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Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands, or Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 358, Accord Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358. COMPUTER VISION, GRAPHICS AND IMAGE PROCESSING Published monthly, 1983-1990, now defunct. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Another optimization to to maintain a list of the cells that changed. Conway has demonstrated that it is possible to construct the basic building blocks of a computer from Life using modified glider guns. See the last chapter of Elwyn R. Berlekamp, John H. Conway, and Richard K. Guy, "Winning Ways", Academic Press, New York, 1982, ISBN 0-120911-507. for details. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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: [1-6] History of AI? The appendic to Ray Kurzweil's book "Intelligent Machines" gives a timeline of the history of AI. Charniak and McDermott's book "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence", Addison-Wesley, 1985 contains a number of historical pointers. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Note that the research need not be conducted in the school's computer science department for the school to be listed -- in some cases we've included schools where the research is being conducted in a different department or special laboratory. 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 genealogy of AI thesis-advising relationships is available by anonymous ftp from cs.ucsd.edu:pub/rik/ as aigen.rpt. Although intended to complement citation analysis and free-text information retrieval as tools for understanding the AI community and their connections to other disciplines, it may be useful to prospective graduate students. For example, it may help you understand the historical context of a given professor's perspective. 2,600 MS and PhD theses have been tabulated so far. If you'd like to contribute additional listings (including year, title, abstract, school, advisor, committee members, and subsequent employment), write to Rik Belew or fax 619-534-7029, for the questionnaire. (A copy of the questionaire and more information is available in cs.ucsd.edu:pub/rik/announce.t.) 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. 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