of the best program each year win a cash award and a medal. If a program passes the test in all its particulars, then the entire fund will be paid to the program's designer and the fund abolished. For further information about the Loebner Prize, write Dr. Robert Epstein, Executive Director, Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, 11 Waterhouse Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, or call 617-491-9020. The BEAM Robot Olympics is a robot exhibition/competition started in 1991. For more information about the competition, write to BEAM Robot Olympics, c/o: Mark W. Tilden, MFCF, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L-3G1, 519-885-1211 x2454, mwtilden@watmath.uwaterloo.ca. The Gordon Bell Prize competition recognizes outstanding achievements in the application of parallel processing to practical scientific and engineering problems. Entries are considered in performance, price/performance, compiler parallelization and speedup categories, and a total of $3,000 will be awarded. The prizes are sponsored by Gordon Bell, a former National Science Foundation division director who is now an independent consultant. Contestants should send a three- or four-page executive summary to 1993 Gordon Bell Prize, c/o Marilyn Potes, IEEE Computer Society, 10662 Los Vaqueros Cir., PO Box 3014, Los Alamitos, CA 90720-1264, before May 31, 1993. AAAI has an annual robot building competition. The anonymous FTP site for the contest is/was aeneas.mit.edu in pub/ACS/6.270/AAAI. This site has the manual and the rules. To be added to the rbl-94@ai.mit.edu mailing list for discussing the AAAI robot building contest, send mail to rbl-94-request@ai.mit.edu. See also the 6.270 robot building guide in part 3 of this FAQ. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [1-8] Commercial AI products. Commercial Expert System Shells are listed in [6-2]. 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 . To join the Stiquito mailing list run by Jon Blow of UC/Berkeley, send mail to stiquito-request@xcf.berkeley.edu. Togai InfraLogic, Inc. (TIL) is a supplier of fuzzy logic and fuzzy expert system software and hardware. For more information, write to Togai InfraLogic, Inc., 5 Vanderbilt, Irvine, CA 92718, call +1 714 975 8522, fax +1 714 975 8524, or send email to info@til.com or til!info. TIL also supports an email-server that can be reached at fuzzy-server@til.com or til!fuzzy-server. Send an email message that contains just the word "help" in either the subject line or the message body for more information. A list of products can be obtained by sending a message that contains only the line "send products.txt" to the email-server. For an index of the contents of the server, send a message with the line "send index". The following is from Risks Digest 13.83 -- I have no idea what the software does, but Colby did head up the PARRY project: FEELING HELPLESS ABOUT DEPRESSION? Overcoming Depression 2.0 provides computer based cognitive therapy for depression with therapeutic dialogue in everyday language. Created by Kenneth Mark Colby, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioural Sciences, Emeritus, UCLA. Personal Version ($199), Professional version ($499). Malibu Artificial Intelligence Works, 25307 Malibu Rd, CA 90265. 1-800-497-6889. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [1-9] Glossary of AI terms. This is the start of a simple glossary of short definitions for AI terminology. Strong AI: Claim that computers can be made to actually think, just like human beings do. More precisely, the claim that there exists a class of computer programs, such that any implementation of such a program is really thinking. Weak AI: Claim that computers are important tools in the modeling and simulation of human activity. Case-based Reasoning: Technique whereby "cases" similar to the current problem are retrieved and their "solutions" modified to work on the current problem. Nonlinear Planning: A planning paradigm which does not enforce a total (linear) ordering on the components of a plan. Admissibility: An admissible search algorithm is one that is guaranteed to find an optimal path from the start node to a goal node, if one exists. In A* search, an admissible heuristic is one that never overestimates the distance remaining from the current node to the goal. Fuzzy Logic: In Fuzzy Logic, truth values are real values in the closed interval [0..1]. The definitions of the boolean operators are extended to fit this continuous domain. By avoiding discrete truth-values, Fuzzy Logic avoids some of the problems inherent in either-or judgments and yields natural interpretations of utterances like "very hot". Fuzzy Logic has applications in control theory. Verification: The process of confirming that an implemented model works as intended. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [1-10] What are the top schools in AI? The answer to this question is not intended to be a ranking and should not be interpreted as such. There are several major problems with ratings like the Gourman Report and the US News and World Report. Such rankings are often unsubstantiated and anecdotal, their accuracy is questionable, and they do not focus on the subfields of an area. When selecting a graduate school, students should look for schools which not only have excellent programs in their general area of research but also at least one faculty member whose research interests mesh well with the student's. Accordingly, we've broken down this list according to topic, and sorted the schools within each topic in ALPHABETICAL ORDER. For a school to be added to a topic area, there should at least two faculty actively conducting research in that area and the school should have a "good" reputation in that area. Exceptions are made for schools which only have one faculty member in the area, but that professor is a "leader" of the area, or for fields where the total number of people working in the area is small in the first place. The general idea behind these criteria is to ensure that a school has enough activity in the area that a student who considers one of these schools won't be disappointed if one of the faculty in that area is on sabbatical or isn't taking students. The best way for students to discover which schools are good in a field is to ask professors (and graduate students) in their undergraduate school for suggestions on where to apply. Reading the research journals in the field is another good method (see question [1-1]). A list of email addresses for CS departments is posted once a month to the newsgroup soc.college.gradinfo. The Association for Computational Linguistics publishes a directory of graduate programs in Computational Linguistics ($15 for members, $30 for others). Contact Donald E. Walker (ACL), Bellcore, 445 South Street MRE 2A379, Morristown, NJ 07960, +1-201-829-4312, acl@bellcore.com for more information. 