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| 650.1 | IRLnet Newsletter 8889-11b | CEILI::DARCY | | Thu Oct 12 1989 11:30 | 127 |
| From: DECWRL::"@PSUVM.PSU.EDU:[email protected]" 29-SEP-1989 21:01:54.94
To: "George Darcy, DEC, BXB1-1/F11, Boxborough." <CEILI::DARCY>
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Contents:
1. Funding Opportunities: JPL
2. Research Directory.
The last 'newsletter' got held up at the listserver, I sent it again a week
later, and then the first version went out shortly thereafter. Hence, a
more-or-less identical version was received in two copies by those
subscribed to the IRL-NET list.
(Transmitted Sept. 29, 1989. F. Murtagh.
Email: [email protected],
esomc1::fionn.span,
[email protected])
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****************** Funding Opportunities: JPL ***************************
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Funding opportunities through the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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(Note: effectively this information will be mostly of interest to academics
in the US, although in principle there are no strict location
restrictions that I am aware of.)
Summary:
Every 6 months, JPL and Caltech put out a call for proposals,
primarily to ``provide relatively short term seed money to start new
and innovative endeavours." The goal is to support cooperative research
(between JPL staff and university researchers)
on topics and in areas related to the interests of JPL (note: JPL's
interests are very broad - roughly 6,000 people work at the lab. on
a wide variety of topics). These 2 funds are known as the President's
Fund (PF) and the Director's Discretionary Fund (DDF). The PF call for
proposals goes out around November, and awards are made the following
May or so. The DDF is about 6 months later, each year. The PF is
administered by Caltech (JPL is actually a Caltech Lab: the university
manages the lab.) - however this does not imply that there is any bias towards
Caltech faculty (in fact, interaction with non-Caltech faculty is highly
encouraged). The DDF is administered by JPL. Information on each of
these funds can be obtained by writing to, or calling:
Dr. Moustafa T. Chahine phone: (818) 354 6057
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mail-Code: 180-904
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA 91109, USA.
As Laboratory Chief Technologist, he can put academics in touch with
specific JPL staff, help with exploratory contacts in certain areas of
interest, etc.
The bad News:
Awards are usually relatively small: typically of the
order of $50k, but last year's PF's were down to $20-30k. Also,
competition is stiff: funding is open to all the sciences and engineering,
so that there tends to be a vast spectrum of different proposals put
forward. Most proposals get some preliminary screening within the technical
divisions at JPL (every proposal basically has at least a JPL staff
member plus a university person), but even so, there are of the order of
7 times as many proposals submitted as are funded.
The good News:
For many people at universities, this is a very good way
to establish some contacts at JPL, and whether or not the initial proposal
is funded, very often other projects and proposals of a larger scale may
be suggested. Sometimes a proposal will be ``picked-up" prior to submittal
for regular NASA project funding. Its also worth noting that these proposals
are quite short (paper-wise) and don't take very long to put together.
Feel free to contact me directly if you want more information
(but I recommend you contact Moustafa Chahine also), I
have some knowledge of our activities in the general areas of communications,
signal processing, image processing, control theory, neural networks,
information theory and statistics, and artificial intelligence.
Padhraic Smyth
Communication Systems Research
JPL 238-420
Pasadena, CA 91109, USA.
email: [email protected]
tel: (818) 354 3768
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************************ Research Directory *****************************
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John O'Loughlin
Dept. Geography, U. of Colorado, Campus Box 260, Boulder, CO. 80309.
[email protected]
Political Geography, International Relations, Neutrality
International Migration, Voting Behavior, European Community
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| 650.2 | IRLnet Newsletter 8889-11 | CEILI::DARCY | | Thu Oct 12 1989 11:31 | 163 |
| From: DECWRL::"@PSUVM.PSU.EDU:[email protected]" 26-SEP-1989 21:13:06.73
To: "George Darcy, DEC, BXB1-1/F11, Boxborough." <CEILI::DARCY>
CC:
Subj: IRLnet n/l, Sept. 1989.
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Contents:
1. Conference Report: AICS'89.
2. UCD Computer Centre Developments.
3. Research Directory.
(Transmitted 18 Sept. 1989; retry 25 Sept. 1989.
F. Murtagh, [email protected].)
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****************** Conference Report: AICS'89 ***************************
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Conference Report on the Second Irish Conference on Artificial
Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS'89), Dublin City
University, 14-15 September, 1989.
