Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!LAWS@SRI-AI.ARPA From: LAWS@SRI-AI.ARPA Newsgroups: net.ai Subject: AIList Digest V3 #2 Message-ID: <4141@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 02:39:38 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.4141 Posted: Fri Jan 11 02:39:38 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 05:06:45 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 381 From: AIList Moderator Kenneth LawsAIList Digest Friday, 11 Jan 1985 Volume 3 : Issue 2 Today's Topics: AI Tools - CommonLisp Documentation & Lisp in C or Pascal & Mac LISP & Xerox Machines, Seminars - AI, Employment and Income (CSLI) & On Comparatives and Superlatives (CSLI), Conferences - The Lexicon, Parsing, and Semantic Interpretation & IJCAI Student Positions & Expert Systems Hospitality Suites ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 85 09:21:37 EST From: cugini@NBS-VMS Subject: CommonLisp Documentation Does anyone have ordering information for the "official" CommonLisp specification (publisher, document number, cost, ...)? Thanks for any help. John Cugini ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jan 85 15:45 PST From: "S. Sridhar" Subject: Lisp in C or Pascal I desperately need to port a Lisp interpreter to the HP 9000 (or HP 3000) running 4.2 BSD Unix. For this purpose, I need that the interpreter be written in C, or Pascal or any other machine-independent language. Would anyone be kind enough to lemme know where I can get hold of such an interpreter (or even a compiler) ? Thanks a lot. --- S. Sridhar (sridhar@wsu) Washington State University ------------------------------ Date: 9 Jan 85 07:59 PST From: Newman.pasa@XEROX.ARPA Subject: Mac LISP Pardon me, I would like to correct the error in the posting I made earlier. I quoted the ExperLogo brochure when I meant to quote the ExperLisp brochure. What the relevant part of my posting should have said was: 1) There is a company in Santa Barbara called ExperTelligence Inc. who are purportedly developing a LISP (called EXPERLISP) for the MacIntosh. The brochure I have says it "will be available for shipment in late 1984". 'Nuff Said. My apologies to ExperTelligence. >>Dave ------------------------------ Date: Wed 9 Jan 85 10:45:07-EST From: Wang Zeep Subject: Mac LISP ExperIntelligence is now predicting an April '84 delivery for their Macintosh Common Lisp subset. It should be lexically-scoped (unlike GC Lisp for the PC) and will include a 68000 native compiler. Development is being done on a Symbolics LISPM and there will be some sort of object/class system. They have also advertised a LOGO. As I have never seen an Oct. 84 date for the LISP, I have a feeling something got garbled in transmission. The above information is straight from their technical support staff. Jan '85 MacWorld has a quick bite on ExperLisp in their news section. If this is for real (all of my info comes from the company, not from a neutral source), I'll get a copy and post a review of it. They seemed nice enough.... wz ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Jan 85 14:54:59 EST From: cowan@GE-CRD Subject: Re: Mac Lisp Machines There is a company in Santa Barbara called ExperTelligence Inc. who are purportedly developing a LISP (called EXPERLISP) for the MacIntosh. The brochure I have says it "is available at your local Apple Dealer beginning October, 1984". 'Nuff Said. I met one of the ExperLisp developers at AAAI; they are making effective use of a Symbolics (they wrote a mac cross-compiler) and their goals are quite ambitious. A SCHEME-like lisp interpreter was running in August; I guess now they are working on the compiler and class inheritance facilities. December's "release date" was March, but if they really are developing a truly easy to use object-oriented window system, it will take longer. When the gap between current date and "release date" narrows to within two weeks, that's when to get next month's orders ready. On a more optimistic note, it's pretty certain that sometime in 1986, an Apple 68020 product running a completed Experlisp will be available. If the lisp is efficient, benchmarks indicate [see Deering, p. 73 of AAAI-84] that the combination could be 1/4 the speed of a 1984 Symbolics. Rich ------------------------------ Date: 9 Jan 85 09:48:20 PST (Wednesday) From: Conde.osbunorth@XEROX.ARPA Subject: Re: Is Xerox Punting D-Machines? Never! The Dallas operation made typewriters or something, and they are moving to