From walter Wed Sep 14 14:10:10 1983 To: bboard@mc Subject: Return of GSL Cc: walter Reports of the death of the Graduate Student Lunch have been greatly exaggerated. Friday, September 16th, at High Noon in the AI Lab Playroom: GSL Returns! To: bboard@mc Subject: Graduate Student Lunch Cc: bboard.mail The Graduate Student Lunch returns AGAIN! Same time (Friday at noon)... Same place (8th Floor Playroom)... Different selfless volunteer (Phil Agre) !!! ****************************************************************** From walter Thu Oct 6 12:24:13 1983 To: bboard@mc Subject: GSL This Week? Cc: bboard.mail Yes! (Noon, 8th Floor, etc...) ******************************************************************* From walter Thu Mar 1 10:00:31 1984 To: *mac@mc Subject: GRADUATE STUDENT LUNCH Cc: bboard.mail Computer Aided Conceptual Art (CACA) Eternally Evolving Seminar Series presents YOKO: A Random Haiku Generator Interns gobble oblist hash | We will be discussing YOKO and the Cluster at operations | related issues of computer modeling Hidden rep: convert! | of artists, modeling computer artists, | computer artists' models, computer Chip resolve to bits | models of artists' models of computers, Bus cycle inference engine | artist's cognitive models of computers, Exposing grey codes | computers' cognitive models of artists | and models, models' models of models, Take-grant tinker bucks | artists' models of computer artists, Pass oblist message package | modelling of computer artists' cognitive Federal express | models and artist's models of cognition. Hosts: Claudia Smith and Crisse Ciro REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED ******************************************************************** Computer Aided Conceptual Art Evolving Seminar Series presents SMALLTALK-52 AND THE WHEELER SEND Recently discovered documents reveal that J.M. Wheeler designed the first version of Smalltalk in 1952. It was intended to run on the University of Cambridge's EDSAC Computer. The initial implementation, however, required the entire 512-word memory and was deemed infeasible. Wheeler, who is credited with the invention of bootstrap code, subroutine calls, assemblers, linkers, loaders, and all-night hacking, can now be properly credited with inventing message passing, object oriented programming, window systems, and impractical languages. This fascinating historical discussion will be hosted by Steve Berlin and will be preceded by Lunch. Next week: Lady Lovelace's Encryption Algorithm ******************************************************************** From walter Thu Apr 5 18:41:57 1984 To: *mac@mc Subject: Computers and Incomprehensibility Cc: gsl.mail ANNALS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE SEMINAR SERIES Presents LADY LOVELACE'S ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM Wkh iluvw frpsxwhu surjudpphu zdv d qlqhwhhqwk0fhqwxuqreohzrpdq/ Odg| Dxjxvwd Dgd Oryhodfh/ gdxjkwhu ri wkh srhw Orug E|urq. Dv d whhqdjhu/ Dxjxvwd glvsod|hg dvwrqlvklqj surzhvv lq pdwkhpdwlfv. Zkhq vkh zdv hljkwhhq dxjxvwd iluvw vdz Fkduohv Edeedjh*v dqdo|wlfdo hqjlqh/ d fdofxodwlqj pdfklqh wkdw zdv wkh iruhuxqqhu ri wkh prghuq frpsxwhu. Lq hljkwhhq iruw|0wzr/ vkh wudqvodwhg d sdshu rq wkh hqjlqh iurp Iuhqfk wr Hqjolvk/ dgglqj khu rzq yroxplqrxv qrwhv. Lq vxevhtxhqw zulwlqjv vkh ghvfulehg wkh %orrs% dqg %vxeurxwlqh% frqfhswv. ********************************************************************* From Zvona@MIT-OZ Fri Apr 20 09:55:01 1984 Received: from mit-oz by mit-htvax with CHAOS; 20 Apr 1984 09:54:26-EST Received: from MIT-MORRISON by MIT-OZ via Chaosnet; 20 Apr 84 09:54-EST Date: Friday, 20 April 1984, 09:55-EST From: David Chapman To: walter at MIT-OZ The first computer programmer was a nineteenth-centurnoblewoman, Lady Augusta Ada Lovelace, daughter of the poet Lord Byron. As a teenager, Augusta displayed astonishing prowess in mathematics. When she was eighteen augusta first saw Charles Babbage's analytical engine, a calculating machine that was the forerunner of the modern computer. In eighteen forty-two, she translated a paper on the engine from French to English, adding her own voluminous notes. In subsequent writings she described the "loop" and "subroutine" concepts. Hey, I really like these hack GSL announcements. *************************************************************************** From MONTALVO%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA Thu Apr 26 17:45:03 1984 Received: from mit-oz by mit-htvax with CHAOS; 26 Apr 1984 17:42:11-EST Received: from