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- ;;; Answers to Questions about Artificial Intelligence *************
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- ;;; Written by Mark Kantrowitz
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- If you think of questions that are appropriate for this FAQ, or would
- like to improve an answer, please send email to mkant+ai-faq@cs.cmu.edu.
-
- *** Topics Covered:
-
- Part 1:
- [1-0] What is the purpose of this newsgroup?
- [1-1] AI-related Associations and Journals
- [1-2] How do I get a copy of the proceedings to conference <x>?
- [1-4] What are the rules for the game of "Life"?
- [1-5] What AI competitions exist?
- [1-8] Commercial AI products.
- [1-9] Glossary of AI terms.
- [1-10] What are the top schools in AI?
- [1-11] How can I get the email address for Joe or Jill Researcher?
-
- Part 2 (AI-related Newsgroups and Mailing Lists):
- List of all known AI-related newsgroups, mailing lists, and
- electronic bulletin board systems.
-
- Part 3 (Bibliography):
- Bibliography of introductory texts, overviews and references
- Addresses and phone numbers for major AI publishers
-
- Part 4 (FTP Resources):
- [4-0] General Information about FTP Resources for AI
- [4-1] FTP Repositories
- [4-2] FTP and Other Resources
-
- Part 5 (FTP Resources):
- [5-1] AI Bibliographies available by FTP
- [5-2] AI Technical Reports available by FTP
- [5-3] Where can I get a machine readable dictionary, thesaurus, and
- other text corpora?
- [5-4] List of Smalltalk implementations.
-
- Part 6 (Expert System Shells):
- [6-1] Introduction and Acknowledgements
- [6-2] Other Sources of Information
- [6-3] Free/Cheap Expert System Shells
- [6-4] Commercial Expert System Shells
-
- Search for [#] to get to question number # quickly.
-
- *** Recent changes:
-
- ;;; 1.9
- ;;; 19-JUL-93 mk Corrected Vision List mailing list addres.
- ;;; 20-JUL-93 mk Corrected JAIR entry to match current proposal.
- ;;; 20-JUL-93 mk Updated CLIPS entry.
- ;;; 20-JUL-93 mk Updated ILOG RULES and SMECI entries in part 6.
- ;;; 10-AUG-93 mk Added entry on CELP to part 4.
- ;;; 10-AUG-93 mk Entry on AAAI Robot Building Contest.
- ;;; 10-AUG-93 mk Added entry on Kappa PC mailing list to part 2.
-
- *** Introduction:
-
- Certain questions and topics come up frequently in the various network
- discussion groups devoted to and related to Artificial Intelligence
- (AI). This file/article is an attempt to gather these questions and
- their answers into a convenient reference for AI researchers. It is
- posted on a monthly basis. The hope is that this will cut down on the
- user time and network bandwidth used to post, read and respond to the
- same questions over and over, as well as providing education by
- answering questions some readers may not even have thought to ask.
-
- The latest version of this file is available via anonymous FTP from CMU:
-
- To obtain the file from CMU, connect by anonymous ftp to any CMU CS
- machine (e.g., ftp.cs.cmu.edu [128.2.206.173]), using username
- "anonymous" and password "name@host". The files ai-faq-1.text,
- ai-faq-2.text, ai-faq-3.text, ai-faq-4.text, ai-faq-5.text and
- ai-faq-6.text are located in the directory
- /afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/ai-repository/ai/pubs/faqs/
- [Note: You must cd to this directory in one atomic operation, as
- some of the superior directories on the path are protected from
- access by anonymous ftp.] If your site runs the Andrew File System,
- you can just cp the file directly without bothering with FTP.
-
- The FAQ postings are also archived in the periodic posting archive on
- rtfm.mit.edu [18.70.0.224]. Look in the anonymous ftp directory
- /pub/usenet/news.answers/ in the subdirectory ai-faq/. If you do not
- have anonymous ftp access, you can access the archive by mail server
- as well. Send an E-mail message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
- with "help" and "index" in the body on separate lines for more
- information.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: [1-0] What is the purpose of this newsgroup?
-
- The newsgroup comp.ai exists for general discussion of topics related
- to Artificial Intelligence. For example, possible topics can
- include (but are not necessarily limited to):
- announcements of AI books and products
- discussion of AI programs and tools
- questions about AI techniques
- problems implementing an AI technique
- Postings should be of general interest to the AI community. See also
- part 2 of the FAQ for a list of other more specialized discussion lists.
-
- Every so often, somebody posts an inflammatory message, such as
- Will computers every really think?
- AI hasn't done anything worthwhile.
- These "religious" issues serve no real purpose other than to waste
- bandwidth. If you feel the urge to respond to such a post, please do
- so through a private e-mail message, or post redirecting follow-ups to
- comp.ai.philosophy.
-
- We've tried to minimize the overlap with the FAQ postings to the
- comp.lang.lisp, comp.lang.prolog and comp.ai.neural-nets newsgroups,
- so if you don't find what you're looking for here, we suggest you try
- the FAQs for those newsgroups. These FAQs should be available by
- anonymous ftp from rtfm.mit.edu [18.70.0.224] in subdirectories of
- /pub/usenet/ or by sending a mail message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
- with subject "help".
-
- The Lisp FAQ is also available by anonymous ftp from the same ftp
- location as the AI FAQ and from ftp.think.com:/public/think/lisp/.