sunny Southern California. D-Machine will still be made. DSC ------------------------------ Date: 9 Jan 85 09:46:44 PST (Wednesday) From: GMeredith.es@XEROX.ARPA Subject: Xerox D-Machines Alive and Well The manufacture of the Xerox Dandelions has been moved to the building across the street from us here in El Segundo, CA. The production line is in full swing and putting out high quality units. Xerox has not given us any indication that the corporation will be getting out of the lisp field. In fact, a recent full page ad touting a 15 year headstart in AI experience indicates otherwise. Guy ------------------------------ Date: 10 Jan 85 15:39:01 EST From: DIETZ@RUTGERS.ARPA Subject: False Alarm on DLions Xerox isn't going to stop making D machines. They are apparently quite profitable. They are also continuing to make Stars, and will reportedly come out with a much cheaper Star soon. Dallas is being pared back, but apparently not closed. P. Dietz ------------------------------ Date: Wed 9 Jan 85 17:21:34-PST From: Emma Pease Subject: Seminar - AI, Employment and Income (CSLI) [Excerpted from the CSLI Newsletter by Laws@SRI-AI.] ABSTRACT OF NEXT WEEK'S TINLUNCH AI, Employment and Income In a recent article in the AI Magazine, Nils Nilsson explores the profound effects Artificial Intelligence is likely to have on employment and the distribution of income. He presents an economic and a psychological reason for his opinion that we should greet the work-eliminating consequences of AI with enthusiasm, since they will liberate people from unfulfilling work without necessarily harming them economically. The article has drawn a number of interesting responses, some of which have been published in a later issue of the AI Magazine. This issue also contains a reply by Nils Nilsson to the readers' letters. The variety of arguments, in the article and the letters, both for and against an optimistic view of the social impact of AI will serve as the basis for our TINLUNCH discussion. Nils Nilsson will be present. ------------------------------ Date: Wed 9 Jan 85 17:21:34-PST From: Emma Pease Subject: Seminar - On Comparatives and Superlatives (CSLI) [Excerpted from the CSLI Newsletter by Laws@SRI-AI.] ABSTRACT OF THIS WEEK'S COLLOQUIUM ``On Comparatives and Superlatives'' Consider a phrasal comparative like (1). (1) Little died earlier than Dolphy. (`Phrasal' comparatives, as opposed to `clausal' ones, are those which instead of a clause have a single phrase after ``than.'') There are (at least) two ways of approaching the semantic analysis of (1). One is to view ``than Dolphy'' as essentially an elliptical description for a certain degree, viz. the degree x such that Dolphy died x-early, and to construe the whole sentence as basically a comparison between that degree and another one, namely the degree y such that Little died y-early. The other approach is to read (1) as primarily a comparison between two people, Little and Dolphy, who are being compared with respect to a certain `dimension'. The dimension is earliness-of-death and may be formally represented as a function from people to degrees which maps every person x onto the degree y such that x died y-early. This talk adopts the second approach and explores its empirical and theoretical implications. While the scopes of the comparison operators themselves seem to obey constraints that have emerged from studies of quantifier scope, this is not the case for the putative scopes of certain other phrases. To accommodate this finding, I will draw on recent work by Rooth and suggest a refinement of the analysis which recognizes a distinction between scope-assignment proper and something like association-to-focus. ---Irene Heim ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jan 85 12:10:32 est From: bellcore!walker@Berkeley (Don Walker) Subject: Conference on The Lexicon, Parsing, and Semantic Interpretation THE LEXICON, PARSING, AND SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION CUNY Graduate Center, Auditorium 33 West 42nd Street New York, NY 10036 THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1985 8:30 Registration with coffee 8:50 Welcoming Steven Cahn, Provost, CUNY Graduate School John Moyne, CUNY Graduate Center and Queens College 9:00 Linguistic Lexicography Terence Langendoen, CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College 10:00 How to Misread a Dictionary George Miller, Princeton University 11:00 Knowledge Management Support for Language