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Date: 16 Apr 85 13:33 PST
Sender: Sannella.pa
Subject: New FULL.SYSOUT with patches included
To: LispUsers↑.pa
From: LispSupport.pa
Reply-To: LispSupport.pa
{ERIS}<Lisp>INTERMEZZO>BASICS>FULL.SYSOUT;11 (16-Apr) is a new version of FULL.SYSOUT which includes all of the patches from {ERIS}<Lisp>INTERMEZZO>PATCHES> (see Patches.tedit for more information on the patches). As more patch files are created for Intermezzo, they will be incorporated into new versions of Full.sysout.
Lisp.sysout will not be changed -- if you wish to take advantage of the patches within this sysout, you must load them yourself.
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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 85 15:13:27 PST
From: Tom Yamarone <YAMARONE@SU-CSLI.ARPA>
Subject: SANDWICHES AT CSLI
To: FOLKS@SU-CSLI.ARPA
THE SANDWICH SERVICE IN A NUTSHELL FOR THE RECENTLY INFORMED:
SEND ORDERS FOR SANDWICHES, FRUIT(APPLES,BANANAS , ORANGES) & MILK (NO FRUIT
JUICES, YET) TO:
(USER:) LUNCH @CSLI
BEFORE 10:30 AM EACH WEEKDAY.
LATE ORDERS WON'T BE TAKEN, BUT THERE WILL BE SEVERAL SANDWICHES AVAILABLE
TO THOSE WHO HAVE SECOND THOUGHTS AT 12:05 PM..
MORE DATA:
THE SANDWICHES ARE MADE FRESH EACH DAY AND DELIVERED TO NUTS AND MUD AT TERMAN.
I GET THEM THERE AND THE VARIETY IS AS FOLLOWS:
ROAST BEEF ON ONION ROLL.
TURKEY ON ONION ROLL.
HAM ON RYE. $2.50
HAM AND SWISS ON RYE.
CHICKEN or TUNA SALAD ON WHOLE WHEAT.
VEGETARIAN(AVACADO &CHEESE)ON WHOLE WHEAT.
THEY'RE GARNISHED WITH THE APPROPRIATE INGREDIENTS..
FRUIT(APPLES ,BANANAS, ORANGES) .25
MILK (HOMOGENIZED, LOWFAT, NONFAT, CHOCOLATE) .25
YOU CAN ORDER BY COMPUTER OR BY PHONE: 49 7-0628 (ASK FOR SUSI)
PAY WHEN YOU PICK UP. EXACT CHANGE IS A PLUS!!!!!!
SEND ALL COMMENTS , ORDERS, COMPLIMENTS TO "LUNCH" @ CSLI..
CSLI SANDWICHES, INC. IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION.
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00672 00024 US
Date: 20 Apr 85 14:33 PST
From: HThompson.pa
Subject: New LISPUSERS package - TOGMENU
To: Lispusers↑.pa
Reply-to: HThompson.pa
New on {ERIS}<LISPUSERS> - TOGMENU(.DCOM,.TEDIT)
A package which implements a single-paned menu which cycles through a fixed set of names and values in response to left-buttoning. A function can be called as a name/value is entered/exited. Standard pop-up version available under the middle button. Intended for attaching to windows to display and allow modification of parameters affecting some process therein, and to implement START/STOP buttons, etc. See the TEDIT file for details.
Messages to HThompson.pa
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02756 00024 US
Sender: "Nanette E. Harter".osbunorth
Date: 21 Apr 85 16:12:38 PST (Sunday)
Subject: Speech I/O session at CHI'85
From: Harter.osbunorth
To: VoiceInterest↑.PA, SDD-UserInterfaces.osbunorth
cc: harter.osbunorth
Reply-to: Harter.osbunorth
ACM SIGCHI Conference held April 14-18, 1985, San Francisco had a session on Speech I/O .
chair: Susan Dray, Honeywell, Inc.
discussant: Richard Bolt, MIT
presenters: Mary Beth Rosson, Chris Schmandt, John Waterworth
M Rosson, IBM Watson Center, Listener Training for Speech-Output Applications
Dr. Rosson described the experiment and findings in research on users improved recognition of syntetic speech after selective exposure to subsets of English phonemes. In the first run 97% of natural speech was correctly identified; 75% of the syntetic speech was correctly identified. Question is what can be done to help retain the information? Possibilities: 1) Make the syntetic speech better, 2) Facilitate the Listening Process, and 3) (her work) Adapt the Listener to Synthetic Speech. She has found that human listeners do get better (and the "learning" lasts even without continuous exposure).