-
- Information about Prolog may be obtained from two sources: The Prolog
- FAQ, which is posted twice a month to the newsgroup comp.lang.prolog
- by Jamie Andrews <jamie@cs.sfu.ca>, and the Prolog Resource Guide,
- which is posted to the newsgroup comp.lang.prolog once a month, and is
- available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.cmu.edu [128.2.206.173] in the
- directory /afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/ai-repository/ai/pubs/faqs/
- as the files prolog-resource-guide-1.text and prolog-resource-guide-2.text.
-
- The Robotics FAQ is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.cmu.edu
- [128.2.206.173] in the directory /user/nivek/robotics-faq as the files
- part1 and part2. To obtain a copy by email, send a message to
- mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu containing the following lines:
- send usenet/news.answers/robotics-faq/part1
- send usenet/news.answers/robotics-faq/part2
- On UUCP, it is available at
- uunet!/archive/usenet/news.answers/robotics-faq/
- as the files part1.Z and part2.Z (or by ftp from ftp.uu.net
- [137.39.1.9] in /archive/usenet/news.answers/robotics-faq/).
-
- Information about object-oriented programming can be obtained in the
- newsgroups comp.object, comp.lang.clos, and comp.lang.smalltalk.
- Information about object-oriented databases can be obtained in the
- survey compiled by Stewart Clamen, which may be found either in the
- comp.object FAQ posting or in byron.sp.cs.cmu.edu:clamen/evolution-summary
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: [1-1] AI-related Associations and Journals
-
- Associations:
-
- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AAAI)
- AAAI, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025.
- 415-328-3123, info@aaai.org, membership@aaai.org
- Membership includes AI Magazine:
- $40 regular, $20 student, $60 institution (US/Canadian)
- $65 regular, $45 student, $85 institution (Foreign)
- AAAI has several special interest groups (SIGs), including one
- on manufacturing and one on medicine.
-
- ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY (ACM)
- ACM, 1515 Broadway, New York, NY 10036.
- Member Services, 11 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036.
- 212-869-7440. Fax 212-944-1318. Email: acmhelp@acmvm.bitnet.
- $75 regular, $22 student (includes Communications of the ACM)
- $15 ($8 students) extra for SIGART membership (gets Sigart Bulletin;
- non-member subscription is $41)
- $12 ($7 students) extra for Lisp Pointers.
- $15 ($10 students) extra for Computing Surveys
- $34 ($29 students) extra for Computing Reviews
-
- INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERS (IAKE)
- IAKE, 11820 Parklawn Drive, Suite 302, Rockville, MD 20852.
- 301-948-5390
- $65 regular, $30 students.
-
- ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (ACL)
- Natural language processing research and applications.
- Members receive the journal Computational Linguistics, ISSN 0891-2017.
- Regular membership $30 ($20 full-time students not earning a regular
- income; $20 for retired), $10 extra for first class/air postage in
- North America, $20 elsewhere. For more information write to
- Dr. Donald E. Walker (ACL), Bellcore, 445 South Street, MRE 2A379,
- Morristown, NJ 07960, USA, call +1-201-829-4312, fax +1-201-829-5981,
- or send email to acl@bellcore.com. Institutions must subscribe to
- the journal through MIT Press Journals, 55 Hayward Street,
- Cambridge, MA 02142, USA, +1-617-253-2889.
-
- INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS (IEEE)
- IEEE Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, PO Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855.
- 1-800-678-IEEE, 201-981-0060
- IEEE membership is $95 regular ($28 students)
- For membership in the IEEE Computer Society, add $22 ($13 students).
- $20 for IEEE Expert (Intelligent Systems and their Applications)
- $12 for Transactions on Neural Networks
- $12 for Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
- $15 for Transactions on Robotics and Automation
- $19 for Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
- $24 for Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
-
- INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF APPLIED INTELLIGENCE (ISAI)
- Membership is $25 for associate members and $75 for full members.
- Full members receive a subscription to the International Journal of
- Applied Intelligence (normal institutional rate is $217).
- To apply contact Graham Forsyth, secretary, forsyth@fencer.cis.dsto.gov.au.
- Or write to ISAI, Department of Computer Science, Southwest Texas
- State University, San Marcos, TX 78666-4616, phone 512-245-3409, fax
- 512-245-3804, or send email to Moonis Ali, president, <ma04@swtexas.bitnet>.
- Working groups include CIM -- Learning in Intelligent Manufacturing
- Systems, Automatic Failure Diagnostics, Production Management,
- Finance, Building Architecture, Scheduling and Planning.
-
- COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY
- Membership: $50 individuals, $25 student. Add $15 overseas postage.
- Members receive a copy of the journal Cognitive Science without
- additional charge. Write to Alan Lesgold, Secretary/Treasurer,
- Cognitive Science Society, LRDC, University of Pittsburgh, 3939
- O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, fax 1-412-624-9149, email
- al+@pitt.edu.
-
- INTERNATIONAL FUZZY SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION (IFSA)
- Membership $180, includes a subscription to the International Journal
- of Fuzzy Sets and Systems, ISSN 0165-0114.
- Write to Prof. Philippe Smets, University of Brussels, IRIDIA, 50 av.
- F. Roosevelt, CP 194/6, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
-
- NORTH AMERICAN FUZZY INFORMATION PROCESSING SOCIETY (NAFIPS)
- For more information, contact Thomas H. Whalen, Secretary/Treasurer,
- Decision Sciences Department, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303,
- 404-651-4080, <qmdthw@gsuvm1.gsu.edu>. NAFIPS holds a conference and
- a workshop in alternating years.