MIT-MC by MIT-OZ via Chaosnet; 26 Apr 84 17:41-EST Date: Thu 26 Apr 84 17:32:46-EST From: MONTALVO%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA Subject: Video tape from Brown University To: *bboard%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA cc: MONTALVO%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA I can say something about the video tape that STRAZ is showing on Mon. from Brown University. I went to the presentation given here by Andy Van Dam. He is a well known figure in computer graphics and he together with Jim Foley from GW Univ. have written the only (correct me if I'm wrong) book on interactive computer graphics and one of the very few textbooks on computer graphics. The talk was on the illustration of hard, computer science concepts using computer graphics, specifically animation graphics. It was also on how they actually used this system to teach comp. sci. at Brown. I highly recommend the talk. If you want to know more you can ask me. Fanya ------- From root Thu Apr 26 19:40:03 1984 Received: from mit-oz by mit-htvax with CHAOS; 26 Apr 1984 19:38:17-EST Received: from MIT-MC by MIT-OZ via Chaosnet; 26 Apr 84 19:38-EST ReSent-date: Thu 26 Apr 84 19:37:44-EST ReSent-From: Bernard M. Gunther ReSent-To: *bboard@MIT-MC OVERCROWDING: THE BLACK HOLE OF COURSE VI Forum for all Course VI students including newly declared froshlings. Featuring a panel of Course VI faculty and administrators. Date: May 3rd, 1984 Time: 7:30 PM Place: 34-101 Bring flames, beefs, tar, and feathers: AUDIENCE DISCUSSION WILL FOLLOW. From walter@mit-htvax Thu Apr 26 20:30:06 1984 Received: from mit-oz by mit-htvax with CHAOS; 26 Apr 1984 20:28:25-EST Received: from MIT-MC by MIT-OZ via Chaosnet; 26 Apr 84 20:27-EST Date: 26 Apr 1984 20:25:24-EST From: walter at mit-htvax To: montalvo@oz Cc: *mac@mc Fanya, I can say something about the GSL that TAR and ELISHA are doing on Friday (see message below). I went to a GSL last week. Tom and Elisha are well known figures in LCS and are are doing the only (correct me if I'm wrong) GSL this week. I highly recommend the food. If you want to know more you can copy HTVAX:/projects/gsl.txt . Walter ---------- From walter@mit-htvax Thu Apr 19 12:40:02 1984 Received: from mit-oz by mit-htvax with CHAOS; 25 Apr 1984 12:37:11-EST Received: from MIT-MC by MIT-OZ via Chaosnet; 25 Apr 84 12:36-EST Date: 25 Apr 1984 12:34:36-EST From: walter at mit-htvax To: *mac@mc Subject: GSL OVEREATING: THE BLACK HOLE OF GRADUATE COURSE VI Forum for all Course VI Area II graduate students. Featuring a flock of vultures in a feeding frenzy: You have to be there to see it! Date: May 27th, 1984 Time: 12:00 Noon Place: AI Lab Playroom Tom Russ and Elisha Sacks will moderate. ************************************************************************** From walter Thu Mar 22 13:31:25 1984 To: *mac@mc Subject: MIT Playroom Eating Club workshop Cc: gsl.mail The MIT Playroom Eating Club presents SCARFING for beginners and a professional workshop in GLUTTONY Workshop Time Prerequisite Beginning 12:01-12:10 No previous experience (No food either). Professional 11:55-12:01 Beginning workshop or familiarity w/ basic hogging Join us in the AI Lab Playroom (the big room 3 floors directly above the LCS Student Lounge) at 12 noon on Friday, March 23rd for ten minutes of intense pigging out. See you there! This week's trough will be filled by Bonnie Dorr and Dave Braunegg. If you want to volunteer to provide food for this weekly event, please get in touch with Walter in NE43-825 (office) or NE43-825 (home). **************************************************************************** From walter Thu Apr 5 15:39:58 1984 To: *mac@mc Subject: Computer Aided Conceptual Art Cc: gsl.mail Computer Aided Conceptual Art (CACA) Eternally Evolving Seminar Series presents THE STRATEGIC CONSUMING PROPOSAL To meet the challenge of certain critical problems in art, the Computer Aided Conceptual Art Consortium of Advanced Conceptual Artists (CACACACA) is initiating an important new program in Strategic Consuming. By seizing an opportunity to leverage recent advances in artificial ingestion, cooking science, and microelectronics, in particular "GSL" (Gallim-Silicon-Lithium) technology, the Consortium plans to create a new generation of "machine ingestion". This new technology will create unprecedented appetites and promises to greatly increase our national self-consciousness and weight as it emerges in the coming decadence. Hosts: Brian Williams and Dan Carnese Refreshments will, of