C Schmandt, MIT, Emulating Human Conversation to Achieve Interface Transparency.
Combining different methods of speech I/O methods make speech more powerful. One way is utilizing the telephone cable which is already used for speech. The Phone Slave is a computer hooked to the telephone to emulate human conversation patterns. It takes advantage of the limited domain and expectaions in a phone conversation. The machine takes control of the conversation by asking questions. Problems: 1) The phrasing of questions has been one of the dificult parts, 2) pacin is important, need to ready to record immediately, 3) noisy lines, 4) run-on speakers, computer interrupts with sound of clearing throat, then saying "I am just and answering machine" 5) determining speakers pause interval.
J.A. Waterworth and C. M Thomas, British Telecom Research Labs, Why is Synthetic Speech Harder to Remember than Natrual Speech?
Synthetic speech is less recalled and less accurately identified by human listeners. Ten words were played and listeners were asked to remember them in the correct order. Listeners either remembered the ealier words or concentrated on recognizing the synthetic words at the end but could not do both. There is evidence that identifying syntetic speech involves more processing but once recognized is remembered just as efficiently as natural speech.
Richard Bolt - discussant
I found two of his comments interesting. He would like to hear more successes of syntetic speech. Found by Bell Lab researches in 1954 that people understand better when seeing the speaker.
nanette
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00399 00024 US
Date: 22 Apr 85 13:31 PST
From: Suchman.pa
Subject: References requested
To: ISL↑.pa
cc: Suchman.pa
Reply-to: Suchman.pa
I'm looking for writings in or about AI that use sociological metaphors to describe computational processes. If you happen to have any favorites, or know of particularly exemplary examples, I would much appreciate a reference.
Thanks in advance,
Lucy
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00882 00024 US
Date: 22 Apr 85 17:08 PST
From: rhoades.pa
Subject: future move
To: AISBU-pa↑,ISL↑,AISBU-pasa↑.pasa
cc: Rhoades.pa
Reply-to: rhoades.pa
As the tentative plan is for AISBU to be moving over the first weekend of May, you should anticipate a potential interruption in services provided by Eris and Phylex: between Friday and Monday (5/3 - 5/5). We will do everything we can to minimize any inconvenience this will cause, but you should plan your own schedule pessimistically, and expect these services to be unavailable during this period. We expect Phylex: to be disabled sometime during the morning Friday 5/3, and available again by Monday morning 5/6. Eris users should only experience a short interruption in service, but we don't know exactly when or for how long. So..... please schedule your work accordingly.
Thanks for the understanding, Gary
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01095 00024 US
Date: 30 Apr 85 16:31 PDT
From: Lilly.pa
Subject: Invitation to BBQ - Friday, 5/3
To: AISBU-PA↑.Pa, ISL↑.Pa
cc: Lilly.pa
Reply-to: Lilly.pa
We (the AIS Product Development group) are leaving [Bldg. 35] (:-( [*sigh*] this upcoming Friday, May 3. To celebrate (???) this event, we are having a BBQ in the park behind Bldg. 32. [For all of you newcomers, Bldg. 32 is located at the corner of Hanover and California Avenue -- in Palo Alto!]. We are providing the meat (hamburgers and hot dogs), fire, chips, beverages,and hopefully music (ghetto blaster ?). If you would like to bring an appetizer, veggies of sorts, or dessert, please let Tami <DeMerritt> know the particulars by noon Thursday.
Who: you all
Time: noonish onward
Location: Park behind Bldg. 32 (on California Avenue)
Dress code: sit-on-the-grass clothes
Any questions ? Call Susi x4334 (til Friday) or Cheryl James x5726.
We look forward to seeing you all there!!
NOTE: Since the park does not have a parking lot, it's probably best to park at Bldg. 32 and walk to the park!