-
- SOCIETY FOR MACHINES AND MENTALITY
- James H. Moor, Treasurer, Society for Machines and Mentality,
- Department of Philosophy, Dartmouth College, 6035 Thornton Hall,
- Hanover, NH 03755-3592 U.S.A.
- 603-646-2155. Email: James.H.Moor@Dartmouth.edu
- $5 Membership only
- $50 Membership with subscription to _Minds and Machines_
-
- CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES OF INTELLIGENCE (CSCSI)
- Members receive a subscription to Canadian Artificial Intelligence.
- CSCSI/SCEIO, c/o CIPS, 430 King Street West, Suite 205, Toronto,
- Ontario M5V 1L5, CANADA
- 416-593-4040, fax 416-593-5184
- Membership: $40 individuals, $30 students
-
- JAPANESE ASSOCIATION FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (JSAI)
- OS Bldg. Suite #402
- 4-7 Tsukudo-cho, Shinjuku-ku
- Tokyo 162 Japan
- Phone: +81-3-5261-3401
- Telfax: +81-3-5261-3402
-
- SOCIEDAD MEXICANA DE INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL (SMIA)
- Ofelia Cervantes V, Apartado Postal #5, Universidad de las Americas,
- Sta. Catarina Martir Puebla 72820, MEXICO
- (52-22) 47-0522, (52-22) 47-4319
-
- AUSTRIAN SOCIETY FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (ASAI)
- Postfach 177, Vienna, A-1014, AUSTRIA
- (43) 1 535-32810
-
- INTERNATIONAL NEURAL NETWORK SOCIETY (INNS)
- Membership is $55/year for non-students and $45/year for students, and
- includes a subscription to "Neural Networks", the official journal of
- the society.
- INNS Membership, P.O. Box 491166, Ft. Washington, MD 20749
-
- INTERNATIONAL STUDENT SOCIETY FOR NEURAL NETWORKS (ISSNNets)
- Membership is $5 per year.
- ISSNNet, Inc., P.O. Box 15661, Boston, MA 02215
- See also comp.org.issnnet.
-
- JAPANESE NEURAL NETWORK SOCIETY (JNNS)
- Department of Engineering, Tamagawa University,
- 6-1-1, Tamagawa Gakuen, Machida City, Tokyo,
- 194 JAPAN
- Phone: +81 427 28 3457
- Fax: +81 427 28 3597
-
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ITALIAN ASSOCIATION (AIIA)
- c/o Fondazione Ugo Borboni, Roma - Italy
- Contact: Oliviero Stock <stock@irst.it>
- Tel: +39 6 54803428
- Fax: +39 6 54804405
-
- THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LAW (IAAIL)
- Contact: Prof. Carole Hafner, IAAIL, College of Computer Science,
- Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 USA
- Membership: $60 Regular, $35 student (incuding AI and Law Journal)
- $25 Reduced (without journal subscription)
-
- ASSOCIATION FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION IN THE AMERICAS (AMTA)
- 655 Fifteenth Street, NW, Suite 310, Washington, DC 20005
- Membership: $40 Associate members, $65 active members, Institutional $200,
- Corporate $400. Members receive the MT News International and the
- MT Yellow Pages.
-
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND SIMULATION OF BEHAVIOR (AISB)
- c/o Alison White, School of Cognitive Science, University of Sussex,
- Brighton BN1 9QH
- Tel: +44-273-678379
- email: alisonw@cogs.susx.ac.uk
- Published the AISB Newsletter.
-
- Newsletters:
-
- The Computists' Communique is a weekly online newsletter for AI/IS/CS
- scientists. It covers research and funding news; career, consulting,
- and entrepreneurial issues; AI-related job postings and journal calls;
- FTPable & other resource leads; market trends; analysis and
- discussion. The Communique serves members of Computists
- International, a professional mutual-aid society. Membership in
- Computists International runs $135 for new professional members, $55
- for students and the unemployed. There is a 25% discount for Canada,
- Western Europe, the UK, Japan, and Australia; other countries and
- territories outside the U.S. get a 50% discount. For more
- information, contact Dr. Kenneth I. Laws (laws@ai.sri.com),
- 415-493-7390, 4064 Sutherland Drive, Palo Alto, CA 94303.
-
- Organizations -- Robotics Related:
-
- For a list of organizations that are robotics related, see the FAQ
- posting for comp.robotics, maintained by Kevin Dowling <nivek@cs.cmu.edu>.
-
- Note: Some Journals are listed with the publishing organization above.
-
- Journals -- General:
-
- JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH (JAIR)
- JAIR is published by the AI Access Foundation, a nonprofit corporation
- devoted to the electronic dissemination of scientific results in AI.
- JAIR is a refereed publication, covering all areas of AI, that will be
- distributed free of charge over the internet by ftp, electronic mail,
- and in the newsgroups comp.ai.jair.announce (announcements and
- abstracts of new papers) and comp.ai.jair.papers (papers, code, and other
- materials, distinguished by subject line). Both will be moderated,
- with discussion occurring in comp.ai. In addition, each complete
- volume of JAIR will be published by Morgan Kaufmann. JAIR aims to
- have a review turn-around time of about 5 weeks, with electronic
- publication occurring immediately after the editor receives the final
- version of an accepted article. JAIR will begin accepting submissions
- on June 15, 1993. Further information regarding submissions can be
- obtained by sending a request to jair@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov. [The
- newsgroups have not yet been created.]