This conference had 20 papers presented, including a keynote
address, and what made it distinctive was the fact that the
entire spectrum of AI and AI-related topics were regarded as
within the scope of the conference's interests. The first session
on image processing contained 2 papers on heuristic methods for
handling 2 dimensional jig-saws and on handling 3 dimensional
images of human face recognition. The papers in the session on
human-computer interaction included an expert system for teaching
plans, an entertaining talk by Noel Sheehy from Univ. Leeds on
using computers to recognise non-verbal behaviour in end-users
(shifting from side-to-side on a seat, hitting the keystrokes
harder/softer, even getting headaches!) and on building user
models for interacting with operating systems.
The third session on planning consisted of a keynote paper from
Dr Nigel Shadbolt of U. Notts. which was quite high level,
followed by a more detailed and implementation-oriented paper by
Paul Morris from IntelliCorp. The fact that planning merited a
session on its own is testimony to the importance of this area
and of topics like temporal logic, within AI. The fourth session
on applications of expert systems was the inevitable expert
systems session.
One of the most interesting sessions was the session on learning
where J Kinsella of U.Lim. presented his research on training
methods from neural networks, being implemented on transputers
(this was the ubiquitous neural network paper), Barry McMullin
from DCU described a Darwinian approach to learning, and
Christopher Thornton of D.A.I. Edinburgh talked about higher
levels of learning. In the next session on Robotics/Speech
Rosanna Heise from Univ. Calgary described an ongoing project
where robots learn their programming instructions from examples
and E Ambikairajah from Athlone R.T.C. outlined an ongoing speech
recognition project which has started with by modelling the
physiological aspects of the human ear.
In the session on natural language processing and semantics there
were two papers on using commercial machine-readable dictionaries
as a source of automatically deriving semantics. Allan Ramsey of
UCD also presented a paper on how to handle wh-clauses in parsing
language. The final session on expert systems theory included a
paper by J. Guan et al. from UU Jordanstown which described a
computationally-efficient method for implementing Yen's extended
Dempster-Shafer theory for handling uncertainties in expert
systems, and H. Dai et al presented the final paper on issues of
real-time expert systems.
In addition to the presented papers two of the sponsors, Expert
Edge and Peregrine exhibited their recently released products,
there was a demonstration of a machine translation system
(English to French/German) and a book display/exhibition. There
were conference pre-prints available to delegates and the
proceedings proper will be published by Springer-Verlag as part
of the British Computer Society Workshop Series. The next AICS
conference in 1990 will be hosted by the University of Ulster at
Jordanstown. A call for papers will appear in this digest, or for
further information contact Dr Mike McTear, Informatics,
University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Newtownabbey.
Alan F Smeaton
September 1989.
[Note: as I was the Chairman of the program committee and
organiser of the conference, my views are biased.]
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****************** UCD Computer Centre Developments *********************
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From Paul mc Kevitt ([email protected]):
=====================================
In Irish Independent recently: "UCD in IRL3.5 m EC deal".
UCD has beaten off competition from other European countries to win an
IRL3.5 million contract from the EC research and development programme.
Under the deal, U.C.D. will continue to provide "electronic mail" and
computer conferencing services to researcher and other organisations.
The service started on a pilot basis in 1983, serving just a few hundred
users, but these have grown to 1,500 users in 23 countries, spread across
about 20 different research and development projects.
Dr. Dennis Jennings, director of the UCD Computer Centre, said yesterday
only 70 of the 1,500 users are based in Ireland, so the service means
revenue from exports.
Already, 20 staff are employed in the service at the U.C.D. and with the
new contract, it is planned to open an office in Brussels.
College President, Dr. Patrick Masterson, said a wholly-owned subsidiary
compnay -- U.C.D. Computing Ltd. -- was being set up to develop and exploit
the expertise gained to date. This was one of the major ways in which
U.C.D. would increase its contribution to the development of high
technology industry in Ireland, he added.
The chairman of the new company is Joe MacHale, a former secretary and
bursar of the college.
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************************ Research Directory *****************************
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Niall Graham
[email protected]
Computing Research Lab. NMSU, P.O. BOX 4028, Las Cruces, NM 88003-4028
Graph Theory.
Gerard Toal
[email protected]
Department of Geography, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061.
U.S. foreign policy, geopolitics, Political Geography, global political
economy and literary criticism.