- Susi
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01721 00024 US
Date: 1 May 85 10:04:42 PDT (Wednesday)
From: Hoffman.ES
Subject: Xerox Grant Experiments at M.I.T.
To: ForumsAtParc↑.pa, ESForums↑.es, ParcForum↑.wbst
Reply-To: Hoffman.ES
Excerpted from:
WORKS Digest Monday, 29 Apr 1985 Volume 5 : Issue 19
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Date: Mon 29 Apr 85 09:33:27-EDT
From: John J. Doherty <JOHN@MIT-XX.ARPA>
Subject: SEMINAR
SEMINAR
DATE: April 29, 1985
TIME: Refreshments 1:50
Seminar 2:00
PLACE: NE43-512A
COMPUTER COMMUNITIES SEMINAR SERIES
Xerox Grant Experiments at M.I.T.
Prof. Thomas Malone
M.I.T. Sloan School
In the past year, under the Xerox University Grants Program, MIT has
received 25 Dandelion workstations, with the following three software
environments: Star, Interlisp-D, and Mesa/XDE (Xerox Development
Environment) and associated file and print servers. This talk will
describe the Xerox equipment, our plans for integrating it with the
MIT computing environment, and the research projects currently
underway by investigators in the Sloan School, Statistics Center, and
Operations Research Center.
The projects include: (1) an intelligent system for finding,
filtering, and routing electronic mail and other documents, (2) an
expert advisor for statistical analysis, (3) a distributed database
system, (4) a network name server, (5) group decision-making
experiments, and (6) interactive graphics tools for human-aided
optimization.
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(Tom Malone was with PARC until Sept. 83.)
--Rodney Hoffman
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01259 00024 US
Date: Wed, 1 May 85 11:39 PDT
From: Barclay.PA
Subject: EE380/Cs310 Seminar
To: ComputerResearch↑.pa
cc: Barclay
Reply-To: Barclay.PA
EE380/CS310 Seminar on Computer Systems
Title: High Speed Computer Graphics With Scan Line Access Memories
Speaker: Stefan Demetrescu, Computer Systems Laboratory
Time: Wednesday, May 1 @ 4:15pm
Place: Terman Audirorium (Stanford) or Video Classroom (PARC), channel E4
(12)
Abstract:
A Scan Line Access Memory (SLAM) consists of a dense semiconductor memory chip augmented with highly parallel but simple on-chip processors designed specifically for fast image rasterization. A system using SLAMs as an image frame buffer can achieve real-time graphics performance at a cost comparable to that of a static image buffer system. Such a SLAM system can rasterize typical polygons 100 to 1600 times faster than conventional architectures. Unlike many other proposed rasterization architectures, SLAMS can also rasterize vectors and bit-mapped characters effectively.
The presentation will include: (1) A discussion of the Architecture of the SLAM chip which has been built, (2) The architecture of a SLAM system, (3) A comparison with conventional graphics rasterization architectures.
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00692 00024 US
Date: Wed, 1 May 85 11:39 PDT
From: huberman.PA
Subject: Contract proposal
To: withgott
cc: huberman
Meg,
I talked with Ron and he informed me that the Darpa thing is iffy, mostly because the speech grants have already been awarded (or are in the process of). As to NTT, he have Spinrad a paragraph or two proposing research in semantic context (?) which might have some speech thing in it. (Sounds like something for the CSLI types). Unless the Darpa thing goes through, I do not think that my end of the bussiness will get much support. As to PI's he did not want to discuss it until he knows what will happen.
As you can see, I keep you informed...
Bernardo
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01177 00024 US
Date: Wed, 1 May 85 10:56 PDT
From: lavendel.PA
Subject: Xerox Decisions again
To: AllPA↑.PA
cc: , lavendel
Reply-To: lavendel.PA
"Xerox Introduces Computer Gear Aimed at Reviving Its Office Automation Effort," writes today's Wall Street Journal; the article is as favorable as anything the WSJ is likely to present. Excerpts:
"...a newly-refined strategy that moves its focus away from the broad personal-computer market and towards integrated systems... more emphasis on aggressive pricing, a new willingness to bridge its Ethernet... and, for the first time, machines that can use software written for the indutry standard IBM PC....Xerox's strategy, if it succeeds, could pressure Wang.. and, in particular, Apple Computer...Apple (does not) have a large sales force dealing directly with big corporate accounts...various consultants praised the new Xerox products...
