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This post contains Part 6 of the Lisp FAQ.

If you think of questions that are appropriate for this FAQ, or would
like to improve an answer, please send email to us at [e-mail].

Topics Covered (Part 6):
  [6-0] General information about FTP Resources for Lisp
  [6-1] Repositories of Lisp Software
  [6-3] Publicly Redistributable Lisp Software
  [6-6] Formatting code in LaTeX (WEB and other literate programming tools)
  [6-7] Where can I get an implementation of Prolog in Lisp?
  [6-8] World-Wide Web (WWW) Resources

Search for \[#\] to get to question number # quickly.

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Subject: [6-0] General information about FTP Resources for Lisp

Remember, when ftping compressed or compacted files (.Z, .z, .arc, .fit,
etc.) to use binary mode for retrieving the files.

Files that end with a .z suffix were compressed with the patent-free
gzip (no relation to zip). Source for gzip is available from:
   prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/
as the files gzip-1.2.3.shar, gzip-1.2.3.tar,or gzip-1.2.3.msdos.exe.

FTP sites for Lisp and Scheme interpreters and compilers are discussed
in the answer to questions [4-0] and [4-2] and in the Scheme FAQ. See
the entry on Macintosh Common Lisp in question [4-1] for information
on the CD-ROM of Lisp code that Apple distributes with MCL 2.0.

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Subject: [6-1] Repositories of Lisp Software

There are several repositories of publicly redistributable and
public domain Lisp code.

Common Lisp Repository:

   The Common Lisp Repository is accessible by anonymous ftp to
      ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/lang/lisp/ [128.2.206.173]
   through the AFS directory
      /afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/ai-repository/ai/lang/lisp/
   or by WWW from the URL
      http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/Web/Groups/AI/html/repository.html
   and includes more than 250 megabytes of sources, including all
   freely distributable implementations and many programs. This
   repository supersedes the Lisp Utilities collection, and is now
   part of the CMU Artificial Intelligence Repository.

   Programs in the repository include XREF (portable cross referencing
   tool for Lisp, similar to the Symbolics Who-Calls and the Xerox
   MasterScope programs), Brad Miller's initializations package for
   Allegro CL 4.0, DEFSYSTEM (portable system definition facility, a
   "Make" for Lisp), a portable implementation of the X3J13 June 1989
   specification for logical pathnames, METERING (a portable code
   time/space profiling tool), SOURCE-COMPARE (a portable "diff" utility
   for Lisp), USER-MANUAL (a program which helps with documenting Lisp
   code), PSGRAPH (Joe Bates' PostScript DAG grapher), several matchers
   for Lisp, NREGEX (a regular expressions matcher), a date formatter, an
   infix reader macro for Lisp, SAVE-OBJECT (Kerry Koitzsch's package to
   save ASCII representations of Lisp objects to a file), Stephen
   Nicoud's semi-portable CLtL2 version of defpackage, LALR (Mark
   Johnson's lisp YACC parser generator), various implementations of the
   Loop Macro, William Schelter's sloop macro, Frank Ritter and Jim
   Panagos' implementation of the Yale yloop macro (described in
   McDermont, Charniak and Riesbeck's AI programming book), all free Lisp
   GUIs, including Express Windows, the iterate macro, Waters' Series
   Macro package, Waters' XP Lisp Pretty Printer, Bruno Haible's
   implementation of the Simplex algorithm, MAPFORMS (Moon's code
   walker), Brad Miller's resources package, and much much more.

   The repository has standardized on using 'tar' for producing
   archives of files and 'gzip' for compression.

   To search the keyword index by mail, send a message to:
      [e-mail]
   with one or more lines containing calls to the keys command, such as:
      keys lisp iteration
   in the message body.  Keywords may be regular expressions and are
   compared with the index in a case-insensitive conjunctive fashion.
   You'll get a response by return mail. Do not include anything else
   in the Subject line of the message or in the message body.  For help on
   the query mail server, include:
      help
   instead.

   A Mosaic interface to the keyword searching program is in the
   works.  We also plan to make the source code (including indexes) to
   this program available, as soon as it is stable.

   Most of the Common Lisp Repository appears on Prime Time Freeware
   for AI, Issue 1-1, a mixed-media book/CD-ROM publication. It
   includes two ISO-9660 CD-ROMs bound into a 224 page book and sells
   (list) for US$60 plus applicable sales tax and shipping and handling
   charges. Payable through Visa, Mastercard, postal money orders in US
   funds, and checks in US funds drawn on a US bank. For more
   information write to Prime Time Freeware, 370 Altair Way, Suite 150,
   Sunnyvale, CA  94086  USA, call 408-433-9662, 408-433-0727 (fax),
   or send email to [e-mail].

   Contributions of software and other materials are always welcome but
   must be accompanied by an unambiguous copyright statement that grants
   permission for free use, copying, and distribution -- either a
   declaration by the author that the materials are in the public domain,
   that the materials are subject to the GNU General Public License (cite
   version), or that the materials are subject to copyright, but the
   copyright holder grants permission for free use, copying, and
   distribution. (We will tell you if the copying permissions are too
   restrictive for us to include the materials in the repository.)
   Inclusion of materials in the repository does not modify their
   copyright status in any way. Materials may be placed in:
      ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/new/
   When you put anything in this directory, please send mail to
      [e-mail]
   giving us permission to distribute the files, and state whether
   this permission is just for the AI Repository, or also includes
   publication on the CD-ROM version (Prime Time Freeware for AI).
   We would also appreciate if you would include a 0.doc file for your
   package; see /user/ai/new/package.doc for a template. (If you don't
   have the time to write your own, we can write it for you based on
   the information in your package.)

   The Common Lisp Repository is maintained by Mark Kantrowitz,
   [e-mail].

   Known mirrors:
      ftp.sunet.se:/pub/lang/lisp/

CLOS:
   The CLOS code repository is available by anonymous ftp to
      nervous.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/lispusers/clos/ [128.146.61.200]
   If you've got code you'd like to add to the repository, send mail to
   Arun Welch, [e-mail].  The CLOS code
   repository includes dag.lisp.Z and 3DGeometry.lisp.  [The AI
   Repository's Lisp Section includes a directory of CLOS code as well,
   in ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/lang/lisp/oop/clos-code/.]

MCL:
   The Macintosh Common Lisp repository contains Lisp code for
   MCL contributed by MCL users. It is available by anonymous ftp from
      cambridge.apple.com:/pub/MCL2/contrib/       [134.149.2.3]
   and also contains the Info-MCL mailing list archives. The
   repository contains, among other things, AV_Parser.hqx and Zebu
   (general parser toolkits), babylon-2.2.sit.hqx (expert system shell
   from GMD in Germany), btree.sit.hqx (binary trees), LGL.lisp (Lisp
   Graphics Library for MCL), quicktime code, mmlisp.sit.hqx
   (midi-manager interface), tips on optimizing MCL code, PARKA.sit.hqx
   (a knowledge representation system), starsim.sit.hqx (*Lisp for MCL),
   IP/TCP examples, and support for hypercard XCMDs and XFCNs.  See the
   file README for a quick overview of the contents of the MCL
   repository.

CLIM:
   The CLIM Library (a library of user contributed code for the CLIM
   environment) is available by anonymous ftp on
      cambridge.apple.com:/pub/clim [134.149.2.3]
   For information on CLIM, see the entry in [6-5] below.  For more
   information on the CLIM Library, contact Vincent Keunen, [e-mail].

MIT AI Lab:
   ftp.ai.mit.edu:/pub/
      loop-macro.tar               [LOOP from CLtL1]
      series/                      [SERIES from CLtL2; older version]
      Iterate/                     [Alternative to series and loop.]
      clmath.tar                   [Numeric math 1984]
      ontic/                       [ONTIC Knowledge Rep. for Mathematics]
   clmath is a Lisp library of mathematical functions that calculate
   hyperbolic and inverse hyperbolic functions, Bessel functions,
   elliptic integrals, the gamma and beta functions, and the incomplete
   gamma and beta functions.  There are probability density functions,
   cumulative distributions, and random number generators for the normal,
   Poisson, chi-square, Student's T, and Snedecor's F functions. Discrete
   Fourier Transforms. Multiple linear regression, Fletcher-Powell
   unconstrained minimization, numerical integration, root finding,
   and convergence. Code to factor numbers and to do the
   Solovay-Strassen probabilistic prime test is included.
   A technical report describing CLMath is available as MIT AI Lab
   Memo 774, Gerald Roylance, "Some Scientific Subroutines in LISP",
   September 1984. Iterate is Jonathan Amsterdam's alternative to
   series and the Loop macro. For more information, contact [e-mail].