-
- JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
- Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0824-7935
- Basil Blackwell Publishers, Journal Subscription Department,
- 3 Cambridge Centre, Cambridge, MA 02142 or call 1-800-835-6770.
- Blackwell Publishers, 108 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1JF, England.
- Individual subscriptions are $85 in North America and $100 in the rest of
- the world. Institutional subscriptions are $175 and $190, respectively.
- A reduced rate of $40 is available to members of the Canadian
- Information Processing Society.
-
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REVIEW (Survey and Tutorial Journal)
- Kluwer Academic Publishers,
- 101 Philip Drive, Norwell, MA 02061, 617-871-6600, fax 617-871-6528.
- PO Box 358, Accord Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358.
- Email: kluwer@world.std.com
- The institutional subscription rate is $130 per volume (4 issues).
-
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
- Published 18 times annually. ISSN 0004-3702.
- $80 individuals (must be a member of one of the major AI societies).
- To order in the US, write to AAAI, AI Journal, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo
- Park, CA 94025-3496, or to Elsevier Science Publishing, 655 Avenue of
- the Americas, New York, NY 10017, 212-633-3827. Outside the US,
- contact Elsevier Science Publishers, Attn: Ursula van Dijk, PO Box 103,
- 1000 AC Amsterdam, The Netherlands, or call +31-20-5862-608.
-
- COGNITIVE SCIENCE
- Ablex Publishing Company,
- 355 Chestnut Street, Norwood, NJ 07648
- 201-767-8450, fax 201-767-6717
- $50 individual, $125 institution.
-
- JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (JETAI)
- Annual subscription, 1992/3, $163; personal subscription, $82.
- To order in the US, write to Taylor and Francis, Inc., 1900 Frost
- Road, Suite 101, Bristol, PA 19007-1598. Or contact the home office:
- Taylor and Francis Ltd, Rankine Road, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK
- RG24 0PR (0256) 840366. ISSN 0952-813X
-
- SPANG ROBINSON REPORT ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
- Published monthly. ISSN 0885-9957.
- Subscriptions: $405 US & Canada, $455 elsewhere.
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158-0012,
- 212-850-6347, fax 212-850-6088.
-
- MINDS AND MACHINES
- Journal for Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science
- ISSN 0924-6495
- Subscription information and sample copies available from:
- Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht,
- The Netherlands. In the US, write to Kluwer Academic Publishers, 101
- Philip Drive, Norwell, MA 02061.
-
- COMPUTERS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
- I. Plander (ed.)
- VEDA Publishing House of the Slovak Academy of Sciences,
- Klemenosova 19, 814 30 Bratislava, Slovakia.
- Published bimonthly, order from:
- Lange & Springer GmbH, Foller Str.2, P.O.B. 10 16 10,
- 5000 Koln 1, Germany.
-
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AI TOOLS
- World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc.
- 1060 Main Street, River Edge, NJ 07661
- Tel: 1-800-227-7562
-
- ANNALS OF MATHEMATICS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
- J.C. Baltzer AG Scientific Publishing Company, Wettsteinplatz 10,
- CH-4058 Basel, Switzerland, tel 41-61-691-89-25, fax 41-61-692-42-62.
- In the United States, send orders to J. C. Baltzer AG, Scientific
- Publishing Company, PO Box 8577, Red Bank, NJ 07701-8577.
- Subscriptions: Individuals Sfr. 130.00/$80.00
-
- OBJECT-ORIENTED SYSTEMS
- Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0969-9767.
- Subscriptions: Institutions US$210/120 pounds EC/130 pounds RoW
- Individuals US$93/50 pounds EC/50 pounds RoW
- USA/Canada: Journals Promotion Dept., Chapman & Hall, 29 West 35th
- Street, New York, NY 20001-2299, USA, 212-244-3336, fax 212-244-3426,
- E-mail 71201.1651@compuserve.com.
- EC/RoW: Journals Promotions Dept., Chapman & Hall, 2-6 Boundary Row,
- London SE1 8HN, UK, +44 (0)71-865-0066, fax +44 (0)71-522-9623, E-mail
- journal@chall.mhs.compuserve.com.
-
- Journals -- Applied AI:
-
- APPLIED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
- Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0883-9514
- Subscriptions: Institutions $176; Individuals $84.
- Hemisphere Publishing Corp., 1900 Frost Rd., Suite 101, Bristol, PA 19007
- 215-785-5800, fax 215-785-5515.
- (in the UK, write to Taylor & Francis Ltd., Rankine Rd., Baskingstoke,
- Hampshire RG24 0PR, UK, call +44-256-840366, or fax +44-256-479438)
-
- APPLIED INTELLIGENCE
- The International Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks,
- and Complex Problem-Solving Technologies
- Subscriptions: Institutions $217; Individuals $75.
- Editor in Chief: Dr. Moonis Ali, Professor of Computer Science, The
- University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, TN 37388
- Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, P.O. Box 358, Accord Station,
- Hingham, MA 02018-0358, <kluwer@world.std.com>.
-
- Journals -- AI and Law:
-
- ARTICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LAW
- Subscriptions: $158, including postage
- Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The
- Netherlands, or Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 358, Accord
- Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358.
-
- Journals -- AI and Medicine:
-
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE
- Published 6 times annually. ISSN Number 0933-3657.
- Subscriptions: $175.
- To order in the US, write to Elsevier Science Publishing, 655 Avenue of
- the Americas, New York, NY 10017, 212-633-3827. Outside the US,
- contact Elsevier Science Publishers, Journal Department, PO Box 211,
- 1000 AE Amsterdam, The Netherlands, call +31-20-5803-642, or fax
- +31-20-5803-598.
