From: IN%"mkant+ai-faq@cs.cmu.edu" 13-AUG-1993 07:29:20.99 To: IN%"news-answers@cs.utexas.edu" CC: Subj: FAQ: AI Newsgroups and Mailing Lists 2/6 [Monthly posting] Archive-name: ai-faq/part2 Last-Modified: Mon Jul 19 19:32:20 1993 by Mark Kantrowitz Version: 1.9 ;;; **************************************************************** ;;; Answers to Questions about Artificial Intelligence ************* ;;; **************************************************************** ;;; Written by Mark Kantrowitz ;;; ai-faq-2.text -- 40122 bytes Part 2 (AI-related Newsgroups and Mailing Lists): List of all known AI-related newsgroups, mailing lists, and electronic bulletin board systems. Outline: ---------------- [0] How to Subscribe to a Mailing List [1] AI-related Newsgroups [2] AI Research in a particular country [3] Dial-up AI-related Bulletin Board Systems ---------------- [4] Artificial Life [5] AI Applications to Human-Computer Interface Design [6] AI in Education [7] Artificial Intelligence and Law [8] AI in Medicine [9] AI for Development [9b] Advanced Technology for Finance [10] Cellular Automata [11] Classification and Clustering [12] Connectionism and Neural Networks [13] Cybernetics and Systems [14] Distributed AI [15] Intelligent Systems for Economics Digest (IE-Digest) [16] Expert Systems in Agriculture [17] Use of Computers in the Fine Arts [18] Fuzzy Logic [19] Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming [20] Knowledge Acquisition [21] Logic Programming, Prolog [22] Machine Learning [23] Natural Language Processing [24] Psychology and Cognitive Science [25] Robot Controller Boards [26] Simulated Annealing [27] Simulation [28] Symbolic Math [29] Uncertainty [30] Vision Research [31] Qualitative Physics [40] Miscellaneous: Artificial Morality, etc. ---------------- Search for [#] to get to question number # quickly. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [0] How to Subscribe to a Mailing List To be added or deleted to any of the mailing lists described in this post, send mail to the -request version of the list except where otherwise noted. This sends mail to the list maintainer, instead of annoying the membership of the entire mailing list. To subscribe to one of the BITNET listserv forums, send mail there which contains a line of the form SUB as the first and only line in the body of the message. To unsubscribe to a ListServ list, send UNSUB or SIGNOFF instead. For Lisp-related mailing lists, see part 4 of the FAQ for the newsgroup comp.lang.lisp. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [1] AI-related Newsgroups Subscribe to these using your newsreader. comp.ai Artificial Intelligence comp.ai.edu AI and Education comp.ai.fuzzy Fuzzy Logic. Archived on the Aptronix FuzzyNet and TIL mail-servers (see [4-1]). comp.ai.genetic Genetic Algorithms comp.ai.neural-nets Neural Nets comp.ai.nat-lang Natural Language Processing (unmoderated) comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Natural Language and Knowledge Representation (Moderated). comp.robotics Robotics. Archived at the anonymous ftp site wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/comp.robotics/. Read the files AuthorIndex and SubjectIndex first. comp.theory.cell-automata Cellular Automata comp.theory.self-org-sys Self-Organizing Systems comp.simulation Simulation comp.speech Speech related research, including recognition and synthesis. Archived at the anonymous ftp site svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk [129.169.24.20] in the directory comp.speech/archive/. Other useful information is archived in comp.speech/info/. sci.lang Linguistics sci.math.symbolic Symbolic Math sci.cognitive Cognitive Science comp.ai.philosophy Philosophical Foundations of AI comp.ai.shells Expert System Shells comp.ai.vision Vision Research sci.virtual-worlds Virtual Reality. Also available through the bi-directional gateway, VIRTU-L on LISTSERV@UIUCVMD.BITNET or LISTSERV@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU comp.lang.lisp Common Lisp comp.lang.clos Common Lisp Object System comp.object Object Oriented Programming FAQ: zaphod.uchicago.edu:/pub/faq{1,2,3} comp.object.logic Integrating Object-Orientend and Logic Paradigms comp.lang.scheme Scheme comp.lang.lisp.mcl Macintosh Common Lisp comp.lang.lisp.franz Franz Lisp comp.lang.lisp.x XLisp comp.lang.prolog Prolog and Logic Programming comp.lang.pop POPLOG integrated programming language & environment for Lisp, Prolog, ML and Pop11 comp.lang.smalltalk Smalltalk comp.lang.ml Standard ML aicom mcvax!swivax!otten@uunet.uu.net International Usenet AI news German AI newsgroups: de.sci.ki de.sci.ki.announce de.sci.ki.mod-ki de.sci.ki.discussion Of the above newsgroups, the following have FAQ postings: comp.ai, comp.ai.fuzzy, comp.ai.genetic, comp.robotics, comp.speech, comp.neural-nets, comp.lang.lisp, comp.lang.scheme, comp.lang.clos, comp.lang.prolog ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [2] AI Research in a particular country British AI alvey jws%ib.rl.