LispUsers Archives:
   The LispUsers Archives, a collection of programs for Medley, can be
   found on
      nervous.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/lispusers/medley/
   The files include a plotting module, addressbook, chat program, clock,
   call-grapher, grep implementation, Tower of Hanoi, Life, lisp dialect
   translator, and fonts. Also on nervous.cis.ohio-state.edu is GTT, an
   implementation of Chandrasekaran's Generic Tasks Toolset, in directory
   pub/lispusers/toolset.

Amiga LISP implementations:
   There's a repository of Amiga LISP implementations (and other Lisp-like
   language implementations) on gatekeeper.pa.dec.com:/pub/micro/amiga/lisp/.

Inside Computer Understanding:
   Common Lisp versions of the mini programs from "Inside Computer
   Understanding" by Schank and Riesbeck, 1981, are available by
   anonymous ftp from
      cs.umd.edu:/pub/schank/icu/
   This includes the SAM and ELI miniatures. It will eventually include copies
   of the miniature versions of PAM, POLITICS, and Tale-Spin. The FOR
   macro is also available in this directory, as are a set of functions
   for manipulating and matching lisp representations of Conceptual
   Dependency formulas.  Contact Bill Andersen <[e-mail]> for
   more information.

Norvig:

   The software from Peter Norvig's book "Paradigms of AI Programming" is
   available by anonymous ftp from unix.sri.com:/pub/norvig/ and on disk in
   Macintosh or DOS format from the publisher, Morgan Kaufmann.

   Software includes Common Lisp implementations of:
      Eliza and pattern matchers, Emycin, Othello, Parsers,
      Scheme interpreters and compilers, Unification and a prolog
      interpreter and compiler, Waltz line-labelling,
      implementation of GPS, macsyma, and random number generators.

   For more information, contact:
      Morgan Kaufmann, Dept. P1, 2929 Campus Drive, Suite 260
      San Mateo CA 94403, [phone]; FAX: [phone]
    Mac          ISBN 1-55860-227-5
    DOS 3.5"     ISBN 1-55860-228-3
    DOS 5.25"    ISBN 1-55860-229-1

NL Software Registry:
   A catalog of free and commercial natural language software is
   available from the Natural Language Software Registry, by anonymous
   ftp from
      ftp.dfki.uni-sb.de:/registry/
   or by email to [e-mail].

TI Explorer Lisp Code:

   sumex-aim.stanford.edu:/pub/exp/

   The Knowledge Systems Lab's set of Explorer patches and tools. It
   includes in the jwz subdirectory a set of tools written and collected
   by Jamie Zawinski. Send questions to [e-mail].

Waters' Programs:

   Dick Waters' XP Lisp Pretty Printer is available by anonymous ftp
   from
      merl.com:/pub/xp/
   as the files xp-code.lisp, xp-doc.txt, and xp-test.lisp.

   The Series Macro is available from
      merl.com:/pub/series/
   as the files s-code.lisp, s-test.lisp, and s-doc.txt. The
   Series macro package is described fully in Waters, R.C., "Automatic
   Transformation of Series Expressions into Loops", ACM Transactions on
   Programming Languages and Systems, 13(1):52--98, January 1991,
   MIT/AIM-1082 and MIT/AIM-1083.

   Both programs are also available from the Common Lisp Repository
   described above.

   For further information, contact Dick Waters, <[e-mail]> or
   <[e-mail]>. An improved version of Series is in the works.

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Subject: [6-3] Publicly Redistributable Lisp Software

AI Algorithms and Tools:

   PAIL (Portable AI Lab) is a computing environment containing a
   collection of state-of-the-art AI tools, examples, and documentation.
   It is aimed at those involved in teaching AI courses at university
   level or equivalent. The system has enough built-in functionality to
   enable its users to get practical experience with a broad range of AI
   problems without having to build all the supporting tools from
   scratch. It is implemented in Common Lisp and uses CLOS and Allegro
   Common Windows (i.e., in Allegro CL 4.1). It is available by anonymous
   ftp from
      pobox.cscs.ch:/pub/ai/ [148.187.10.13]
   Written by Mike Rosner and Dean Allemang {dean,mike}@idsia.ch.

   AI_ATTIC is an anonymous ftp collection of classic AI programs and
   other information maintained by the University of Texas at Austin.  It
   includes Parry, Adventure, Shrdlu, Doctor, Eliza, Animals, Trek, Zork,
   Babbler, Jive, and some AI-related programming languages.  This
   archive is available by anonymous ftp from
      ftp.cc.utexas.edu:/pub/AI_ATTIC/  [128.83.186.13]
   (AKA bongo.cc.utexas.edu). For more information, contact
   [e-mail].

Analogical Reasoning:

   SME is the Structure-Mapping Engine, as described in Falkenhainer,
   Forbus, and Gentner's 1987 AIJ article.  Available from
   multivac.ils.nwu.edu:/pub/SME For further information, contact Brian
   Falkenhainer <[e-mail]> or Ken Forbus
   <[e-mail]>.

Benchmarks:

   Gabriel Lisp Benchmarks are available by anonymous ftp as
   ai.toronto.edu:/pub/gabriel-lisp-benchmarks.tar.Z.
   The benchmarks are described in the book "Performance Evaluation of
   Lisp Systems", by Richard Gabriel.

   Lucid CL contains a set of benchmarks in its goodies/ directory,
   including Bob Boyer's logic programming benchmark, a benchmark to
   create and browse through an AI-like database of units, a CLOS speed
   test, a compilation speed test, TAKR (the 100 function version of TAK
   that tries to defeat cache memory effects), CTAK (A version of the
   TAKeuchi function that uses the CATCH/THROW facility), STAK (A version
   of the TAKeuchi function with special variables instead of parameter
   passing), DERIV and DDERIV (Symbolic derivative benchmarks written by
   Vaughn Pratt), DESTRU (a destructive operation benchmark), DIV2 (a
   benchmark which divides by 2 using lists of n ()'s), the FFT benchmark
   written by Harry Barrow, FPRINT (a benchmark to print to a file),
   FRPOLY (a Franz Lisp benchmark by Fateman based on polynomial
   arithmentic), Forest Baskett's PUZZLE benchmark (originally written in
   Pascal), the TPRINT benchmark to read and print to the terminal, a
   benchmark that creates and traverses a tree structure, and TRIANG
   (board game benchmark). Some of the benchmarks may work only in Lucid.

Blackboard Architectures:

   The UMass GBB system (V1.2) is available by anonymous ftp from
   dime.cs.umass.edu:/gbb. The commercial GBB product is not.
   Work on the UMass GBB project (and funding) ended over 2 years ago.
   Many researchers using it have opted for the commercial
   release.  The UMass research system remains available, but the
   two should not be confused as the commercial system is
   substantially improved and extended. The commercial system is available
   from Blackboard Technology Group, 401 Main Street,
   Amherst, Massachusetts 01002, 413-256-8990, fax [phone].

   For a tutorial on how to build a blackboard system, see the paper
      P. R. Kersten and Avi C. Kak, "A Tutorial on LISP Object-Oriented
      Programming for Blackboard Computation (Solving the Radar Tracking
      Problem)", International Journal of Intelligent Systems 8:617-669, 1993
   Although samples of the code are given in the paper, the full source
   code is available in a separate technical report from the School of
   Electrical Engineering at Purdue University.  If you are interested in
   getting a copy of the technical report, send mail to Avi Kak
   <[e-mail]>. (The circumstances under which the software was
   developed prevent them from making the source code available by
   anonymous FTP. However, the full source code is printed in the
   technical report.)

Case-based Reasoning:

   CL-Protos is a Common Lisp implementation of the case-based
   reasoning system developed by E. Ray Bareiss and Bruce W.
   Porter of the University of Texas/Austin AI Lab. It runs
   on Sun3, TI Explorer, HP 9000, and Symbolics, and gobbles a
   huge amount of memory. Common Lisp implementation by
   Rita Duran, Dan Dvorak, Jim Kroger, Hilel Swerdlin, and Ben Tso.
   For more information, bug reports, or comments, contact
   either Dan Dvorak <[e-mail]> or Ray Bareiss
   <[e-mail]> or Erik Eilerts <[e-mail]>
   Available by anonymous ftp from cs.utexas.edu:/pub/porter

   The complete code for "Inside Case-Based Reasoning" by Riesbeck and
   Schank, 1989, is available by anonymous ftp from
      cs.umd.edu:/pub/schank/icbr/
   This includes code for an instructional version of CHEF by Kristian
   Hammond and MICRO-xxx. Contact Bill Andersen <[e-mail]>
   for more information.

CLOS Software:
   See question [5-6].

