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- From: vander@flab.fujitsu.co.jp (Mike van der Velden)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.research
- Subject: Summary: Blackboards
- Message-ID: <16c79dINNfh@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 23:36:12 GMT
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- Last month, I wrote:
-
- > Does anyone know where I might find some papers on "blackboards"?
- > A scan of the company's library's journals was unsuccessful.
- >
- > If you respond via e-mail, I will gladly summarize for the net
- > if there is interest.
-
- And now the promised summary. Thanks to the following people for
- taking the time to respond.
-
- ken@cs.cornell.edu (Ken Birman)
- Sarr Blumson <sarr@citi.umich.edu>
- dhd@exnet.co.uk (Damon)
- Hidehiro Ishii <ishii@tsl.cl.nec.co.jp>
-
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- From: ken@cs.cornell.edu (Ken Birman)
-
- > The ISIS system once supported a distributed blackboard interface.
- > A technical report on this is available and is listed below.
- >
- > In practical terms, most people who use ISIS work with the ISIS
- > "news" program which has the same capabilities. Literature on this
- > product is available on request from sla@isis.com
- >
- > ISIS is used heavily in many settings by a number of large companies.
- > This includes some in Japan, although perhaps not at Fujitsu.
-
-
- TR91-1257* Design Alternatives for Process Group Membership & Multicast.
- Kenneth Birman, Robert Cooper, and Barry Gleeson. December 1991.
- Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
-
- * can be copied from ftp.cs.cornell.edu using anonymous, binary ftp,
- from the ``pub'' subdirectory.
-
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- From: Sarr Blumson <sarr@citi.umich.edu>
-
- > As far as I know, the idea is first discussed in a paper by Raj Reddy and
- > others describing the Hearsay-II speech recognition system in Computing
- > Sruveys sometime in the late '70s (definitely before 1982). Sorry I don't
- > have a more specific citation.
-
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- From: dhd@exnet.co.uk (Damon)
-
- > Some old references:
- >
- > Blackboard Systems
- > Eds: Englemore, R., and Morgan, T.
- > Addison-Wesley 1988
- > ISBN 0-201-17431-6
- >
- > A Blackboard Shell in Prolog
- > Jones, J., and Millington, M.
- > Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- > June 1985
- >
- > Blackboard Systems in
- > Artificial Intelligence: Concepts and Applications in Engineering
- > Ed: Mirzai, A.
- > Koran-Page 1989
-
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- From: Hidehiro Ishii <ishii@tsl.cl.nec.co.jp>
-
- > I don't really know about blackboards, but Prof. Partha Dasgupta at
- > Arizona University says blackboards are used as meanings of IPC in
- > their Clouds OS. Their papers may tell bibliographies of blackboards.
- --
- Mike van der Velden
- Distributed Systems Laboratory, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan
- e-mail: vander@tokyo.hi.flab.fujitsu.co.jp
-
- ps. If you send me a picture postcard Mike van der Velden
- from your area to the address at Fujitsu Unoki Dormitory, room 227
- right, I'll send you one from Tokyo. 2-17-18 Unoki, Ota-ku, Tokyo 146
- Postcards must be received by Japan
- November 15, 1992
-