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Japanese AI fj-ai%etl.jp@relay.cs.net German AI mod-ki%unido.irb@unido.bitnet Mexican AI IAMEX-L on listserv@tecmtyvm.mty.itesm.mx The IAMEX-L list is administrated by the AI Invetigation Center in Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) in Monterrey, N.L. To be added to that list, please contact: pl500368@tecmtyvm.bitnet (Juana Maria Gomez Puertos) pl157961@tecmtyvm.bitnet (Fernando Careaga Sanchez) The newsgroup de.sci.ki.discussion is the German equivalent of comp.ai. The newsgroup de.sci.ki.announce is for announcements about AI. The newsgroup de.sci.ki.mod-ki is moderated by Hans-Werner Hein . The newsgroup aus.ai is the (unmoderated) Australian equivalent of comp.ai. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [3] Dial-up AI-related Bulletin Board Systems The primary AI-related dial-up bulletin board systems are: The Interocitor 214-258-1832 (Fido 1:124/2206) V.32bis (14.4kbps) SysOp: Steve Rainwater Hours: 24 Desc: AI CD-ROM submission site, general AI archive. ShadeTree BBS 412-244-9416 (Fido 1:129/124) V.22bis (2400bps) SysOp: Bill Keller Hours: 8:30pm-8:30am only Desc: Oriented toward beginners in the field. C.N.S. BBS 509-62706267 (Fido 1:347/303) USR HST (9600bps) SysOp: Wesley Elsberry Hours: 24 Desc: Best source for neural network related information. Fuzzy Logic Related BBS's: Aptronix FuzzyNet: 408-428-1883 N/8/1 1200-19,200 baud The Turning Point: 512-219-7828 N/8/1 DS/HST 1200-19,200 baud (LIBRARY) 512-219-7848 N/8/1 DS/HST 1200-19,200 baud Motorola FREEBBS: 512-891-3733 E/7/1 1200-9600 baud Electronic Design News (EDN) BBS: 617-558-4241 N/8/1 1200-9600 baud Neural Networks Related BBS's: Central Neural System, 509-627-6CNS (509-627-6267) 8-N-1, 300-14,400 bps v.32bis or HST or NEURAL_NET Echo from FidoNet 1:3407/2 Operated by Wesley R. Elsberry, PO Box 1187, Richland, WA 99352, E-mail: welsberr@sandbox.kenn.wa.us or elsberry@beta.tricity.wsu.edu. Elsberry will mail you files if you send him a DOS diskette, SASE, and a list of file names from his F3407_2.ZIP or CNS_FILE.LST index in the ARTICLES area. You'll need the InfoZip compression program, which is compatible with the PKZ204G distribution. Source code for this program for PC/Mac/Unix/Atari is included in the COMPRESS file area. CNS contains a variety of neural-network and AI code, mostly for PCs, but some for Unix and Mac. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [4] Artificial Life alife@cognet.ucla.edu The alife mailing list is for communications regarding artificial life, a formative interdisciplinary field involving computer science, the natural sciences, mathematics, medicine and others. Send mail to alife-request@cognet.ucla.edu to be added to the list. See also the UCLA Artificial Life Depository in question [4-0]. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [5] AI Applications to Human-Computer Interface Design STUDENTS.CHI: students.chi@xerox.com The STUDENTS.CHI mailing list has been established by the SIGCHI Extended Executive Committee (EEC) and Xerox (the corporate sponsor of the CHI email distribution lists). The objective of STUDENTS.CHI is to distribute information and share perspectives of particular concern to students involved in any aspect of the human factors and computing field. The Human-Computer Interaction field (HCI) focuses on the research, design, development and evaluation of human-computer communication and interaction. Other distribution lists include: announcements.chi Broadcasts messages of general interest educators.chi Discussion of education in HCI issues ii.chi Messages related to intelligent interfaces intercultural.chi Cross-cultural issues and SIGCHI socialaction.chi Discussion of CHI-related Social Issues techprogram.chi Long range planning of CHI conf. program vision.chi Discussions related to the future of SIGCHI To be added to a mailing list, send a list of the CHI lists that you want to receive to Nick Briggs at "Registrar.chi@xerox.com". AI-CHI: wiley!ai-chi@lll-lcc.llnl.gov All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions, etc., should be sent to wiley!ai-chi-request@LLL-LCC.LLNL.GOV. [This machine seems to be defunct. Anybody knowing the new location of the mailing list should send mail to mkant+ai-faq@cs.cmu.edu.] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [6] AI in Education AI-ED: ai-ed@sun.com (was ai-ed@sumex-aim.stanford.edu) Includes ICAI (intelligent computer aided instruction) and ITS (intelligent tutoring systems). All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions, etc., should be sent to ai-ed-request@sun.com. HUMANIST: humanist%utorepas.bitnet@cornellc.ccs.cornell.edu HUMANIST is an international mailing list for discussion of applications of computers to scholarship in the humanities. AI or NLP topics sometimes come up. Interested individuals should send a note together with a brief biography to the Coordinator in the following format: *Family-name, Given-names Title, mailing address(es), telephone number(s). Body of biography. This should not be a c.v. and need not be very detailed but should cover the full range of your professional activities and interests, both present and past. Mention other things at your discretion. Biographies vary considerably in length, though few are less than 100 words or more than 500. Coordinator: Willard McCarty NEWEDU-L: NEWEDU-L@vm.usc.edu NEWEDU-L is dedicated to exploring new paradigms in education and how they can be implemented, including, among other things, the role of artificial intelligence in education. 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Archived messages may be found at ftp.think.com in the files: mail/ca.archive* All other requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions, etc., should be sent to cellular-automata-request@think.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [11] Classification and Clustering class-l%sbccvm.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu Mailing list and file server for researchers in classification, clustering, phylogenetic estimation, and related areas of data analysis. 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RNA es una lista dedicada a todas aquellas personas interesadas en el desarrollo e investigacion en el campo de las Redes de Neuronas Artificiales. El proposito de esta lista es intercambiar informacion, favorecer el encuentro de personas con intereses afines, promover la formacion de grupos de trabajos y servir de apoyo a quienes se integran al area. 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Special interest group on cooperating knowledge based systems: ckbs@cs.keele.ac.uk. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [15] Intelligent Systems for Economics Digest (IE-Digest) IE-list@cs.ucl.ac.uk The IE-digest aims to act as a forum to exchange ideas on using `intelligent' techniques to model economic and financial systems. Calls for papers, paper announcements and queries are welcome. Techniques which were originally developed to model psychological and biological processes are now receiving considerable attention as tools for modelling and understanding economic and financial processes. These techniques, which include neural networks, genetic algorithms and expert systems are now being used in a wide variety of applications including the modelling of economic cycles, modelling of artificial economies, portfolio optimisation and credit evaluation. To be added to the list, send mail to IE-list-request@cs.ucl.ac.uk. An archive of back issues of the digest, as well as papers, bibliographies and software, may be obtained by anonymous ftp from cs.ucl.ac.uk:ie (128.16.5.31). List moderated by Suran Goonatilake, Dept. of Computer Science, University College London, Gower St., London WC1E 6BT, UK, . ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [16] Expert Systems in Agriculture ag-exp-l%ndsuvm1.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu To subscribe to ag-exp-l you should send a message to the internet address listserv%ndsuvm1.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu The body of the message should consist of: subscribe AG-EXP-L ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [17] Use of Computers in the Fine Arts fineart%ecs.umass.edu@relay.cs.net The FINEART Forum is dedicated to International collaboration between artists and scientists. It is subsidized by the International Society for the Arts, Science, and Technology (ISAST), 2020 Milvia, Berkeley, CA 94704. The purpose of this bulletin board is to disseminate information regarding the use of computers in the Fine Arts. One of the general areas of interest is Art & AI. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [18] Fuzzy Logic NAFIPS Fuzzy Logic Mailing List at Georgia State University: NAFIPS-L@gsuvm1.gsu.edu To subscribe send the following command to LISTSERV@GSUVM1.BITNET: SUB NAFIPS-L your_full_name where "your_full_name" is your real name, not your login Id. Non-BitNet users can join by sending the above command as the only line in the text/body of a message to LISTSERV@GSUVM1.GSU.EDU. (NAFIPS = "North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society") Postings to this mailing list are automatically archived. 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Genetic Programming: genetic-programming@cs.stanford.edu A mailing list for discussion of Genetic Programming. See Koza's book for details. All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions, etc., should be sent to genetic-programming-request@cs.stanford.edu The genetic-programming mailing list is archived on ftp.cc.utexas.edu:pub/genetic-programming/ along with some code and papers. Evolutionary Programming Email Digest: The digest is intended to promote discussions on a wide range of technical issues in evolutionary optimization, as well as provide information on upcoming conferences, events, journals, special issues, and other items of interest to the EP community. Discussions on all areas of evolutionary computation are welcomed, including artificial life, evolution strategies, and genetic algorithms. The digest is meant to encourage interdisciplinary communications. 