Constraint Programming and Non-determinism:

   SCREAMER:

   Screamer is an extension of Common Lisp that adds support for
   nondeterministic programming.  Screamer consists of two levels.  The
   basic nondeterministic level adds support for backtracking and
   undoable side effects.  On top of this nondeterministic substrate,
   Screamer provides a comprehensive constraint programming language in
   which one can formulate and solve mixed systems of numeric and
   symbolic constraints.  Together, these two levels augment Common Lisp
   with practically all of the functionality of both Prolog and
   constraint logic programming languages such as CHiP and CLP(R).
   Furthermore, Screamer is fully integrated with Common Lisp. Screamer
   programs can coexist and interoperate with other extensions to Common
   Lisp such as CLOS, CLIM and Iterate.

   In several ways Screamer is more efficient than other implementations
   of backtracking languages.  First, Screamer code is transformed into
   Common Lisp which can be compiled by the underlying Common Lisp
   system.  Many competing implementations of nondeterministic Lisp are
   interpreters and thus are far less efficient than Screamer.  Second,
   the backtracking primitives require fairly low overhead in Screamer.
   Finally, this overhead to support backtracking is only paid for those
   portions of the program which use the backtracking primitives.
   Deterministic portions of user programs pass through the Screamer to
   Common Lisp transformation unchanged.  Since in practise, only small
   portions of typical programs utilize the backtracking primitives,
   Screamer can produce more efficient code than compilers for languages
   in which backtracking is more pervasive.

   Screamer is fairly portable across most Common Lisp implementations.
   It currently runs under Genera 8.1.1 and 8.3 on both Symbolics 36xx
   and Ivory machines, under Lucid 4.0.2 and 4.1 on Sun SPARC machines,
   under MCL 2.0 and 2.0p2 on Apple Macintosh machines, and under Poplog
   Common Lisp on Sun SPARC machines.  It should run under any
   implementation of Common Lisp which is compliant with CLtL2 and with
   minor revision could be made to run under implementations compliant
   with CLtL1 or dpANS.

   Screamer is available by anonymous FTP from
      ftp.ai.mit.edu:/pub/screamer.tar.Z
   Contact Jeffrey Mark Siskind <[e-mail]> for further
   information. Screamer is also available from the Common Lisp Repository.

   The Screamer Tool Repository, a collection of user-contributed
   Screamer code, is available by anonymous ftp from
      ftp.cis.upenn.edu:/pub/screamer-tools/
   or by WWW from
      http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~screamer-tools/home.html
   Please direct all inquires about the repository to
   [e-mail].

Defeasible Reasoning:

   An implementation of J. Paris and A. Vencovska's model of belief is
   available by anonymous ftp from
      ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/areas/reasonng/defeasbl/belief/
   Paris and Vencovska's paper (Artificial Intelligence, 64(2), December
   1993) provides a mathematical model of an agent's belief in an event
   by identifying it with his ability to imagine the event within the
   context of his previous experience.  This approach leads to beliefs
   having properties different from those normally ascribed to it. The
   implementation was written by Ian Pratt <[e-mail]> and Jens
   Doerpmund <[e-mail]> and runs in Common Lisp.

Eliza and Similar Programs:

   See Peter Norvig's book and AI_ATTIC (question [6-1] above).

   The doctor.el is an implementation of Eliza for
   GNU-Emacs emacs-lisp. Invoke it with "Meta-X doctor"

   muLISP-87 (a MSDOS Lisp sold by Soft Warehouse) includes
   a Lisp implementation of Eliza.

   Implementations of ELIZA for other languages are mentioned in the AI FAQ.

   The original Parry (in MLISP for a PDP-10) is available in
   labrea.stanford.edu:/pub/parry.tar.Z.

   Other programs, such as RACTER, are listed in part 4 of the AI FAQ.

Expert Systems:

   FOCL is an expert system shell and machine learning program written in
   Common Lisp. The machine learning program extends Quinlan's FOIL
   program by containing a compatible explanation-based learning
   component.  FOCL learns Horn Clause programs from examples and
   (optionally) background knowledge. The expert system includes a
   backward-chaining rule interpreter and a graphical interface to the
   rule and fact base. For details on FOCL, see: Pazzani, M. and Kibler,
   D., "The role of prior knowledge in inductive learning", Machine
   Learning 9:54-97, 1992. It is available by anonymous ftp from
      ics.uci.edu:/pub/machine-learning-programs/
   as the files README.FOCL-1-2-3, FOCL-1-2-3.cpt.hqx (a binhexed,
   compacted Macintosh application), FOCL-1-2-3.tar.Z (Common Lisp
   source code), and FOCL-1-2-3-manual.hqx (binhexed manual).  If you
   use a copy of FOCL, or have any comments or questions, send mail to
   [e-mail].

   BABYLON is a development environment for expert systems. It
   includes frames, constraints, a prolog-like logic formalism, and a
   description language for diagnostic applications. It is implemented in
   Common Lisp and has been ported to a wide range of hardware platforms.
   Available by anonymous ftp from
      ftp.gmd.de:/gmd/ai-research/Software/Babylon/ [129.26.8.84]
   as a BinHexed stuffit archive, on the Web via the URL
      http://www.gmd.de/
   on the Apple CD-ROM, or with the book "The AI Workbench BABYLON",
   which contains *full source code* of BABYLON and the stand-alone
   version for the Mac. The book describes the use of BABYLON in detail.

   OPS5 is a public domain Common Lisp implementation of the OPS5
   production system interpreter written by Charles Forgy. It is
   available from the CMU AI Repository in
      ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/areas/expert/ops5/
   and includes the original port by George Wood and Jim Kowalski
   (ops5orig.tar.gz), and a later port by Mark Kantrowitz (ops5.tar.gz).
   The latter has been tested under Allegro, Lucid, CMU CL, Ibuki CL and
   MCL.

Frame Languages:

   FrameWork is a portable generic frame system available from the CMU
   AI Repository, in
      ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/areas/kr/frames/framework/

   THEO (learning frame system) is available free from CMU, after
   signing a license agreement. Send mail to [e-mail].

   FrameKit is available free from CMU, after signing a
   license agreement. Send mail to [e-mail]

   KR. Send mail to [e-mail] for more info.

   PARKA. Frames for the CM. Contact [e-mail].

   PARMENIDES (Frulekit) is available free, after signing
   a license agreement. Send mail to [e-mail]

   FROBS is available free by anonymous ftp from
   cs.utah.edu:/pub/frobs.tar.Z
   Contact Robert Kessler <[e-mail]> for more info.

   PFC is a simple frame system written by Tim Finin
   available free by anonymous ftp from linc.cis.upenn.edu.

   YAK is a hybrid knowledge-representation system of the
   KL-ONE family. Includes an optional graphical interface
   depending on the Lisp. Available free after signing a license
   agreement. Contact Enrico Franconi <[e-mail]>.

Genetic Algorithms:

   GECO (Genetic Evolution through Combination of Objects) is a
   genetic algorithm shell written by George Williams,
   <[e-mail]>. It is available by anonymous ftp
   from cambridge.apple.com:/pub/mcl2/contrib/ as the following
   files:
      GECO-v1.0.cpt.hqx       binhex'd Compact Pro archive
      GECO-v1.0.tar.Z         compressed tar file for Unix machines (no MCL
                              fonts)
      GECO.abstract           a brief description
   It runs in MCL 2.0, but should be portable among CLtL2 compliant
   Common Lisps.

   GAL is a genetic algorithm suite written by Bill Spears of NRL. The
   MCL2.0 port was done by Howard Oakley <[e-mail]> and
   is available from cambridge.apple.com:/pub/MCL2/contrib as
   GAL.sea.hqx.  Improvements and adaptations should be sent to Bill
   Spears, but questions on the MCL port should be directed to Howard Oakley.

   Other genetic algorithms code is available
      ftp.aic.nrl.navy.mil:/pub/galist
   including Genesis (source-code/ga-source/genesis.tar.Z) and the archives
   of the GA-List mailing list. A survey of free and commercial
   genetic algorithms implementations is available in
   information/ga-software-survey.txt.

Knowledge Representation:

   KNOWBEL is an implementation of Telos (a sorted/temporal logic
   system) by Bryan M. Kramer, <[e-mail]>. It is
   available by anonymous ftp from ai.toronto.edu:/pub/kr/ as the
   files knowbel.tar.Z and manual.txt.tar.Z
   Runs in Allegro CL on Sparcstations and Silicon Graphics 4d
   and in MCL on Apple Macintoshes.