Processing Charles Kellogg, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp. 12:00 Lunch 1:30 Customizing the TQA Lexicon for Semantic Disambiguation Fredrick Damerau and David Johnson, IBM Yorktown Research 2:30 Parse Trees as Lexical Projections Joan Bachenko and Eileen Fitzpatrick, Bell Laboratories 3:30 Requirements on the Lexicon for Parsing and Generation Robert Ingria, Bolt Beranek and Newman 4:30 Discussion 6:00 Dinner at Peng Tengs, 219 East 44th Street FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1985 8:45 Coffee 9:00 The Nuts and Bolts of Lexical Access Martin Kay, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 10:00 Text Files as Sources for Creating an Augmented Dictionary Robert Amsler and Donald Walker, Bell Communications Research 11:00 The Lexical Base for Semantic Interpretation in a PROLOG Parser Roy Byrd and Michael McCord, IBM Yorktown Research 12:00 Lunch 1:30 Lexicons for Conceptual Analyzers Michael Lebowitz, Columbia University 2:30 The LSP Lexicon for Free Text Information Formatting Susanne Wolff, Joyce London and Naomi Sager, New York University 3:30 Using a Lexicon of Canonical Graphs in Parsing John Sowa, IBM Systems Research Institute 4:30 Closing Advance registration is not necessary, and no fees will be charged for the workshop. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Terence Langendoen, (212) 790-4574 John Sowa, (212) 309-1493, sowa.yktvmt.ibm@csnet-relay Don Walker, (201) 829-4312, bellcore!walker@berkeley Cosponsored by the City University of New York, IBM Systems Research Institute, and Bell Communications Research. ------------------------------ Date: 4 Jan 1985 12:34:16-EST From: Linda.Quarrie@CMU-RI-ISL1 Subject: IJCAI Student Volunteer Positions Available The Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be held from August 18 to 24, 1985, at the University of California at Los Angeles. The I.J.C.A.I. Local Arrangements Committee is looking for student volunteers for the August 1985 conference. Volunteers work approximately 8 hours during the conference. Tasks include manning information desks, checking badges at sessions, and distributing conference materials. In exchange volunteers receive a staff T-shirt, free registration at the conference, proceedings, and free admission to any tutorials at which the volunteer works. Additional benefits include a party and great opportunity for meeting people from all over the world. Graduate students are encouraged to volunteer, and undergraduates are welcome. Names will be taken for the next few months, with final assignments made in July. Tentative volunteers are welcome. Volunteers will be taken on a first come/first served basis, so reply now! Reply to: Linda Quarrie arpanet address: lindaq@cmu-ri-isl1.arpa snail mail: Linda Quarrie The Robotics Institute Carnegie-Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 phone: (412)578-8815 (412)521-1968 ------------------------------ Date: 9 Jan 1985 8:55:30 EST (Wednesday) From: Charles Howell Subject: Hospitality Suites for Expert Systems Conference I am helping with local arrangements for the Expert Systems in Government Symposium, which is being held October 23 .. 25 1985 in McLean VA. The conference will consist of a two day symposium preceded by an optional tutorial day. The conference objective is to allow the developers and implementors of expert systems in government agencies to exchange information and ideas for the purpose of improving the quality of existing and future expert systems in the government sector. The conference is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and the MITRE Corporation in cooperation with AIAA/NCS. We are expecting a wide variety of people to attend the conference. I am specifically interested in hardware and software vendors who would like to display their products during the conference. The conference will be held in the Tyson's Westpark Hotel. The hotel has a number of suites available for vendor "hospitality suites". If you are interested, please contact me. I'll put you in touch with the appropriate person at the Tyson's Westpark, and I'll also keep track of the amount of interest from vendors. If there is a lot, we may explore a block reservation of some suites for the period of the conference. Chuck Howell (703) 883-6080 U.S.P.S.: The MITRE Corp., Howell at MITRE 1820 Dolley Madison Blvd., McLean, VA 22102 Mail Code W459 ------------------------------ End of AIList Digest ********************