-
- Journals -- Automated Reasoning:
-
- JOURNAL OF AUTOMATED REASONING
- Published 6 times annually. ISSN 0168-7433
- Subscriptions: Individuals $131; Institutions $263; AAR members $65.
- Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The
- Netherlands, or Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 358, Accord
- Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358.
-
- AUTOMATED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
- The International Journal of Automated Reasoning and Artificial
- Intelligence in Software Engineering.
- Published quarterly.
- Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The
- Netherlands, or Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 358, Accord
- Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358.
-
- Journals -- Concurrent Engineering:
-
- CONCURRENT ENGINEERING: RESEARCH & APPLICATIONS (CERA)
- Published quarterly.
- Official journal of the Concurrent Engineering Institute of the
- International Society for Productivity Enhancement (ISPE).
- Academic Press Ltd., 24-28 Oval Road, London, NW1 7DX, UK. Call
- 71-267-4466, fax 71-482-2293 or 71-485-4752, or email ac2@ib.rl.ac.uk.
- Relevant to parallel processing, blackboard systems, distributed AI,
- and AI in manufacturing.
- For information about submissions, write to Biren Prasad, Managing
- Editor, CERA Institute, PO Box 250254, West Bloomfield, MI 48325, call
- 313-492-0551, fax 313-661-8333, or send email to bprasad@cmsa.gmr.com.
-
- Journals -- Engineering:
-
- ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
- Published 6 times annually.
- Subscriptions: Institutions (1992) 235.00 or approx US$425.00; two year
- institutional rate (1992/93) 446.50 or approx US$807.50.
- North America: Pergamon Press Inc., 660 White Plains Road,
- Tarrytown, NY 10591-55153, USA.
- Rest of the World: Pergamon Press Ltd, Headington Hill Hall,
- Oxford OX3 0BW, England. Tel: Oxford (0865)794141
-
- Journals -- Expert Systems:
-
- EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS
- Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0957-4174.
- Subscriptions: Institutions L85 ($155), Individuals L45 ($72).
- Pergamon Press Inc., 660 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY 10591-5153,
- email PPI@pergamon.com, or Pergamon Press Ltd., Headington Hill Hall,
- Oxford OX3 0BW, England.
-
- EXPERT SYSTEMS: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING
- Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0266-4720.
- Subscriptions: L85 ($110)
- Learned Information Ltd., Woodside, Hinksey Hill, Oxford OX1 5AU, UK.
- Tel: +44 (0)865-730275 Fax: +44 (0)085-736354
-
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERT SYSTEMS
- Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0894-9077.
- Subscriptions: Institutions $135; Individuals $75. Outside the US add
- $10 for surface mail and $20 for airmail.
- JAI Press Inc., 55 Old Post Road -- No. 2, PO Box 1678, Greenwich, CT
- 06836-1678.
-
- Journals -- Genetic Algorithms:
-
- EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION
- Published 4 times annually, beginning April/May 1993.
- 100 pages per issue, 7x10. ISSN 1063-6550
- Editor-in-chief: Kenneth De Jong
- Subscription Rates: Individuals $45 ($63.13 Canada, $59 elsewhere),
- Institutions $120.00 ($143.38 Canada, $134.00 elsewhere), and
- Students/Retired $30.00 ($47.08 Canada, $44.00 elsewhere).
- MIT Press Journals, 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1399,
- 617-253-2889, fax 617-258-6779, E-mail hiscox@mitvma.mit.edu.
-
- Journals -- Machine Learning:
-
- MACHINE LEARNING
- Published 8 times annually. ISSN 0885-6125
- Subscriptions: Institutions $301; Individuals $140. (AAAI Individual
- Members $88)
- Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The
- Netherlands, or Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 358, Accord
- Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358.
-
- Journals -- NLP/Speech/MT:
-
- COMPUTER SPEECH AND LANGUAGE
- Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0885-2308.
- Subscriptions: Institutions $136, Individuals $58.
- Academic Press Ltd., 24-28 Oval Road, London NW1, England.
-
- MACHINE TRANSLATION
- Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0922-6567.
- Subscriptions: Institutions $141 plus $16 postage; Individuals $55
- (members of ACL $46).
- Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The
- Netherlands, or Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 358, Accord
- Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358.
-
- Journals -- Neural Nets/Connectionism:
-
- CONNECTION SCIENCE
- Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0954-0091.
- Subscriptions: Individual $82, Institution $184, Institution (UK) 74 pounds
- Carfax Publishing Company, PO Box 25, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3UE, UK.
-
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- Published quarterly. ISSN 0954-9889.
- Learned Information Ltd., Woodside, Hinksey Hill, Oxford OX1 5AU, UK.
- Tel: +44 (0)865-730275 Fax: +44 (0)085-736354
-
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NEURAL SYSTEMS
- Published quarterly. ISSN 0129-0657
- Subscriptions: Individual $42, Institution $88 (plus $9-$17 for postage)
- USA: World Scientific Publishing Co., 687 Hartwell Street, Teaneck, NJ
- 07666, 201-837-8858; Eurpoe: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte.
- Ltd., 73 Lynton Mead, Totteridge, London N20-8DH, England, (01)
- 4462461; Other: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Farrer
- Road, P.O. Box 128, Singapore 9128, 2786188.
-
- NEURAL COMPUTING AND APPLICATIONS
- Published quarterly.
- Official journal of the Neural Computing Applications Forum.
- Subscriptions: #120 per annum. (Free to NCAF members.)