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Mail requests to be added or deleted to ml-request@ics.uci.edu. Back issues may be FTP'd from ics.uci.edu in pub/ml-list/V/ or N.Z where X and N are the volume and number of the issue; ID: anonymous PASSWORD: Reinforcement Learning: reinforce@cs.uwa.edu.au This is an informal unmoderated mailing list devoted to reinforcement learning. To join, send mail to reinforce-request@cs.uwa.edu.au. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [23] Natural Language Processing Information Retrieval: irlist To subscribe send the following command to LISTSERV@UCCVMA.BITNET: SUB IR-L your_full_name where "your_full_name" is your real name, not your login Id. Non-BitNet users can join by sending the above command as the only line in the text/body of a message to LISTSERV%UCCVMA.BITNET@VM1.NODAK.EDU. Moderator: IRLUR%UCCMVSA.BITNET@VM1.NODAK.EDU Natural Language and Knowledge Representation (moderated): nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu (formerly nl-kr@cs.rochester.edu) Gatewayed to the newsgroup comp.ai.nlang-know-rep. BITNET subscribers: we now have a LISTSERVer for nl-kr. You may send submissions to NL-KR@RPIECS and any listserv-style administrative requests to LISTSERV@RPIECS. Back issues are available from host archive.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.10.18] in the files nl-kr/Vxx/Nyy (ie nl-kr/V01/N01 for V1#1), mail requests will not be promptly satisfied. If you can't reach `cs.rpi.edu' you may want to use `turing.cs.rpi.edu' instead. [The archives are in the process of moving to ftp.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.3.254] and gopher server cs.rpi.edu (port 70).] The NL-KR Digest will be slowly evolving into a citeable electronic journal. All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions, etc., should be sent to nl-kr-request@cs.rpi.edu. Natural Language Generation: siggen@cs.rpi.edu Parsing: sigparse@cs.cmu.edu Speech Interfaces: Electronic Communal Temporal Lobe (or ECTL) is a moderated mailing list for speech interface enthusiats. To subscribe, send a message with your name, institution, department, daytime phone and an email address to ectl-request@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca. If you have trouble with this mail address, call David Leip at (519) 824-4120 x3709 (office) x4297 (lab). ECTL has an anonymous ftp archive which is located at snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca [131.104.48.1] in /pub/ectl. Included in the archive are: all issues of ECTL, as well as a list of subscribers, lists of speech related products (s/w & h/w),and a list of speech related technical report abstracts. If you would like to contribute to the archive, please mail: ectl-sub@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca If you need information about how to ftp, or such things, please send mail to: ectl-request@snoehite.cis.uoguelph.ca Statistics, Natural Language, and Computing: empiricists@csli.stanford.edu Corpus-based studies of natural language, statistical natural language processing, methods that enable systems to deal with and scale up to real-world usage, as well as how the various techniques can be useful in such areas as information retrieval and human-computer interaction. All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions, etc., should be sent to empiricists-request@csli.stanford.edu Dependency Grammar dg@ai.uga.edu Syntactic theory, analysis, and parsing using dependency grammar (i.e., using links between individual words rather than a constituency tree). All requests for subscriptions or other assistance should be addressed to mcovingt@ai.uga.edu. 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SCHOLAR is distributed occasionally as the quantity of information received allows. Contributions should be sent to Joseph Raben . To add or remove yourself from the list, send a message to listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu. The sender of the message you send must be the name (E-mail address) you want to add or remove from the list. The text body of the message should be: SUBSCRIBE SCHOLAR your_full_name or: SIGNOFF SCHOLAR where your_full_name is your normal name, not your E-mail address. For technical assistance, send mail to . SCHOLAR files are available by anonymous ftp from jhuvm.hcf.jhu.edu (128.220.2.2). Use username scholar and type your login userid as a password. The index of SCHOLAR files is index.scholar. The files are also available by listserv. 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