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| 650.3 | IRLnet Newsletter 16/10/89 | CEILI::DARCY | | Thu Oct 19 1989 12:18 | 60 |
| From: DECWRL::"@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU:[email protected]" 18-OCT-1989 23:21:34.98
To: "George Darcy, DEC, BXB1-1/F11, Boxborough." <CEILI::DARCY>
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The following is extracted from the I.T. 16/10/89:
Title: Serving Graduates
For the estimated 40000 young Irish graduates already
working abroad ... a study by the Bolton Trust, an entrepreneurial
development organisation, has shown that 66% .... expressed a willingness
to return to Ireland to take up employment. However only 10% actually
achieve such an aim.
Tackling the problems of graduate repatriation is a new project
operating from the Powerhouse Enterprise Cluster in Dublin's docklands.
Donna O Connor ... is project manager of the 'high skills pool'.
... with the aid of R&D Enterprises, a market research and development
outfit located in the Powerhouse Cluster, the project identified ways
of establishing contact with graduates overseas. A comprehensive database
of some 7000 Irish graduates working abroad is currently being
compiled, containing information concerning present job details and
relevant experience. An initial print run of 5000 brochures outlining
the aims of the project are to be circulated worldwide.
For those subscribing to the scheme, a quarterly magazine entitled
"Embark" is being published to update on developments in the job market
and entrepreneurial opportunities.
"The basic aim of the project is to set up the first structured
network of Irish graduates abroad" says O Connor. The network will
operate through a group of liaison officers working in the major centres
now benefitting from the expertise of skilled Irish graduates.
<It's time IRLnet established its precedence!>
(From Paddy McCarthy, [email protected].)
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| 650.4 | IRLnet 7-NOV-1989 | CEILI::DARCY | | Thu Nov 09 1989 10:59 | 61 |
| From: DECWRL::"@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU:[email protected]" 7-NOV-1989 19:07:41.76
To: "George Darcy, DEC, BXB1-1/F11,
Boxborough" <CEILI::DARCY>
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Does anyone have any information on programs associated with the Summer
Institute of Linguistics, described below? (The following message was sent
out recently on the GAELIC-L list, and originally was posted on the HUMANIST
list.)
Caoimhin O Donnaile ([email protected])
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Date: Thu, 2 Nov 89 09:09:21 GMT
From: [email protected]
Subject: summer institute of linguistics
Have many other humanists discovered the veritable goldmine of
'humanistic' computing, sales and help in the Summer Institute of
Linguistics? they are based in Texas and their address is:
s.i.l. inc.
7500 west camp wisdom road
dallas 75236
texas
they also have a sales/software library in northern carolina:
international computer services
box 248
waxhaw
nc 28173
The expertise that sil have built up over several years of linguistic
computing is, i think, quite unique.
Their main area of concern is in minority language groups, and to serve
that purpose they have written a whole 'suite' of software (admittedly
not quite as user friendly as a mac!) known as dts (direct translation
support). this is available - including documentation - for around $30
from the waxhaw address. a journal is published eight times a year
called notes on computing and costs $12 + postage. this journal deals
with anything from unix problems to fungus growing on discs (a lot of
sil staff work in 'computer hostile environments, as you may imagine'. i
have found sil, and their sister organisation wycliffe bible translators
very helpful, but then i would as my main research interests lie in
burkina faso.
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| 650.5 | IRLnet Results and Prospects | CEILI::DARCY | | Wed Nov 22 1989 11:36 | 107 |
| From: DECWRL::"@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU:[email protected]" 26-OCT-1989 13:40:46.57
To: "George Darcy, DEC, BXB1-1/F11, Boxborough" <CEILI::DARCY>
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IRLnet - Results and Prospects
------------------------------
Since I have been coordinating IRLnet for one year, now, I think this is
a good opportunity to look at how it is developing and to suggest a few
changes.
Putting together a monthly 'newsletter', as was done in the past 12
months, is fairly time consuming (and this was quickly realised by a few
people I approached with a view towards taking over IRLnet!). More
importantly, a mean-time-to-distribution of two weeks can have a damping
effect. Tail-end items in a digest of items in such a 'newsletter' can also
suffer. This is not to say that such a 'newsletter' is inappropriate for
a network, - regularity of network traffic was very necessary to expand
IRLnet and to have it continually growing.
IRLnet has now become firmly established around the IRL-NET list, handled
by the listserver at Earn/Binet node IRLEARN. I am grateful to those in
the Computer Centre, UCD, who helped here, and who allow IRLnet traffic to
be very conveniently handled in this way. From time to time messages do not
get through: from the 'problem reports' which I receive from the listserver,
this may be due to (temporary) alterations at some gateway or other. Send
me a message if you think that something is wrong with access to your address.