"Analysts were impressed most by the features and pricing of the company's new 6085...introduced the 4045 Laser CP for $4,995, which undercuts the about $7,000 price of Apple's new LaserWriter but offers fewer fancy-typefaced features..."
On counters, UPDATE.
Giuliana
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01778 00024 US
Date: Wed, 1 May 85 14:18 PDT
From: anderson.PA
Subject: CSL Candidate Seminar - Steven Keith Feiner, Brown University, Monday, 5/6 at 10:30 in the CSL Common
To: CSL↑, ComputerResearch↑.pa
cc: Spencer.pa, Moody.pa
Reply-To: anderson.PA
Steven Keith Feiner, CSL candidate, will be interviewing on Monday and Tuesday, 5/6 - 5/7. He will give a seminar on Monday at 10:30am in the CSL Common. Please send a message to Kathi <Anderson> if you would be interested in talking to him.
Automating the Creation of Pictorial EXplanations*
Steven Keith Feiner
Department of Computer Science
Brown Univeristy
*This work was supported in part by the Office of Naval Research under Contract No. N00014-78-C-0396.
ABSTRACT:
The APEX [Automated Pictorial EXplanations] project has as its long-term goal
the realtime computer generation of effective pictorial and textual explanations.
Our current research has concentrated on the automated creation of pictures
that depict the performance of physical actions, such as turning or pushing, on
objects.
We are constructing a test-bed system that generates pictures of actions performed by a problem solver. Our system supports rules for determining automatically the objects to be shown in a picture, the style and level of detail with which they should be rendered, the method by which the action itself should be indicated, and the picture's viewing specifications. A picture crystallizes about a small set of objects inferred from the nature of the action being depicted. Additional objects and detail are added when it is determined that they help disambiguate an object from others with which it may be confused.
HOST: Frank Crow
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Date: Wed, 1 May 85 16:34:55 PDT
From: Emma Pease <Emma@SU-CSLI.ARPA>
Subject: Newsletter May 2, No. 27
To: friends@SU-CSLI.ARPA
Tel: 497-3479
C S L I N E W S L E T T E R
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May 2, 1985 Stanford Vol. 2, No. 27
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A weekly publication of The Center for the Study of Language and
Information, Ventura Hall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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CSLI ACTIVITIES FOR *THIS* THURSDAY, May 2, 1985
12 noon TINLunch
Ventura Hall ``Categorizing the Senses of `Take' ''
Conference Room by Peter Norvig
Discussion led by Douglas Edwards
2:15 p.m. CSLI Seminar
Redwood Hall ``Property Theory and Second-Order Logic''
Room G-19 Chris Menzel, CSLI
3:30 p.m. Tea
Ventura Hall
4:15 p.m. CSLI Colloquium
Redwood Hall ``A Formal Theory of Innate Linguistic Knowledge''
Room G-19 Janet Fodor, University of Connecticut
Originally scheduled for April 11
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CSLI ACTIVITIES FOR *NEXT* THURSDAY, May 9, 1985
12 noon TINLunch
Ventura Hall ``Scenes and Events''
Conference Room by Steven Neale, Dept. of Linguistics, Stanford
(Abstract on page 2)
2:15 p.m. CSLI Seminar
Redwood Hall ``Approaches to Generalized Quantifiers in
Room G-19 Heim/Kamp Semantics''
Mats Rooth, CSLI
(Abstract on page 2)
3:30 p.m. Tea
Ventura Hall
4:15 p.m. CSLI Colloquium
Redwood Hall ``Reduced Forms of Comparative Clauses''
Room G-19 James D. McCawley, University of Chicago
(Abstract on page 3)
Page 2 CSLI Newsletter May 2, 1985
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ABSTRACT OF NEXT WEEK'S TINLUNCH
``Scenes and Events''
In his paper ``The Logic of Perceptual Reports", Jim Higginbotham
presents an alternative to Situation Semantics' treatment of the
semantics of naked-infinitive perceptual reports such as ``John saw
Mary wink''. Drawing on an idea of Davidson's, Higginbotham attempts
to make explicit the implicit quantification over events in
NI-perceptual reports by augmenting the valency of certain verbs with
an extra quantifiable place. In this way, he purports to capture
Barwise's semantic generalizations purely formally at a level of
linguistic representation intimately related to LF in
Government-Binding theory.