- Springer Verlag, Service Center Secaucus, 44 Hartz Way, Secaucus, NJ 07094
- Tel: 201-348-4033
- Springer-Verlag, Springer House, 8 Alexandra Road, LONDON SW19 7JZ
- Tel: ..44/0 81 947 1280 Fax: 0 81 947 1274
- Spqringer-Verlag, Heidelberger Platz 3, D-1000 BERLIN, Germany
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-
- NEURAL COMPUTATION
- Published quarterly since 1989. ISSN 0899-7667.
- MIT Press Journals, 55 Hayward Street Cambridge, MA 02142-9949, 617-253-2889
- Subscriptions: Individual $45, Institution $90, Students $35. Add
- $9 for foreign subscriptions.
-
- NEURAL NETWORKS
- Published 6 times annually. ISSN 0893-6080.
- Official journal of the International Neural Network Society.
- Subscriptions: $380
- Pergamon Press, Ltd., Headington Hill Hall, Oxford OX3 0BW, UK.
- Pergamon Press, Inc., 660 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY 10591-5153.
-
- Journals -- Pattern Recognition:
-
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PATTERN RECOGNITION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
- Annual subscription, 1992/3, $340; individual subscription, $138. Add
- $34 for airmail. Published 5 times a year by World Scientific
- Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Farrer Road, PO Box 128, Singapore 9128.
- (In the US, write to World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc., River Edge,
- NJ 07661; in Europe to World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc., Totteridge,
- London N20 8DH, England.)
-
- PATTERN RECOGNITION
- Journal of the Pattern Recognition Society. Members receive the
- journal free of charge as part of their membership in the Society.
- Institutions may subscribe for $845.
- Pergamon Press, Ltd., Headington Hill Hall, Oxford OX3 0BW, UK.
- Pergamon Press, Inc., 660 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY 10591-5153.
-
- PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS
- Published 12 times annually. ISSN 0167-8655.
- Official publication of the International Association for Pattern
- Recognition. Subscriptions: $462 Institutions.
- Elsevier Science Publishing, 655 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY
- 10017, 212-633-3827. Outside the US, contact Elsevier Science
- Publishers, Attn: Ursula van Dijk, PO Box 103, 1000 AC Amsterdam, The
- Netherlands, or call +31-20-5862-608.
-
- Journals -- Reasoning Under Uncertainty:
-
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPROXIMATE REASONING
- The treatment of Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
- Published 8 times a year. ISSN 0888-613X.
- Subscriptions: Institutions $282; included with NAFIPS membership
- (see NAFIPS entry above).
- North-Holland, Elsevier Science Publishing Co., Inc., 655 Avenue of the
- Americas, New York, NY 10010
-
- Journals -- Robotics:
-
- INDUSTRIAL ROBOT
- ISSN 0143-991X
- Published quarterly. $145/year
- MCB University Press Limited, 62 Toller Lane, Bradford, West
- Yorkshire, England BD8 9BY, (44) 274-499821, fax (44) 274-547143. In
- the US, write to MCB University Press Limited, PO Box 10812,
- Birmingham, AL 35201-0812, 1-800-633-4931 (1-205-995-1567), fax
- 1-205-995-1588.
-
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION
- Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0826-8185
- Subscriptions: $165 US or 313.50 SFr. ($12 US or 22.80 SFr postage and
- handling). A special rate is available to members of IASTED.
- Write to ACTA Press, PO Box 354, CH-8053, Zurich, Switzerland or ACTA
- Press, PO Box 2481, Anaheim, CA 92814.
- IASTED is the International Association of Science and Technology for
- Development. Individual memberships are $60 US or $120 SFr and
- corporate memberships $100 US or $200.00 SFr. Members receive a
- complimentary subscription to the journal of their choice; the annual
- cost of additional journals for members is $20US/$40SFr per journal.
- Write to IASTED, PO Box 25, Station G, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T3A
- 2G1, or IASTED, PO Box 354, CH-8053, Zurich, Switzerland.
-
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH
- MIT Press, 28 Carleton Street, Cambridge, MA 02142
- Subscriptions: $50/year to individuals
-
- JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT & ROBOTIC SYSTEMS
- Three issues per volume, $58.50 per volume (individual)
- Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht,
- The Netherlands. In the US write to Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 358,
- Accord Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358.
-
- ROBOTICS TODAY
- Society of Manufacturing Engineers, One SME Drive, PO Box 930,
- Dearborn, MI 48121. 313-271-1500
-
- ROBOTICS WORLD
- Published quarterly.
- Communication Channels, 6255 Barfield Road, Atlanta, GA 30328
- 404-256-9800
- A magazine of flexible automation for the end-user.
- They also publish the Robotics World Directory for $49.95
-
- ROBOT (Japanese)
- Industrial Robots and Application Systems
- Published bimonthly.
- Japan Industrial Robot Association (JIRA)
- Kikai-Shinko Building, 3-5-8, Shiba-Kohen, Mina To-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Tokyo (03) 3434-2919, fax (03) 3578-1404
-
- ROBOTICA
- International Journal of Information, Education and Research
- in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.
- Published quarterly, US $179/year.
- Cambridge University Press, The Edinburgh Building, Shaftesbury Road,
- Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK. In the US write to Cambridge University Press,
- Journals Department, 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211.
-
- Journals -- User Modeling:
-
- USER MODELING AND USER-ADAPTED INTERACTION
- 4 issues per annum, ISSN 0924-1868,
- $153.50 p.a. ($50 for individuals)
- Kluwer Academic Publishers Group,
- P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht,
- The Netherlands.
