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;;; Wed Aug 31 13:37:45 1994 by AI Repository  ;;; readme.txt -- 21974 bytes ************************************************************************** *** PLEASE READ THIS FILE BEFORE RETRIEVING FILES FROM THE REPOSITORY. *** ************************************************************************** Welcome to the CMU Artificial Intelligence Repository. This file contains important information concerning the repository and conditions on use of the repository. By retrieving files from the repository, you signify your agreement to these conditions. If you have not already read the file named 0.doc in this directory, you should read it before this one. *** [0] Table of Contents This file is divided into the following sections: [1] Introduction [2] Conditions on Use of the AI Repository [3] Retrieving Files by FTP and AFS [4] Accessing the Repository by World Wide Web (WWW) [5] Structure of the Repository [6] Bug Reports [7] Mailing List [8] Contributing Files to the Repository [9] CD-ROM [10] Miscellaneous *** [1] Introduction The Artificial Intelligence Repository was established by Mark Kantrowitz in 1993 to collect files, programs and publications of interest to Artificial Intelligence researchers, educators, and students. It is an outgrowth of the Lisp Utilities Repository established by Mark in 1990 and his work on the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) postings for the AI, Lisp, Scheme, and Prolog newsgroups. The Lisp Utilities Repository has been merged into the AI Repository. We'd like to thank Rich Morin of Prime Time Freeware and Raj Reddy of Carnegie Mellon University for their enthusiastic support of this project. The AI Repository is accessible by anonymous FTP and AFS without charge (see [3]). A subset of the contents of the repository is published by Prime Time Freeware as an inexpensive mixed-media (Book/CD-ROM) publication (see [9]). The repository contains \- AI programming language implementations, including Lisp, Prolog, Scheme, and Smalltalk \- Software in all areas of AI, including (but not limited to) AI Agent Architectures Machine Discovery Analogical Reasoning Machine Learning Artificial Life Medical Reasoning Blackboard Architectures Natural Language Generation Case Based Reasoning Natural Language Understanding Cellular Automata Neural Networks Classical AI Programs Parsing Constraint Processing Planning Corpora and Lexica Probabilistic Reasoning Defeasible Reasoning Qualitative Reasoning Distributed AI Robotics Expert Systems Search Fuzzy Logic Speech Synthesis Game Playing Speech Understanding Genetic Algorithms Temporal Reasoning Genetic Programming Theorem Proving ICOT Free Software Truth Maintenance Knowledge Representation Vision Legal Reasoning \- Announcements of current conferences, courses, talks, and workshops, including calls for papers. (Under construction.) \- Technical reports, abstracts, bibliographies, theses, books, book reviews, survey articles, and frequently asked questions (FAQ) postings. (Under construction.) \- Archives of mailing lists and newsgroups. (Under construction.) *** [2] Conditions on Use of the AI Repository In case it be determined by a court of competent jurisdiction that any provision herein contained is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, such determination shall solely affect such provision and shall not affect or impair the remaining provisions of this document. 1\. LACK OF WARRANTY. This software is made available "AS IS" and is distributed without warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. No warranty is made about the software or its performance. Carnegie Mellon University and the repository maintainer(s) do not accept any responsibility to anyone for the consequences of using materials from the repository or for whether such materials serve any particular purpose or work at all. In no event will Carnegie Mellon University or the repository maintainer(s) be liable to you for damages, including lost profits, lost monies, lost revenue, o
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			;;; Wed Aug 31 13:37:45 1994 by AI Repository ;;; readme.txt -- 21974 bytes ************************************************************************ * PLEASE READ THIS FILE BEFORE RETRIEVING FILES FROM THE REPOSITORY. * ********************************************************************** Welcome to the CMU Artificial Intelligence Repository. This file contains important information concerning the repository and conditions on use of the repository. By retrieving files from the repository, you signify your agreement to these conditions. If you have not already read the file named 0.doc in this directory, you should read it before this one. * [0] Table of Contents This file is divided into the following sections: [1] Introduction [2] Conditions on Use of the AI Repository [3] Retrieving Files by FTP and AFS [4] Accessing the Repository by World Wide Web (WWW) [5] Structure of the Repository [6] Bug Reports [7] Mailing List [8] Contributing Files to the Repository [9] CD-ROM [10] Miscellaneous * [1] Introduction The Artificial Intelligence Repository was established by Mark Kantrowitz in 1993 to collect files, programs and publications of interest to Artificial Intelligence researchers, educators, and students. It is an outgrowth of the Lisp Utilities Repository established by Mark in 1990 and his work on the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) postings for the AI, Lisp, Scheme, and Prolog newsgroups. The Lisp Utilities Repository has been merged into the AI Repository. We'd like to thank Rich Morin of Prime Time Freeware and Raj Reddy of Carnegie Mellon University for their enthusiastic support of this project. The AI Repository is accessible by anonymous FTP and AFS without charge (see [3]). A subset of the contents of the repository is published by Prime Time Freeware as an inexpensive mixed-media (Book/CD-ROM) publication (see [9]). The repository contains \- AI programming language implementations, including Lisp, Prolog, Scheme, and Smalltalk \- Software in all areas of AI, including (but not limited to) AI Agent Architectures Machine Discovery Analogical Reasoning Machine Learning Artificial Life Medical Reasoning Blackboard Architectures Natural Language Generation Case Based Reasoning Natural Language Understanding Cellular Automata Neural Networks Classical AI Programs Parsing Constraint Processing Planning Corpora and Lexica Probabilistic Reasoning Defeasible Reasoning Qualitative Reasoning Distributed AI Robotics Expert Systems Search Fuzzy Logic Speech Synthesis Game Playing Speech Understanding Genetic Algorithms Temporal Reasoning Genetic Programming Theorem Proving ICOT Free Software Truth Maintenance Knowledge Representation Vision Legal Reasoning \- Announcements of current conferences, courses, talks, and workshops, including calls for papers. (Under construction.) \- Technical reports, abstracts, bibliographies, theses, books, book reviews, survey articles, and frequently asked questions (FAQ) postings. (Under construction.) \- Archives of mailing lists and newsgroups. (Under construction.) * [2] Conditions on Use of the AI Repository In case it be determined by a court of competent jurisdiction that any provision herein contained is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, such determination shall solely affect such provision and shall not affect or impair the remaining provisions of this document. 1\. LACK OF WARRANTY. This software is made available "AS IS" and is distributed without warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. No warranty is made about the software or its performance. Carnegie Mellon University and the repository maintainer(s) do not accept any responsibility to anyone for the consequences of using materials from the repository or for whether such materials serve any particular purpose or work at all. In no event will Carnegie Mellon University or the repository maintainer(s) be liable to you for damages, including lost profits, lost monies, lost revenue, o