   SNePS (Semantic Network Processing System) is the implementation of a
   fully intensional theory of propositional knowledge representation and
   reasoning. SNePS includes a module for creating and accessing
   propositional semantic networks, path-based inference, node-based
   inference based on SWM (a relevance logic with quantification) that
   uses natural deduction and can deal with recursive rules, forward,
   backward and bi-directional inference, nonstandard logical connectives
   and quantifiers, an assumption based TMS for belief revision, a
   morphological analyzer and a generalized ATN (GATN) parser for parsing
   and generating natural language, SNePSLOG, a predicate-logic-style
   interface to SNePS, XGinseng, an X-based graphics interface for
   displaying, creating and editing SNePS networks, SNACTor, a
   preliminary version of the SNePS Acting component, and SNIP 2.2, a new
   implementation of the SNePS Inference Package that uses rule shadowing
   and knowledge migration to speed up inference.  SNeRE (the SNePS
   Rational Engine), which is part of Deepak Kumar's dissertation about
   the integration of inference and acting, will replace the current
   implementation of SNACTor.  SNePS is written in Common Lisp, and has
   been tested in Allegro CL 4.1, Lucid CL 4.0, TI Common Lisp, CLISP
   May-93, and CMU CL 17b. It should also run in Symbolics CL, AKCL 1.600
   and higher, VAX Common Lisp, and MCL. The XGinseng interface is built
   on top of Garnet.  SNePS 2.1 is free according to the GNU General
   Public License version 2. The SNePS distribution is available by
   anonymous ftp from
      ftp.cs.buffalo.edu:/pub/sneps/  [128.205.32.9]
   as the file rel-x-yyy.tar.Z, where 'x-yyy' is the version. The other
   files in the directory are included in the distribution; they are
   duplicated to let you get them without unpacking the full distribution
   if you just want the bibliography or manual. If you use SNePS, please
   send a short message to [e-mail] and
   [e-mail]. Please also let them know whether you'd like to
   be added to the SNUG (SNePS Users Group) mailing list.

   COLAB (COmpilation LABoratory) is a hybrid knowledge representation
   system emphasizing the horizontal and vertical compilation of
   knowledge bases. It is comprised of cooperating subsystems -- CONTAX,
   FORWARD, RELFUN and TAXON -- which deal with different knowledge
   representation and reasoning formalisms. Each subsystem can also be
   used as stand-alone system. CONTAX deals with constraint nets and
   constraint-propagation techniques. Relational knowledge in the form of
   Horn rules is processed by forward (FORWARD) and backward (RELFUN)
   chaining. Taxonomic knowledge is represented by intensional concept
   definitions which are automatically arranged in a subsumption
   hierarchy (TAXON).  The COLAB software was developed at DFKI and the
   University of Kaiserslautern and runs in Common Lisp. (The subsystems
   have been tested in AKCL and Lucid CL, and possibly also Allegro CL
   and Symbolics CL.) All the subsystems are available free of charge for
   research purposes.
   o  RELFUN is a logic-programming language with call-by-value (eager),
      non-deterministic, non-ground functions, and higher-order operations.
      It accepts freely interchangeable LISP-style and PROLOG-style syntaxes.
      For sources to RELFUN and copies of relevant papers, contact
      Dr. Harold Boley, DFKI, Postfach 2080, W-6750 Kaiserslautern, Germany,
      call [phone], fax [phone], or send email to
      [e-mail].
   o  TAXON is a terminological knowledge representation system extended by
      concrete domains.  For sources to TAXON and copies of relevant papers,
      contact Philipp Hanschke, DFKI, Postfach 2080, W-6750 Kaiserslautern,
      Germany, call [phone], fax [phone], or send email to
      [e-mail].
   o  CONTAX is a constraint system for weighted constraints over
      hierarchically structured finite domains. CONTAX uses CLOS in addition
      to Common Lisp.  For sources to CONTAX and copies of relevant papers,
      contact Manfred Meyer, DFKI, Postfach 2080, W-6750 Kaiserslautern,
      Germany, call [phone], fax [phone], or send email to
      [e-mail].
   o  FORWARD is a logic programming language with bottom-up and top-down
      evaluation of Horn clauses. For sources to FORWARD and copies of
      relevant papers, contact Knut Hinkelmann, DFKI, Postfach 2080, W-6750
      Kaiserslautern, Germany, call [phone], fax [phone],
      or send email to [e-mail].

   URANUS is a logic-based knowledge representation language. Uranus is
   an extension of Prolog written in Common Lisp and using the syntax of
   Lisp. Uranus extends Prolog with a multiple world mechanism for
   knowledge representation and term descriptions to provide
   functional programming within the framework of logic programming.
   It is available free by anonymous ftp from
      etlport.etl.go.jp:/pub/uranus/ftp/ [192.31.197.99]
   for research purposes only.  For more information contact the author,
   Hideyuki Nakashima <[e-mail]>.

Languages and Alternate Syntaxes:

   Generalized Lisp (or Glisp for short) is a coordinated set of high
   level syntaxes for Common Lisp.  Initially GLisp consists of three
   dialects: Mlisp, Plisp and ordinary Lisp, together with an extensible
   framework for adding others.  Mlisp (Meta-Lisp) is an Algol-like
   syntax for people who don't like writing parentheses. For example,
   one can write print("abc", stream) instead of (print "abc" stream).
   Plisp (Pattern Lisp) is a pattern matching rewrite-rule language.
   Plisp is a compiler-compiler; its rules are optimized for writing
   language translators.  All dialects may be freely intermixed in a
   file. The translators for all dialects are written in Plisp, as is
   the Glisp translator framework itself. Support routines for the
   translators are written in Mlisp and/or Lisp. All dialects are
   translated to Common Lisp and execute in the standard Common Lisp
   environment. Glisp is available by anonymous ftp from apple.com or
      ftp.apple.com:/dts/mac/lisp/glisp.tar.Z
   GLISP runs in MCL and has to be modified for other Common Lisp
   implementations.

   CGOL is algol-like language that is translated into Lisp before
   execution. It was developed originally by Vaughn Pratt. A Common Lisp
   implementation of CGOL is available by anonymous ftp from
      peoplesparc.berkeley.edu:/pub/cgol.1.tar.Z  [128.32.131.14]
   (The number "1" may increase if newer versions are posted.)  It was
   written by a UC Berkeley graduate student, Tom Phelps, as a term
   project, so there may still be some rough edges. There is a lot of
   documentation in the distribution, including the "original" CGOL memo
   (pratt.memo). For more information, contact Richard Fateman
   <[e-mail]>.

   StarLisp Simulator. The StarLisp Simulator simulates *Lisp, one of
   the programming langauges used to program the Connection Machine.
   StarLisp runs under Symbolics, Lucid, Allegro, and Franz, and is
   available by anonymous ftp from
      think.com:/cm/starlisp/starsim-f19-sharfile
   The "CM5 *Lisp Tutorial" is available by anonymous ftp from
      arp.anu.edu.au:/ARP/papers/starlisp/  [150.203.20.2]
   in Andrew "ez" and postscript formats.  Write to Zdzislaw Meglicki
   <[e-mail]> for more information about the tutorial.

   InterLisp->Common-Lisp Translator -- ftp.ai.sri.com:/pub/pkarp/lisp/ilisp/
   Other InterLisp to Common Lisp translators may be found in the LispUsers
   archive listed above.

   The Yale Haskell system runs in CMU Common Lisp, Lucid CL, and AKCL.
   It is available by anonymous ftp from
        Chalmers animal.cs.chalmers.se:/pub/haskell/yale/ [129.16.225.66]
        Glasgow  ftp.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk:/pub/haskell/yale/ [130.209.240.50]
        Yale     nebula.cs.yale.edu:/pub/haskell/yale/    [128.36.13.1]
   as the files
        haskell-beta-2-source.tar.Z   -- full sources
        haskell-beta-2-sparc.tar.Z    -- sparc executable

Lisp Tools:

   See the Common Lisp Repository in [6-2].

   The Automatic Memoization Facility adds a practical memoization
   facility to Common Lisp. Automatic memoization is a technique by which
   an existing function can be transformed into one that "remembers"
   previous arguments and their associated results, yielding large
   performance gains for certain types of applications.  This facility
   extends the ideas from Norvig's book into what is needed for a
   practical tool for us in large programs. It adds facilities for
   bookkeeping and timing, and lets you evaluate of the timing advantages
   of memoization, and save hash tables to disk for automatic reuse in
   later sessions. The code is available by anonymous ftp from
   archive.cs.umbc.edu:/pub/Memoization [130.85.100.53]. Contact Marty Hall
   <[e-mail]> for more information. The code includes an
   overview of memoization and its applications.

   PLisp - A Common Lisp front end to Postscript. This translates many
   Common Lisp functions to postscript as well as manage the environment
   and many lispisms (&optional and &rest arguments, multiple values,
   macros, ...).  Available via anonymous ftp
         nebula.cs.yale.edu:/pub/plisp/plisp.tar.Z [128.36.13.1]
   Written by John Peterson <[e-mail]>.

