Public (software) Library
Programming Library

Descriptions and Compilation Copyright 1993 Nelson Ford
Duplication, reprinting and distribution of these descriptions is restricted.
See LICENSE.DOC in the PSL_NEWS directory for complete information

=====Artificial Intelligence


[Alphanet]
Alphanet (Thinking Software, Inc.; $?) is an AI demonstration of Neural
Networks that teaches your computer to recognize letters and numbers.
Fascinating information about this branch of Artificial Intelligence
research is provided.

[AI_TUTOR]
AI-Tutor (Thinking Software, Inc.; $0) is an introduction to Artificial
Intelligence. It discusses what AI is, all about Neural Networks, about
Expert Systems, and about Natural Language. It also contains a tutorial on
the PC and essential DOS commands.

[AVATAR]
Avatar I (AMC Publishing; $0) is an expert system editor and inference
engine (a "knowledge data base" or "artificial intelligence system" which
can be queried in English). Avatar features an editor that guides you
through creating the knowledge base structure. Although Avatar is in the
programming section, no programming knowledge or experience is required.

[Expert]
Expert (Walton, Stephen; $?) is an AI-type program. It allows you to create
a "knowledge base" as easily as you would a spreadsheet template. It is
easy to use.

[Extol]
Extol (Taylor, Michael C.; $25) is a programming language designed
especially for Computer-Aided Instruction (CAI). It is particularly
well-suited for tutorials and instruction in non-mathematical domains.

[PCLisp]
PCLisp (Ashwood-Smith, Peter; $15) while small, is capable of running a
pretty good subset of Franz LISP. The functions are supposed to perform in
the same way as Franz with a few exceptions made for efficiencies sake.
Other features include full garbage collection of all types, heap
management, access to some MSDOS BIOS graphics routines, over 160 built-in
functions, stack overflow detection and full error checking on all calls,
and more.

[XLisp]
XLisp (Betz, David Michael; $0) is an experimental, artificial intelligence
programming language combining some of the features of Common Lisp with an
object-oriented extension capability. It was implemented to allow
experimentation with object-oriented programming on small computers.

[XXXPert]
XXXPert (Thurber, Stephen; $50) is an expert system facility (editor and
inference engine).

[PIE_BR]
PIE (Ruggles, Brent; $0) is a Prolog interpreter with several examples,
including Eliza and Turtle Graphics. PIE also does string handling,
windowing and real arithmetic.