To make IRLnet more instantaneous, it was recently made possible for anyone
(and not just me) to distribute messages. I would like to encourage both
items of general interest (conference announcements, positions vacant, news
of general interest from Irish research institutes and universities, likewise
regarding firms, news regarding research policy in Ireland or elsewhere, etc.),
and also discussion of general interest (which really encompasses anything
relating to research, with a fairly broad definition of the latter). I would
prefer if you would send material directly for distribution, and take me out
of the loop as least as far as this is concerned.
Please also send out requests for information, or comments, directly on
IRLnet. Whether one should reply privately, or to the net, is something that
one can be pragmatic about.
For reference, a few aspects relating to access to IRLnet are summarized
below. This includes how to send a message to everyone on IRLnet.
To see who is subscribed/check up on a name:
--------------------------------------------
Send the one-line message:
REV IRL-NET
to LISTSERV@IRLEARN on Earn/Bitnet, from any of the usual wide-area networks.
Your return address will be automatically determined, and you will receive
a file with IRLnet subscribers' names.
To subscribe oneself:
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Send the one-line message:
ADD IRL-NET [email protected] Name/Affiliation
to LISTSERV@IRLEARN on Earn/Bitnet. Use a standard format for 'name@node.
network' (see other such network names from the output received from the
REView command mentioned above). 'Name/affiliation' is in free text.
To send a message to everyone on IRLnet:
----------------------------------------
Send your message to IRL-NET@IRLEARN on Earn/Bitnet. Note that anything
of an administrative nature, relevant to IRLnet, requires a message to
LISTSERV@IRLEARN. On the other hand, anything sent to IRL-NET@IRLEARN
will go out to every 'subscriber'.
Finally:
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To send a message to me, the following accounts can be used:
Earn/Bitnet: FIONN@DGAESO51
FIM@DGAIPP1S
Internet: [email protected]
Span: ESOMC1::FIONN
SCIVAX::MURTAGH
Fionn Murtagh, Oct. 26, 1989.
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| 650.6 | 4 Jan 1990 | CEILI::DARCY | | Mon Jan 08 1990 12:20 | 77 |
| From: DECWRL::"@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU:[email protected]" 4-JAN-1990 15:09:09.29
To: "George Darcy, DEC, BXB1-1/F11,
Boxboroug" <CEILI::DARCY>
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Subj: IRLnet
Contents:
1. Graduate Study in Statistics at Seattle (Finbarr O'Sullivan).
2. IRLnet problems.
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Graduate Study in Statistics at Seattle
Know of someone who might be interested in doing graduate work in
Biostatistics or Statistics? The University of Washington, Seattle
is a good place to come to. The combined group has strengths in several
areas of applied and theoretical statistics. The local geography is
spectacular. There is a high level of support from teaching and research
assistantships. Irish applicants tend to be exceptionally well qualified
for graduate education in the US. Interested students should send e-mail to
Professor Peter Guttorp [[email protected]]
Staistics Dept.
or
Professor Polly Feigl [[email protected]]
Biostatistics Dept.
I have some familiarity with the current research programmes in
Computational Statistics and Radiology. I'd be happy to provide
more information on these to interested students. Send e-mail
to me at [email protected].
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From Finbarr O'Sullivan ([email protected]):
Is there any possibility of having the reply on the Listserver work so that
say the "R" command would reply to an individual and "RR" would reply to
everyone on Irlnet. I wasn't put out by the recent spate of weird messages.
From Kevin Ryan ([email protected]):
I don't see why Brendan Lynch's idea can not work. Is there some technical
reason? Otherwise you'll be overloaded as the thing grows.
From F. Murtagh:
As far as I am aware, the listserver distribution mechanism only allows
"reply to sender" or "reply to list". The latter has always been in
effect. The "reply to" keyword is one of the keywords in the list header,
and a limited set of options are possible with such keywords.
If the situation were changed to allow replies to sender, I am sure that
the minimal amount of extra work required to send a message to the list,
as a whole, would do no harm. I am willing to try this, but clearly
there would be no mechanism to prevent silly messages sent to the list,
messages inadvertently sent to the list instead of the listserver, etc.
This really relates to the role envisaged for IRLnet. Let me have your
opinions on the matter. If it is really desired to have open distribution
of messages, coupled with an altered "send to" keyword, then this can be
tried.
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