   RegExp is an extension to Allegro Common Lisp which adds
   regular expression string matching, using the foreign
   function interface. Available by anonymous ftp from
   ftp.ai.sri.com:/pub/pkarp/regexp/. Contact [e-mail]
   for more information.

   ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de:/pub/xit/cl-utilities/ contains
   three small utilities:
        completion.lisp         A simple filename completion program.
        cl-utilities.lisp       Some macros for dealing with points,
                                regions, and some miscellaneous macros.
        copy-objects.lisp       Code for copying instances.

   think.com:/think/lisp contains some useful lisp code (most of it
   Symbolics dependent) including:
        lisp-lint.lisp          A set of compiler style checkers that
                                warn when a function call does not
                                conform to Common Lisp.

   MEASURES is a system to handle engineering numbers and measures in
   Common Lisp. It runs in Allegro CL, Lispworks, MCL, and Symbolics CL.
   Written by Roman Cunis.  Some documentation can be found in the file
   measures.doc and examples in measures-example.lisp.  It is available
   from the Common Lisp Repository
      ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/lang/lisp/lisp/syntax/
   in the file measures-2.0.tar.gz.  For further information, contact Ralf
   Moeller, University of Hamburg, Bodenstedtstr 16, 2000 Hamburg 50,
   Germany, call 40-4123-6134, fax [phone], or send email to
   [e-mail].

   DEFTABLE provides a macro that unifies the interface to Common
   Lisp's table-like data structures (e.g., association lists, property
   lists, and hash tables). Written by Peter Norvig
   <[e-mail]>.  It is available by anonymous ftp from
   ftp.ai.mit.edu:/pub/lptrs/deftable.lisp [128.52.32.6] and also the
   Lisp Utilities Repository. An article describing deftable was
   published in ACM Lisp Pointers 5(4):32-38, December 1992.

   SEQUEL (SEQUEnt processing Language) is designed both as a general
   purpose AI language for generating type-secure and efficient Lisp
   programs and as a very high level specification language for
   implementing logics on the computer. Designed at the University of
   Leeds, SEQUEL compiles sequent-calculus specifications of arbitrary
   logics to working proof assistants.  The sequent calculus
   specifications are compiled into Horn clauses and from Horn clauses
   into virtual machine instructions of an abstract machine SLAM (SequeL
   Abstract Machine) which then translates these instructions into
   efficient Lisp code using WAM-style compilation techniques.  Although
   a functional programming language, SEQUEL includes facilities for
   backtracking usually associated with logic programming, and supports a
   pattern-matching method of building functions based on Prolog
   notation.  The Lisp code generated from SEQUEL functions is completely
   portable and runs in most Common Lisp implementations. It is
   comparable in efficiency with hand-written code.  SEQUEL also supports
   optional static type-checking in the manner of SML and similar
   languages.  With type-checking enabled, all inputs and loaded files
   are type-checked and the resulting Lisp programs are type-secure.  The
   SEQUEL compiler uses the information gleaned from type-checking to add
   compiler directives within the generated Lisp functions to produce
   optimized Lisp programs.  SEQUEL includes a UNIX-style top level with
   its own trace package and type-checking debugger. SEQUEL is also of
   interest to automated reasoning researchers. It provides a very
   powerful means of generating proof assistants and theorem provers that
   have a very fast performance using WAM-derived compilation techniques.
   The theorem provers are automatically verified. It includes a facility
   for Datalog and an efficient occurs-check Horn-clause-to-Lisp
   compiler, a mouse driven graphical interface for all proof assistants
   and theorem provers built under SEQUEL (currently available only under
   Lucid).  Several demonstration theorem provers for different logics,
   including FOL, Clarke's logic of space, partial evaluation, set
   theory, and constructive type theory are available.  SEQUEL runs under
   Kyoto CL, Lucid CL, and CMU Common Lisp.  SEQUEL is available free for
   non-commercial purposes by anonymous ftp from
      agora.leeds.ac.uk:/scs/logic/  [129.11.144.130]
   and includes LaTeX documentation in the distribution. For more
   information, contact Mark Tarver <[e-mail]> or
   <[e-mail]>.

   ILU (Xerox PARC Inter-Language Unification) is a system for promoting
   language interoperability via interfaces between units of program
   structure called "modules". ILU currently supports Common Lisp, ANSI
   C, C++, and Modula-3. The Common Lisp support provides CLOS `network
   objects' that communicate via RPC between Lisp processes, as well
   between Lisp and other languages.  ILU is available by anonymous ftp
   from
      parcftp.parc.xerox.com:/pub/ilu/1.6.4/ilu-1.6.4.tar.gz
   Write to Bill Janssen <[e-mail]> for more information.

Machine Learning:

   ID3: A Lisp implementation of ID3 and other machine learning
   algorithms are available by anonymous ftp from the machine learning
   group at the University of Texas as cs.utexas.edu:/pub/mooney

   COBWEB/3 is a concept formation system available free after
   signing a license agreement. Contact [e-mail]
   for more information.

   RWM (Refinement With Macros) is a Common Lisp program for learning
   problem solving strategies. RWM takes a high level description of a
   problem as input and successively refines it into a sequence of
   "easier" subproblems, which collectively constitute a strategy for
   solving the given problem. RWM also learns macro moves which are
   useful for efficiently solving the problem. A short documentation and
   some example problems/strategies are included. To get a copy of this
   description, send mail to the Bilkent University Archieve Server
   [e-mail] with "send RWM.tar.Z" in the body of the
   message. For further information, contact H. Altay Guvenir
   <[e-mail]>.

Mathematics:

   MockMma -- peoplesparc.berkeley.edu:/pub/mma.tar.Z       [128.32.131.14]
   A Mathematica-style parser written in Common Lisp. Written by Richard
   Fateman; [e-mail]. Runs in any valid Common Lisp.
   Tested in Allegro, KCL and Lucid.

   rascal.ics.utexas.edu:/pub/             128.83.138.20
      Maxima for Common Lisp (License required from National
      Energy Software Center at Argonne.) Ported by Bill Schelter.

   QUAIL (Quantitative Analysis in Lisp) extends Common Lisp to better
   support quantitative analysis. It includes an object-oriented
   quantitative analysis programming environment based on CLOS.  Quail
   was developed by the Statistical Computing Laboratory of the
   Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science of the University of
   Waterloo.  It includes a variety of mathematical and statistical
   capabilities, such as symbolic and numerical differentiation,
   numerical integration, probability calculations (e.g., pseudo-random
   number generation), and statistical response models.  The
   object-oriented graphics display facilities include building blocks
   for arbitrary graphics, a collection of stock statistical graphics,
   function plotting, 3d-rotating function and surface plots, and
   graphical browsers. Quail currently runs in MCL, but a Franz and CLX
   based version is forthcoming. It is available by anonymous ftp from
      setosa.uwaterloo.ca:/pub/Quail/ [129.97.141.101]
   You must read the file README-I-MEAN-IT and return a signed copy of
   the license agreement ($10 annual license fee) before using the
   software. For further information, contact Dr. R. W. Oldford,
   <[e-mail]> or <[e-mail]>.

Medical Reasoning:

   TMYCIN -- sumex-aim.stanford.edu:/tmycin  The TMYCIN rule based system.

Music:

   Common Music is a music composition language written in Common Lisp
   and CLOS that outputs music (directly or through scorefiles) to a
   variety of synthesis packages, such as the Music Kit, Common Lisp
   Music, MIDI, and CSound.  Common Music runs under MCL 2.0, Allegro CL
   3.1.2 (NeXT), AKCL 1.615 (NeXT), Allegro CL 4.1 beta (SGI Iris), and
   AKCL 6.15 (Sun4). It is available by anonymous ftp from
      ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu:/pub/Lisp/cm.tar.Z [36.49.0.93]
      ftp.zkm.de:/pub/cm.tar.Z             [192.101.28.17]
   To be added to the mailing list, send mail to
   [e-mail]. For further information, contact
   Rick Taube, <[e-mail]> or <[e-mail]>.
   [Note: In the Common Music sources, there is a generic portable Lisp
   Listener style interpreter that supports command dispatching in
   addition to Lisp evaluation. It is the file ./utils/tl.lisp.]

   Common Lisp Music (CLM) is a software synthesis and signal
   processing package (CL-MUSIC) and a package that makes it relatively
   easy to take advantage of the Motorola DSP 56000 (CL-MUSIC-56).  It is
   available by anonymous ftp from
      ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu:/pub/Lisp/clm.tar.Z [36.49.0.93]
   Basic documentation is in clm.wn (or clm.rtf) and
   ins.lisp.  CLM runs on NeXT under Allegro CL or KCL and on SGI Indigo
   under Allegro CL. The non-56000 version should run on any machine with
   C and Common Lisp. Send bug reports or suggestions to
   Bil Schottstaedt <[e-mail]>.