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) Maryland Rutgers SUNY/Buffalo Sussex University Toronto UCLA UC/Berkeley Univ. of Edinburgh Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Univ. of Maryland/College Park Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst Univ. of Michigan Univ. of Pittsburgh Univ. of Rochester Univ. of Southern California & USC/Information Sciences Institute Yale AI and Manufacturing: Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) -- CIMDS Univ. of Maryland/College Park Univ. of Toronto AI and Medicine: MIT Stanford Univ. of Pittsburgh AI and Legal Reasoning: Imperial College Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst Artificial Life: UCLA Automated Deduction/Theorem Proving: Imperial College Stanford Univ. of Edinburgh Univ. of Oregon Univ. of Texas/Austin Case-Based Reasoning/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 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 Colorado/Boulder Univ. of Edinburgh Univ. of Minnesota Univ. of Pennsylvania Univ. of Rochester Connectionism/Neural Networks: Boston University, Cognitive and Neural Systems Department (ART networks) Brown University CalTech Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Indiana MIT Ohio State Univ. Stanford Syracuse University Texas A&M Toronto UC/Berkeley UC/Irvine UC/San Diego UCLA UNC/Chapel Hill Univ. of Colorado/Boulder Univ. of Edinburgh Univ. of Helsinki Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Univ. of Maryland/College Park Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst Univ. of Pennsylvania Univ. of Southern California & USC/Information Sciences Institute Decision Theory and AI: Berkeley MIT Stanford Univ. of Michigan Univ. of Washington Distributed AI: Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst Univ. of Michigan Emotion: Carnegie Mellon University Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University (ILS) Fuzzy Logic: Berkeley Genetic Algorithms: George Mason Univ. Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Univ. of Michigan UCLA UC San Diego Integrated AI Architectures: Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Stanford Univ. of Michigan 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 Pittsburgh Knowledge Representation: Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University (ILS) Stanford SUNY/Buffalo 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) Machine Learning: Brown University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) George Mason Georgia Tech Johns Hopkins MIT UCI Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst Univ. of Michigan Univ. of Southern California & USC/Information Sciences Institute 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 MIT Penn Stanford SUNY/Buffalo Toronto UCLA 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 Waterloo (stylistics, MT, discourse) Nonmonotonic Reasoning: Imperial College Stanford UCLA Univ. of Maryland/College Park Univ. of Oregon Toronto Philosophy of AI: Berkeley MIT Univ. of Maryland/College Park Planning: Brown University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Imperial College MIT Stanford 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 Qualitative Physics and Model Based Reasoning: Northwestern ILS (Forbus) Univ. of Oregon Univ. of Texas 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 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) Columbia Florida Institute of Technology MIT Media Lab Naval Postgraduate School UVA Univ. North Carolina/Chapel Hill (UNC) Vision: Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Columbia Johns Hopkins MIT SUNY/Buffalo UCLA Univ. of Edinburgh Univ. of Maryland/College Park Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst Univ. of Rochester Univ. of Southern California & USC/Information Sciences Institute ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [1-11] How can I get the email address for Joe or Jill Researcher? The AAAI membership directory is updated annually and contains addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses for many members of AAAI and other AI societies. Contact info@aaai.org for information on getting a copy of the directory (you should get a free copy if you are a member of one of the listed societies). See also the Email Address FAQ posting to the newsgroups soc.college and soc.net-people. The Artificial Intelligence and Molecular Biology Researchers database contains names, institutions, addresses, phone, fax, email, research interests and other related information about more than 200 researchers worldwide. The database is available via anonymous ftp from the host lhc.nlm.nih.gov in the directory /pub/aimb-db. There are computer- and human- readable versions available. Get the README file for more information or send email to Larry Hunter, . 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 listserv@tamvm1.tamu.edu with "get lsa lst linguist" in the message body. ---------------------------------------------------------------- ;;; *EOF* Return-path: Received: from ccsun.unicamp.br by ccvax.unicamp.br (PMDF #2801 ) id <01H1OPJQG6VK8WWDGM@ccvax.unicamp.br>; Fri, 13 Aug 1993 05:51:33 BSC (-0300 C) Received: from dcc.unicamp.br by ccsun.unicamp.br (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA06892; Fri, 13 Aug 93 05:46:59 BSC Received: from dcc.unicamp.br by dcc.unicamp.br (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04458; Fri, 13 Aug 93 05:42:24 EST Date: 13 Aug 1993 07:07:15 +0000 (GMT) From: mkant+@cs.cmu.edu (Mark Kantrowitz) Subject: FAQ: Artificial Intelligence Questions & Answers 1/6 [Monthly posting] Sender: news@cs.cmu.edu (Usenet News System) To: news-answers@cs.utexas.edu Reply-to: mkant+ai-faq@cs.cmu.edu Message-id: Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University X-Envelope-to: sabbatini Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Xref: dcc.unicamp.br comp.ai:8705 news.answers:5215 Newsgroups: comp.ai,news.answers,comp.answers Path: dcc.unicamp.br!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!das-news.harvard.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!mkant Followup-To: poster Summary: Frequently asked questions about AI Supersedes: Nntp-Posting-Host: a.gp.cs.cmu.edu Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Expires: Fri, 24 Sep 1993 07:06:31 GMT Lines: 1387