-
- Journals -- Virtual Reality:
-
- PRESENCE
- Subscriptions: $50 individual, $120 institutions, $40 students/retired
- (higher rates for Canada and overseas)
- MIT Press Journals
- 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1399
- 617-253-2889, fax 617-258-6779
- hiscox@mitvma.mit.edu
-
- Journals -- Vision:
-
- MACHINE VISION AND APPLICATIONS
- Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0932-8092.
- Subscriptions: Institutions $106 (plus $11 p&h); Individuals $54 (incl p&h).
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc., Journal Fulfillment Services, 44 Hartz
- Way, Secaucus, NJ 07094, 1-800-SPRINGER.
-
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER VISION
- Published 6 times annually. ISSN 0920-5691.
- Subscriptions: Institutions $229; Individuals $115. Add $8 for airmail.
- Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The
- Netherlands, or Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 358, Accord
- Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358.
-
- Other Journals and Magzines:
- If you have the subscription information for the following, please
- send a message with that information to mkant+ai-faq@cs.cmu.edu.
-
- Journals:
-
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences
- Brain and Cognition
- Brain and Language
- Cognition
- Cognition and Brain Theory
- Cognitive Psychology
- Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing
- Human Intelligence
- IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Sets and Systems ?
- International Journal of Man-Machine Studies
- Journal of the Association for the Study of Perception
- Journal of Intelligent Systems
- Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems
- Journal of Logic Programming
- Journal of Symbolic Computing
- New Generation Computing (logic programming)
- Speech Technology
-
- Magazines:
-
- Annual Review in Automatic Programming
- Artificial Intelligence Report
- IEEE Control Systems Magazine (often has articles about NNs and
- fuzzy systems)
- Robotics Age
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------
- Subject: [1-2] How do I get a copy of the proceedings to conference <x>?
-
- First, ask your librarian for help. If your local library doesn't have it,
- they may be able to get it on interlibrary loan.
-
- If you want to buy your own copy, first check with the organization that
- ran the conference. See the answer to question [1-1] for a list of many of
- the AI organizations that sponsor conferences.
-
- If they can't help you, contact the Institute for Scientific Information
- (ISI), and look up the proceedings in their Index to Scientific and
- Technical Proceedings (ISTP volumes). You can contact the ISI at
-
- Institute for Scientific Information, Inc.
- 3501 Market Street
- Philadelphia, PA 19104
- Phone: 215-386-0100
- Fax: 215-386-6362
-
- Another source for proceedings author and subject indexes is:
-
- Directory of Published Proceedings.
- Series SEMT: Science/Engineering/Medicine/Technology.
- Published monthly with annual cumulations by InterDok, Harrison, NY.
- ISSN 0012-3293.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------
- 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.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------
- 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: [1-8] 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 <stiquito@cs.indiana.edu>. 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.
-
- 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 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.
-
- Schools with excellent programs in most fields:
- Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
- MIT
- Stanford
-
- Georgia Tech
- Imperial College
- Indiana
- Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University (ILS)
- Maryland
- Rutgers
- SUNY/Buffalo
- Sussex University
- Toronto
- UCLA
- UC/Berkeley
- Univ. of Edinburgh
- Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
- Univ. of Maryland/College Park
- Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst
- Univ. of Michigan
- Univ. of Pittsburgh
- Univ. of Rochester
- Univ. of Southern California & USC/Information Sciences Institute
- Yale
-
- AI and Manufacturing:
- Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) -- CIMDS
- Univ. of Maryland/College Park
- Univ. of Toronto
-
- AI and Medicine:
- MIT
- Stanford
- Univ. of Pittsburgh
-
- AI and Legal Reasoning:
- Imperial College
- Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst
-
- Artificial Life:
- UCLA
-
- Automated Deduction/Theorem Proving:
- Imperial College
- Stanford
- Univ. of Edinburgh
- Univ. of Oregon
- Univ. of Texas/Austin
-
- Case-Based Reasoning/Analogical Reasoning:
- Chicago
- Georgia Tech
- Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University (ILS)
- Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst
- Univ. of Pittsburgh
-
- Cognitive Modelling:
- Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
- Georgia Tech
- Indiana
- Univ. of Maryland/College Park
- Univ. of Michigan
-
- Cognitive Science:
- Brown University
- Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
- Georgia Tech
- Indiana University/Bloomington
- Johns Hopkins
- MIT
- Princeton
- Rutgers
- SUNY/Buffalo
- Stanford
- UC/Berkeley
- UC/San Diego
- Univ. of Colorado/Boulder
- Univ. of Edinburgh
- Univ. of Minnesota
- Univ. of Pennsylvania
- Univ. of Rochester
-
- Connectionism/Neural Networks:
- Boston University, Cognitive and Neural Systems Department (ART networks)
- Brown University
- CalTech
- Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
- Indiana
- MIT
- Ohio State Univ.
- Stanford
- Syracuse University
- Texas A&M
- Toronto
- UC/Berkeley
- UC/Irvine
- UC/San Diego
- UCLA
- UNC/Chapel Hill
- Univ. of Colorado/Boulder
- Univ. of Edinburgh
- Univ. of Helsinki
- Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
- Univ. of Maryland/College Park
- Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst
- Univ. of Pennsylvania
- Univ. of Southern California & USC/Information Sciences Institute
-
- Decision Theory and AI:
- Berkeley
- MIT
- Stanford
- Univ. of Michigan
- Univ. of Washington
-
- Distributed AI:
- Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst
- Univ. of Michigan
-
- Emotion:
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University (ILS)
-
- Fuzzy Logic:
- Berkeley
-
- Genetic Algorithms:
- George Mason Univ.
- Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
- Univ. of Michigan
- UCLA
- UC San Diego
-
- Integrated AI Architectures:
- Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
- Stanford
- Univ. of Michigan
-
- Intelligent Tutoring, AI & Education:
- Carnegie Mellon University (Cognitive Science Department)
- Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
- Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University (ILS)
- Univ. of Pittsburgh
-
- Knowledge Representation:
- Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University (ILS)
- Stanford
- SUNY/Buffalo
- Univ. of Maryland/College Park
- Univ. of Oregon
-
- Logic Programming and Logic-based AI:
- Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
- Imperial College
- Stanford
- UCLA
- Univ. of Edinburgh
- Univ. of Maryland/College Park
- Univ. of Melbourne
- Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
- Univ. of Oregon
- Univ. of Pennsylvania
-
- Machine Discovery:
- Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
-
- Machine Learning:
- Brown University
- Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
- George Mason
- Georgia Tech
- Johns Hopkins
- MIT
- UCI
- Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst
- Univ. of Michigan
- Univ. of Southern California & USC/Information Sciences Institute
-
- Natural Language Processing (NLU, NLG, Parsing, NLI, Speech):
- Brown
- Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
- Columbia
- Georgia Tech
- Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
- Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University (ILS)
- ISI
- Indiana
- MIT
- Penn
- Stanford
- SUNY/Buffalo
- Toronto
- UCLA
- Univ. of Edinburgh
- Univ. of Maryland/College Park
- Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst
- Univ. of Pittsburgh
- Univ. of Rochester
- Univ. of Southern California & USC/Information Sciences Institute
- Waterloo (stylistics, MT, discourse)
-
- Nonmonotonic Reasoning:
- Imperial College
- Stanford
- UCLA
- Univ. of Maryland/College Park
- Univ. of Oregon
- Toronto
-
- Philosophy of AI:
- Berkeley
- MIT
- Univ. of Maryland/College Park
-
- Planning:
- Brown University
- Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
- Imperial College
- MIT
- Stanford
- Univ. of Maryland/College Park
- Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst
- Univ. of Oregon
- Univ. of Pittsburgh
- Univ. of Rochester
- Univ. of Washington/Seattle
- Waterloo
-
- Production Systems/Expert Systems:
- Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
- Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
- Stanford
-
- Qualitative Physics and Model Based Reasoning:
- Northwestern ILS (Forbus)
- Univ. of Oregon
- Univ. of Texas
- Univ. of Washington
-
- Reasoning Under Uncertainty (Probabilistic Reasoning, Approximate
- Reasoning, etc.):
- Brown University
- George Mason
- Oregon State University
- Stanford
- UCLA
- Univ. of Maryland/College Park
- Univ. of Rochester
- University of South Carolina
-
- Robotics:
- Bristol Polytechnic, UK
- Brown
- California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
- Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
- Georgia Tech
- Harvard
- Hull University, UK
- MIT
- Naval Postgraduate School
- New York University (NYU) Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
- North Carolina State Univerisity/Raleigh (NCSU)
- Oxford
- Purdue
- Reading University, UK
- Rennsalear Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
- Salford University, UK
- Stanford
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
- UC/Berkeley
- Univ. of Alberta
- Univ. of Edinburgh
- Univ. of Kansas
- Univ. of Kentucky
- Univ. of Maryland/College Park
- Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst
- Univ. of Michigan
- Univ. of Paris INRIA
- Univ. of Pennsylvania
- Univ. of Southern California & USC/Information Sciences Institute
- Univ. of Utah
- Univ. of Wisconsin
- Yale
-
- Search:
- UCLA
- Univ. of Maryland/College Park
- Univ. of Oregon
-
- Temporal Reasoning:
- Imperial College
-
- Virtual Reality:
- Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
- Columbia
- Florida Institute of Technology
- MIT Media Lab
- Naval Postgraduate School
- UVA
- Univ. North Carolina/Chapel Hill (UNC)
-
- Vision:
- Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
- Columbia
- Johns Hopkins
- MIT
- SUNY/Buffalo
- UCLA
- Univ. of Edinburgh
- Univ. of Maryland/College Park
- Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst
- Univ. of Rochester
- Univ. of Southern California & USC/Information Sciences Institute
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- Subject: [1-11] How can I get the email address for Joe or Jill Researcher?
-
- The AAAI membership directory is updated annually and contains
- addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses for many members of AAAI
- and other AI societies. Contact info@aaai.org for information on
- getting a copy of the directory (you should get a free copy if you are
- a member of one of the listed societies).
-
- See also the Email Address FAQ posting to the newsgroups soc.college
- and soc.net-people.
-
- The Artificial Intelligence and Molecular Biology Researchers database
- contains names, institutions, addresses, phone, fax, email,
- research interests and other related information about more than 200
- researchers worldwide. The database is available via anonymous ftp from the
- host lhc.nlm.nih.gov in the directory /pub/aimb-db. There are computer- and
- human- readable versions available. Get the README file for more
- information or send email to Larry Hunter, <hunter@nlm.nih.gov>.
-
- E-mail addresses for members of the Linguistics Society of America
- (LSA) are available by anonymous ftp as
- linguistics.archive.umich.edu:linguistics/LSA.email.list
- or by sending a message to listserv@tamvm1.tamu.edu with
- "get lsa lst linguist" in the message body.
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