   Common Music Notation (CMN) is a western music notation package based on
   Common Lisp, CLOS (pcl), PostScript, and the Adobe Sonata font. It is
   available by anonymous ftp from
      ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu:/pub/Lisp/cmn.tar.Z [36.49.0.93]
   To be added to the mailing list (same list as for Common Music),
   send mail to [e-mail].  Please send bug
   reports and suggestions to Bil Schottstaedt <[e-mail]>.

Natural Language Processing:

   The Xerox part-of-speech tagger is available by anonymous ftp from
   parcftp.xerox.com:/pub/tagger/tagger-1-0.tar.Z. It is implemented in
   Common Lisp and has been tested in Allegro CL 4.1, CMU CL 16e, and
   Macintosh CL 2.0p2. For more information, contact the authors, Doug
   Cutting <[e-mail]>, and Jan Pedersen
   <[e-mail]>. [Note: Doug Cutting is no longer at
   PARC, so his address may be obsolete.]

Natural Language Generation:

   FUF is a natural language generation system based on Functional
   Unification Grammars implemented in Common Lisp. It includes a
   unifier, a large grammar of English (surge), a user manual and many
   examples. FUF is available by anonymous ftp from
      cs.columbia.edu:/pub/fuf/
      black.bgu.ac.il:/pub/fuf/
   as the files fuf5.2.tar.Z and surge.tar.Z. For further information,
   contact the author, Michael Elhadad <[e-mail]>.
   [A WAM-based C compiler for FUF is in the works.]

Neural Networks:

   ANSIL  -- nervous.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/lispusers/ansil/
             "Advanced Network Simulator in Lisp"
             email: [e-mail]

Object-Oriented Programming:

   PCL -- parcftp.xerox.com:/pcl/ [13.1.64.94]
   Portable Common Loops (PCL) is a portable implementation of
   the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS). A miniature CLOS
   implementation called Closette is available pcl/mop/closette.lisp.

   CLOS-on-KEE -- zaphod.lanl.gov:/pub/
   A subset of CLOS that is implemented on top of KEE. Contact
   [e-mail] (Skip Egdorf) for more info.

   MCS (Meta Class System) -- ftp.gmd.de:/lang/lisp/mcs/ [129.26.8.84]
   Portable object-oriented extension to Common Lisp. Integrates the
   functionality of CLOS (the Common Lisp Object System), and TELOS, (the
   object system of LeLisp Version 16 and EuLisp).  MCS provides a metaobject
   protocol which the user can specialize. Runs in any valid Common Lisp.
   Contact: Harry Bretthauer and Juergen Kopp, German National Research
   Center for Computer Science (GMD), AI Research Division,
   P.O. Box 1316, D-5205 Sankt Augustin 1, FRG, email: [e-mail]

   CommonORBIT (also called CORBIT) is an object-oriented extension of
   Common Lisp.  It uses a prototype (classless) model of OOP, is easy to
   use and yet has many sophisticated features found also in KL-ONE type
   languages.  CommonORBIT is a Common Lisp reimplementation of ORBIT,
   which was originally conceived by Luc Steels around 1981-1983.
   Because of its delegation-based rather than class-based inheritance,
   CommonORBIT offers extreme flexibility to define and change
   practically anything at run-time.  Because of the generic functions,
   it fits well into regular Lisp code.  It can co-exist with CLOS but
   remains completely separate. The source code of CommonORBIT is in the
   public domain and available by anonymous ftp from the Lisp
   Utilities Repository,
      ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/lang/lisp/
   in the oop/non-clos/corbit/ subdirectory as the file corbit.tar.gz.
   Documentation is available as the files corbit.msword.hqx, corbit.ps
   or corbit.text. A stripped-down version of CORBIT, known as BOOPS
   (Beginner's Object-Oriented Programming System), is also available
   from the repository as boops.tar.Z. For further information,
   contact the author, Koenraad de Smedt <[e-mail]>.


Parser Generators:

   Mark Johnson <[e-mail]> has written a LALR parser generator
   for Common Lisp. It is fairly small (about 500 lines of code) and
   can be found in the Common Lisp Repository above.

   IPG (Incremental Parser Generator) is available by email from
   Jan Rekers <[e-mail]>.  It is an appendix to his thesis. It is
   written in LeLisp, but should be portable to other Lisp dialects.

   Zebu 2.8.5 is a parser generator for Common Lisp by Joachim H. Laubsch
   <[e-mail]>.  It is an extention written in Common
   Lisp of the Scheme version.  It generates a LALR(1) parsing table.  To
   parse a string with a grammar, only this table and a driver need to be
   loaded. The present version of Zebu contains the ability to define
   several grammars and parsers simultaneously, a declarative framework
   for specifying the semantics, as well as efficiency related
   improvements.  The current version compiles a grammar with 300
   productions (including dumping of the tables to disk) in approx 2
   minutes and 30 seconds on a HP 9000/370.  This implimentation has been
   tested in Lucid CL, Allegro CL, and MCL 2.0b. The current version
   can also produce a generator in addition to a parser. A copy may be
   found on cambridge.apple.com:/pub/mcl2/contrib/zebu-2.2.tar.Z.


Probabilistic Reasoning and Statistics:

   BELIEF is a Common Lisp implementation of the Dempster and Kong fusion
   and propagation algorithm for Graphical Belief Function Models and the
   Lauritzen and Spiegelhalter algorithm for Graphical Probabilistic
   Models. It includes code for manipulating graphical belief models such
   as Bayes Nets and Relevance Diagrams (a subset of Influence Diagrams)
   using both belief functions and probabilities as basic representations
   of uncertainty. It is available by anonymous ftp from
      ftp.stat.washington.edu [128.95.17.34]
   and by email from the author, Russell Almond <[e-mail]>.
   Contact the author at [e-mail] for information about a
   commercial version GRAPHICAL-BELIEF currently in the prototype stages.

   XLISP-STAT is an extensible statistics package which runs in XLISP.
   It has recently been ported to Common Lisp, and is available as
      umnstat.stat.umn.edu:/pub/xlispstat/CL/CLS1.0A1.tar.Z [128.101.51.1]
   The CL port does not yet include the lisp-stat dynamic graphics
   package, only the numerics. The XLisp version is available from
   the above site and several mirror sites, such as mac.archive.umich.edu,
   and runs on the Apple Macintosh, Unix systems running X11
   (Vax, PMAX, Sun3, Encore Multimax, and Cray XMP), Sun workstations
   running SunView, and the Commodore Amiga. An experimental version
   for DOS computers running Microsoft Windows 3.0 is also available.
   Documentation is available online, in the tutorial introduction
   pub/xlispstat/xlispstat.doc.tar.Z and also in the book
      Luke Tierney, "Lisp-Stat: An Object Oriented Environment for Statistical
      Computing and Dynamic Graphics", Wiley, 1990, 397 pages.
      ISBN 0-471-50916-7.
   For more information, write to Lisp-Stat Information, School of
   Statistics, 270 Vincent Hall, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
   55455, or send e-mail to [e-mail].

   CLASP (Common Lisp Analytical Statistics Package) provides the basic
   functionality of a statistics package. It is implemented on top of
   CLOS and CLIM on a variety of platforms, and uses BBN's SciGraph
   package for plotting. The CLIM interface includes a "notebook" that is
   both a "desktop" for icons and a Lisp interactor pane.  The Common
   Lisp Instrumentation Package (CLIP) is available along with CLASP.
   CLIP is designed to allow AI system developers andevaluators a
   portable way to define and manage "alligator clips" for instrumenting
   their programs.  CLIP produces data about program behavior in CLASP
   format, as well as other commonly used data formats.  It currently has
   facilities to support experiment design, such as scenario scripting
   and factorial combination of independent variables, and can collect
   data in summary form (at the end of each trial) or based upon the
   occurrence of specific events (both periodic and non-periodic).  CLASP
   is available by anonymous ftp from
      ftp.cs.umass.edu:/pub/eksl/clasp/
   and CLIP is in the directory
      ftp.cs.umass.edu:/pub/eksl/clip/
   A tutorial on CLASP can be found in
      ftp.cs.umass.edu:/pub/eksl/clasp-tutorial/
   Bugs should be reported to [e-mail]. For more
   information, contact Dave Hart <[e-mail]>.

   IDEAL is a LISP system developed for building and evaluating influence
   diagrams and Bayesian networks.  It is accompanied with a graphical
   user interface (CLIM-based) for constructing, editing, and solving
   belief networks and influence diagrams. For more information, write
   to [e-mail].