In ``Scenes and Events'' Stephen Neale critically evaluates
Higginbotham's proposal, concluding that it fails on both semantic and
syntactic grounds: (i) it neither gives an adequate account of the
semantic facts it was meant to account for nor meshes with the sorts
of syntactic considerations which are supposed to motivate it, (ii) it
fails to confront problems which must be encountered by any purely
formal account of certain classes of semantic facts, and (iii) it
admits of no simple incorporation into the GB framework within which
Higginbotham wishes to embed it.
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ABSTRACT OF NEXT WEEK'S SEMINAR
``Approaches to Generalized Quantifiers in Heim/Kamp Semantics''
The original versions of Heim's file change semantics and Kamp's
discourse representation theory treated the quantificational
determiners ``every'' and ``no''. It has been pointed out that
extensions to other quantifiers are not immediate. One problem is
that the variable corresponding to the head of a quantified NP and the
variables corresponding to indefinites in the NP are given equal
status, although ``many a man who owns a donkey beats it'' and ``many
a donkey which is owned by a man is beaten by him'' appear to have
different truth conditions. Recently, generalized quantifier
treatments for DR theory have been proposed by Klein and others. I
will show how Barwise's parameterized set quantifiers can be
considered a theory of generalized quantifiers for file change
semantics, and consider extensions to plurals. --Mats Rooth
Page 3 CSLI Newsletter May 2, 1985
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ABSTRACT OF NEXT WEEK'S COLLOQUIUM
``Reduced Forms of Comparative Clauses''
Russell in 1905 observed that ``than''-clauses within a subordinate
clause can be ambiguous with regard to scope, e.g., (1) is ambiguous
with regard to whether the clause introduced by ``than'' is
semantically part of the complement of ``think.'' However, not all
reduced forms of ``than''-clauses exhibit this ambiguity; i.e., for
example, it is absent from the fully reduced ``than''-clause of (2).
(1) I thought your yacht was longer than it is.
(2) I thought your yacht was longer than her yacht.
If the clause introduced by ``than'' or ``as'' is treated as a
definite description (the x such that your yacht is x much long) and
underlying structures are assumed in which quantified expressions
(including definite descriptions) are sisters of the Ss that serve as
their scopes, the difference in possible interpretations of the
different reduced ``than''-clauses follows from the typology of
deletion transformations that distinguishes pronominal deletions,
which are subject only to the general constraints on where pronouns
can occur in relation to their antecedents, from REDUCTIONS, which
delete all but one constituent of an item and are subject to a
locality condition.
The resulting analysis of fully reduced ``than''-clauses, as in
(2), reveals them in fact to be ambiguous, but in a different way from
(1), and, in conjunction with an analysis in which tenses and
auxiliary verbs are external to their host Ss in underlying structure,
accounts for the 3-way ambiguity of (3).
(3) John has eaten more pizza than Bill.
--James McCawley
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ABSTRACT OF AREA NL-1 MEETING
``New Aspects of Aspect: A Look at Mandarin Chinese''
Carlota S. Smith, University of Texas
Friday, May 10, 2:30 pm, Ventura Hall Conference Room
A study of the aspectual system of Mandarin Chinese tests current
approaches to aspect: the system is considerably more complex than
that of familiar Indo-European languages, with several perfectives and
two imperfectives. Certain features of Chinese are particularly
interesting. One perfective involves an interval that spans beyond
the final endpoint of the situation talked about; it requires a
viewpoint component of aspect separate from situation type. Another
perfective, with reduplication, presents a particular situation type.
It can be accounted for with an aspect-changing lexical rule and
suggests the notion of marked, language-specific situation types. The
imperfectives differentiate the internal structure of statives and
non-statives. Finally, the Aristotelian situation types are realized
in Chinese within the general pattern of the language. Some verbs are
subtly different from their English counterparts, realizing different
situation types in each language. Thus, ``die'' is an Accomplishment
in English and an Achievement in Chinese. (No interpretation of this
point is offered.)
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