Planning:

   NONLIN -- cs.umd.edu:/pub/nonlin (128.8.128.8)
   Common Lisp implementation of the NONLIN planning system originally
   designed and implemented by Austin Tate. Bugs can be reported to
   [e-mail]. User's group is [e-mail].
   The authors request that anybody ftping the code send a message to
   [e-mail], letting them know you have a copy
   and also letting them know if you wish to subscribe to the users group.
   More information can also be obtained from Jim Hendler, [e-mail].

   ABTWEAK is a complete hierarchical, non-linear planner that extends
   David Chapman's (MIT 1986) TWEAK planner as described by
   Yang (Waterloo) and Tenenberg (Rochester) in 1989.  This implementation
   includes a complete search strategy suited to abstraction hierarchies
   known as LEFT-WEDGE (Woods 1991). This planner and related work
   predates that of SNLP. ABTWEAK is available by anonymous ftp from
      logos.uwaterloo.ca:/pub/abtweak/Abtweak.tar.Z
   For more information, send mail to Qiang Yang <[e-mail]>.
   Also, source, all related papers, and manuals are available via WWW
   at the home page of Steve Woods <[e-mail]>,
   on URL http://logos.uwaterloo.ca/students/sgwoods/sgwoods.html, or via the
   Logic Programming and Artificial Intelligence Group (LPAIG) page
   on URL http://logos.uwaterloo.ca/.

   RHETORICAL is a planning and knowledge tool available by
   anonymous ftp from cs.rochester.edu:/pub/knowledge-tools
   in the files rhet-19-40.tar.Z and cl-lib-3-11.tar.Z. The files
   tempos-3-6.tar.Z and timelogic-5-0.tar.Z add James Allen's
   interval logic to Rhet. It runs on Symbolics Genera and
   Allegro Common Lisp. Written by Brad Miller <[e-mail]>.

   PRODIGY is an integrated planning and learning system,
   available free after signing a license agreement. Contact
   [e-mail] for more information.

   SOAR is an integrated intelligent agent architecture currently
   being developed at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of
   Michigan, and the Information Sciences Institute of the University of
   Southern California. SOAR, and its companion systems, CParaOPS5 and
   TAQL, have been placed in the public domain. The system may be
   retrieved by anonymous ftp to ftp.cs.cmu.edu (or any other CMU CS
   machine) in the directory /afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/soar/5.2/2/public/.
   [Note: You must cd to this directory in one atomic operation, as
   superior directories may be protected during an anonymous ftp.]  For
   more information, send email to [e-mail] or write to
   The Soar Group, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
   University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.  Finally, though the software is in
   the public domain, the manual remains under copyright. To obtain one
   (at no charge) send a request (including your physical mail address)
   to [e-mail] or to the physical address above.

   A simple route planning agent implemented in Soar6 is available by
   anonymous ftp from
      earth.med.ohio-state.edu:/pub/IEEE-Soar-code/route-planning.soar6.
   This is the complete code for the agent described in the IEEE Expert
   article: Smith, J. W. and Johnson, T. R., "A stratified approach to
   specifying, designing, and building knowledge systems", IEEE Expert,
   8(3):15-25, 1993.

   SNLP is a domain independent systematic nonlinear planner,
   available by anonymous ftp from cs.washington.edu:/pub/snlp.tar.Z
   Contact [e-mail] for more information.

   IDM is a Common Lisp implementation of both a classical and extended
   version of the STRIPS planner. It is available by anonymous ftp from
   sauquoit.gsfc.nasa.gov (128.183.101.29). Questions, comments and bug
   reports may be sent to [e-mail].

Planning Testbeds:

   TILEWORLD is a planning testbed/simulator developed at SRI
   International by Martha Pollack, Michael Frank and Marc
   Ringuette. TILEWORLD originally ran under Lucid CL, but was
   later extended and ported to Allegro CL by Badr H. Al-Badr
   and Steve Hanks. The new tileworld is available by anonymous
   ftp from cs.washington.edu as the file new-tileworld.tar.Z
   It includes an X interface. Contact [e-mail] for more
   information.

   TRUCKWORLD is a simulated world intended to provide a
   testbed for AI planning programs, where the planning agent
   is a truck with arms that roams around the simulated world. It is
   available by anonymous ftp from
      cs.washington.edu:/pub/ai/truckworld.tar.Z
   It includes an X interface. Contact Steve Hanks <[e-mail]>
   for more information. Send mail to
      [e-mail]
   to be added to the mailing list.

   ARS MAGNA is a simulated world intended for use as a testbed for
   planning and mapping programs.  The simulated agent is a robot in an
   indoors environment.  High-level sensing and action are provided,
   realistically modelled on current vision and robotics research.  It is
   written in Nisp, a macro package running on top of Common Lisp.  It is
   available by anonymous ftp from
      dept.cs.yale.edu:/pub/nisp/
   as file ars-magna.tar.Z.  It includes an X display.  Contact Sean Engelson
   <[e-mail]> for more information.

Qualitative Reasoning:

   QSIM is a qualitative reasoning system implemented in Common
   Lisp. It is available by anonymous ftp from cs.utexas.edu:/pub/qsim
   Contact Ben Kuipers <[e-mail]> for more information.

   QPE is the Qualitative Process Engine, an envisioner for QP theory.
   QPE is publically available from multivac.ils.nwu.edu:/pub/QPE
   Maintained by Ken Forbus <[e-mail]>.

Theorem Proving:

   MVL (Multi-Valued Logic) is a theorem proving system written in Common
   Lisp. MVL is a bilattice-based reasoning system.  By changing the
   bilattice, you can use MVL to do truth maintenance, nonmonotonic
   reasoning, first-order reasoning, and a variety of other reasoning
   strategies.  MVL is available by anonymous ftp from
      t.uoregon.edu:/mvl/mvl.tar.Z [128.223.56.46]
   as mvl.tar.Z. A user's manual may be found in the file manual.tex. For
   more information, contact Matthew L. Ginsberg, <[e-mail]>
   or <[e-mail]>. Matthew asks that you send him an email
   message if you retrieve the system by anonymous ftp.

   Boyer-Moore
   ftp.cli.com:/pub/nqthm/nqthm.tar.Z   Contact: [e-mail]
   rascal.ics.utexas.edu:/pub/             128.83.138.20
      nqthm/               Boyer and Moore's theorem prover.
                           Also available from ftp.cli.com:/pub/nqthm.
      proof-checker/       Matt Kaufmann's proof checking
                           enhancements to nqthm.
   The mailing list [e-mail] is for users of the
   Boyer-Moore theorem-prover, NQTHM.

   DTP is a general first-order theorem prover incorporating domain-independent
   control of inference (including intelligent backtracking and subgoal
   caching).  Implemented in CLtL2 Common Lisp, it runs in Franz Allegro,
   Lucid, and Macintosh (MCL) Common Lisp.  DTP is available on the Web at
      http://meta.stanford.edu/dtp/
   or by anonymous ftp from
      meta.stanford.edu:/pub/dtp/ [36.8.0.54]
   Contact Don Geddis <[e-mail]> for more information.

   RRL (Rewrite Rule Laboratory) -- herky.cs.uiowa.edu:/public/rrl
   [128.255.28.100]

   FRAPPS (Framework for Resolution-based Automated Proof Procedures) is
   a portable resolution theorem-prover written in Common Lisp. It is
   available via anonymous ftp from a.cs.uiuc.edu:/pub/frapps [128.174.252.1].
   If you take a copy of FRAPPS, please send a short note to Prof.
   Alan M. Frisch <[e-mail]>.

Truth Maintenance:

   The truth maintenance system and problem solver implementations
   described in the book "Building Problem Solvers" by Ken Forbus and
   Johan de Kleer are available by anonymous ftp from
   parcftp.xerox.com:/pub/bps/. Includes a constraint propagation
   system similar to Steele's Constraints system, among other things.
   For more information send mail to Johan de Kleer <[e-mail]>.

Virtual Reality:

   VEOS (Virtual Environment Operating Shell) is an extendible environment
   for prototyping distributed applications for Unix. The programmer's
   interface uses XLISP 2.1. Although intended for distributed
   Virtual Reality applications at The Human Interface Technology Lab
   in Seattle, it should be appropriate for other applications.  VEOS
   uses heavyweight sequential processes, corresponding roughly to
   unix processes. VEOS runs on DEC/5000, Sun4, and Silicon Graphics
   VGX and Indigo. VEOS is available by anonymous ftp from
      milton.u.washington.edu:/public/veos/ [128.95.136.1]
   as veos.tar.Z. If you use the software, the authors ask that you send
   them mail to [e-mail].

Vision:

   OBVIUS -- white.stanford.edu:/obvius/ [36.121.0.16]
             whitechapel.media.mit.edu:/obvius/ [18.85.0.125]
   Object-Based Vision and Image Understanding System (OBVIUS), is a Common
   Lisp image processing package. Provides a library of image processing
   routines (e.g., convolutions, fourier transforms, statistical
   computations, etc.) on gray or binary images and image-sequences (no
   color support yet), an X windows display interface, postscript printer
   output, etc.  It uses a homebrew interface to X11 (i.e., it does not use
   clx or clue). However, they eventually hope to port Obvius to a clx/clue
   platform. Written by David Heeger <[e-mail]> and Eero
   Simoncelli <[e-mail]>. Runs in Lucid-4.0. Includes
   LaTeX documentation and User's Guide.

Miscellaneous:

   ftp.csrl.aoyama.ac.jp:/YY/       YY window toolkit sources
   ftp.csrl.aoyama.ac.jp:/lispsrc/  Common Lisp programs, including MIT's FRL.

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Subject: [6-6] Formatting code in LaTeX (WEB and other literate
               programming tools)

SLaTeX is a R4RS-compliant Scheme program that allows you to write
program code "as is" in your LaTeX or TeX source.  It is particularly
geared to the programming languages Scheme and Common Lisp, and has
been tested in Chez Scheme, Common Lisp, MIT C Scheme, Elk, Scheme->C,
SCM and UMB Scheme on Unix; and MIT C Scheme and SCM on MSDOS.  The
formatting of the code includes assigning appropriate fonts to the
various tokens in the code (keywords, variables, constants, data), at
the same time retaining the proper indentation when going to the
non-monospace (non-typewriter) provided by TeX.  SLaTeX comes with two
databases that recognize the standard keywords/variables/constants of
Scheme and Common Lisp respectively.  These can be modified by the
user using easy TeX commands.  In addition, the user can inform SLaTeX
to typeset arbitrary identifiers as specially suited TeX expressions
(i.e., beyond just fonting them).  The code-typesetting program SLaTeX
is available by anonymous ftp from
   cs.rice.edu:/public/dorai/slatex23.tar.gz
Send bug reports to [e-mail].

SchemeWEB provides simple support for literate programming in Lisp.
SchemeWEB version 2.0 is a Unix filter that allows you to generate
both Lisp and LaTeX code from one source file.  The generated LaTeX
code formats Lisp programs in typewriter font obeying the spacing in
the source file.  Comments can include arbitrary LaTeX commands.
SchemeWEB was originally developed for the Scheme dialect of Lisp, but
it can easily be used with most other dialects.  Version 2.0 is
available in the Scheme Repository as
   cs.indiana.edu:/pub/scheme-repository/new/schemeweb.sh
or in the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) in the directory
   ftp.shsu.edu:/tex-archive/web/schemeweb

LiSP2TeX is a system that allows easy insertions of Scheme, or Lisp,
code towards TeX files. The originality of LiSP2TeX is that it
extracts Scheme definitions from the files where they appear and wraps
them appropriately within TeX macros for insertion into the
documentation file. LiSP2TeX decorrelates writing documentation from
programming: it is therefore possible to separately develop programs
and documentations and to merge them at the end to produce up to date
final documents. LiSP2TeX also has some pretty-printing capabilities
to produce denotations full of greek letters. It is available by
anonymous ftp from ftp.inria.fr:/INRIA/Projects/icsla/.

See also ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/lang/lisp/code/tools/user_man/.

The Literate Programming FAQ lists a number of alternatives, both
language-independent and Lisp-specific. The Literate Programming FAQ
is posted once a quarter to the comp.literate.programming newsgroup
and is available by anonymous ftp from rtfm.mit.edu. A copy may also be
requested by sending an email message to [e-mail]
   sendme litprog.faq
in the body of the message.

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Subject: [6-7] Where can I get an implementation of Prolog in Lisp?

Implementations of Prolog in Lisp:

   The Frolic package from the University of Utah is written in Common Lisp
   and available by anonymous ftp from cs.utah.edu:/pub/frolic.tar.Z

   LM-PROLOG by Ken Kahn and Mats Carlsson is written in ZetaLisp and not
   easily portable to Common Lisp. It is available by anonymous ftp from
   sics.se:/archive/lm-prolog.tar.Z.

   Peter Norvig's book "Paradigms of AI Programming" includes Common Lisp
   implementations of a prolog interpreter and compiler. The software is
   available by anonymous ftp from unix.sri.com:/pub/norvig/ and on disk in
   Macintosh or DOS format from the publisher, Morgan Kaufmann.  For more
   information, contact: Morgan Kaufmann, Dept. P1, 2929 Campus Drive, Suite
   260, San Mateo CA 94403, [phone]; FAX: [phone]

   Harlequin's LispWorks comes with Common Prolog -- a fast
   Edinburgh-compatible Prolog integrated with Common Lisp.  Write to:
   Harlequin Limited, Barrington Hall, Barrington, Cambridge, CB2 5RG, call
   0223 872522 (or 44223 872522 outside UK), telex 818440 harlqn g, fax 0223
   872519, or send email to [e-mail] (or [e-mail] for US people).

   eLP (Ergo Lambda Prolog) is an interpreter written by Conal Elliott,
   Frank Pfenning and Dale Miller in Common Lisp and implements the core
   of lambda Prolog (higher-order hereditary Harrop formulas). It is
   embedded in a larger development environment called ESS (the Ergo
   Support System).  eLP implements all core language feature and offers
   a module system, I/O, some facilities for tracing, error handling,
   arithmetic, recursive top-levels, on-line documentation and a number
   of extended examples, including many programs from Amy Felty's and
   John Hannan's thesis.  It should run in Allegro Common Lisp, Lucid
   Common Lisp, Kyoto Common Lisp, CMU Common Lisp and Ibuki Common Lisp.
   The eLP implementation of lambda Prolog is no longer developed or
   maintained, but it is still available via anonymous ftp from
   ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/ergo/export/ess/. The file
   ergolisp.tar.Z contains the Ergo project's extensions to Common Lisp,
   including some facilities for attributes and dealing with abstract
   syntax trees. The file sb.tar.Z contains the Ergo
   Parser/Unparser/Formatter generator and ab.tar.Z contains the Ergo
   Attribute Grammar facility. The file elp.tar.Z contains the Ergo
   implementation of lambda Prolog.  To customize grammars you need the
   sb.tar.Z file.  When you retrieve the system, please print, fill out,
   and send in a copy of the non-restrictive license you will find in the
   file LICENSE. To subscribe to the [e-mail] mailing list, send
   mail to [e-mail]. Bugs should be sent to
   [e-mail].

   The book "On Lisp" by Paul Graham includes an implementation of
   Prolog in Common Lisp. The code is available by anonymous ftp from
      endor.harvard.edu:/pub/onlisp
   and also in the CMU AI Repository as
      ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/lang/lisp/bookcode/graham/

See the Scheme FAQ for information on implementations of Prolog in Scheme.

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Subject: [6-8] World-Wide Web (WWW) Resources

The World Wide Web (WWW) is a hypermedia document that spans the
Internet.  It uses the http (HyperText Transfer Protocol) for the
light-weight exchange of files over the Internet.  NCSA Mosaic is a
World Wide Web browser developed at the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

Mosaic's popularity derives, in part, from its ability to communicate
using more traditional Internet protocols like FTP, Gopher, WAIS, and
NNTP, in addition to http. Mosaic can display text, hypertext links,
and inlined graphics directly. When Mosaic encounters a file type it
can't handle internally, such as Postscript documents, mpeg movies,
sound files, and JPEG images, it uses an external viewer (or player)
like Ghostscript to handle the file. Mosaic also includes facilities
for exploring the Internet. In other words, Mosaic is an multimedia
interface to the Internet.

The hypertext documents viewed with Mosaic are written in HTML
(HyperText Markup Language), which is a subset of SGML (Standard
Generalized Markup Language).  All that is needed is just a few more
improvements, such as the ability to format tables and mathematics,
and a WYSIWYG editor, for HTML to greatly facilitate electronic
journals and other publications.

NCSA Mosaic for the X Window System is available by anonymous ftp from
   ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu:/Mosaic/
as source code and binaries for Sun, SGI, IBM RS/6000, DEC Alpha OSF/1, DEC
Ultrix, and HP-UX. Questions about NCSA Mosaic should be directed to
[e-mail] (X-Windows version), [e-mail]
(Macintosh), and [e-mail] (Microsoft Windows).

A simple HTML version of the Lisp FAQ (this FAQ) is available as
   http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/Web/Groups/AI/html/faqs/lang/lisp/top.html

Association of Lisp Users:
   http://www.cs.rochester.edu/users/staff/miller/alu.html
   [Contains links to a lot of Lisp resources, including a history of
   Lisp, bibliographies of Lisp books, the Lisp Repository at CMU, and
   even some Lisp humor. Very nicely done.]
   Contact: Brad Miller <[e-mail]>

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