course, be served. ******************************************************************** From TAR@MIT-MC Thu Apr 26 12:15:02 1984 Received: from mit-mc by mit-htvax with CHAOS; 26 Apr 1984 12:11:10-EST Date: 26 April 1984 12:10-EST From: Thomas A. Russ Subject: GSL To: walter @ MIT-HTVAX cc: ELISHA @ MIT-MC, TAR @ MIT-MC Initially contingency plans have been made, planningwise, but no final decision has been made as to precisely which of the wide variety of action options will in fact be used, if any. Responsible officials deny that any specific options for our involvement or reaction have either been ruled out or adopted, but (and this is not for direct attribution) they appears to be leaning to some form of culinary intervention in line with actions in keeping with past precedent in handling crises of this variety. Tom, Director of the Transportation Bureau of the Ad Hoc Commitee for the Prevention of Post Graduate and Advanced Degree Candidate Mal- and Under-Nutrition. ******************************************************************** From walter Thu Apr 5 18:41:57 1984 To: *mac@mc Subject: Computer Aided Conceptual Art Cc: gsl.mail The date, hour, and location of the Strategic Consuming briefing was inadvertently disincluded from the preceding message on the identical topic. Update follows: The Strategic Consuming Seminar will be initiated at 1200 hours 06-04-84 in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Playroom. *************************************************************************** From WELD%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA Mon Apr 23 12:45:02 1984 Received: from mit-oz by mit-htvax with CHAOS; 23 Apr 1984 12:41:34-EST Received: from MIT-MC by MIT-OZ via Chaosnet; 23 Apr 84 12:40-EST Date: 23 Apr 1984 12:32 EST (Mon) Message-ID: From: "Daniel S. Weld" To: *bboard%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA Subject: AI Revolving Seminar Wednesday 4/25 4:00pm 8th floor playroom The Copycat Project: An Experiment in Nondeterminism and Creative Analogies Doug Hofstadter A micro-world is described, in which many analogies involving strikingly different concepts and levels of subtlety can be made. The question "What differentiates the good ones from the bad ones?" is discussed, and then the problem of how to implement a computational model of the human ability to come up with such analogies (and to have a sense for their quality) is considered. A key part of the proposed system, now under development, is its dependence on statistically emergent properties of stochastically interacting "codelets" (small pieces of ready-to-run code created by the system, and selected at random to run with probability proportional to heuristically assigned "urgencies"). Another key element is a network of linked concepts of varying levels of "semanticity", in which activation spreads and indirectly controls the urgencies of new codelets. There is pressure in the system toward maximizing the degree of "semanticity" or "intensionality" of descriptions of structures, but many such pressures, often conflicting, must interact with one another, and compromises must be made. The shifting of (1) perceived boundaries inside structures, (2) descriptive concepts chosen to apply to structures, and (3) features perceived as "salient" or not, is called "slippage". What can slip, and how, are emergent consequences of the interaction of (1) the temporary ("cytoplasmic") structures involved in the analogy with (2) the permanent ("Platonic") concepts and links in the conceptual proximity network, or "slippability network". The architecture of this system is postulated as a general architecture suitable for dealing not only with fluid analogies, but also with other types of abstract perception and categorization tasks, such as musical perception, scientific theorizing, Bongard problems and others. ************************************************************************** 12:00 NOON 8TH FLOOR PLAYROOM FRIDAY 5/5 GRADUAL STUDENT LUNCH SEMINAR SERIES The G0001 Project: An Experiment in G0002 and Creative G0003 A G0004 is described, in which many G0003 involving strikingly different G0005 and levels of G0006 can be made. The question "What differentiates the good G0003 from the bad G0003?" is discussed, and the problem of how to G0008 a G0009 G0010 of the G0011 G0012 to come up with such G0003 (and to have a sense for their quality) is considered. A key part of the proposed system, now under development, is its dependence on G0013 G0014 G0015 of G0016 interacting "G0017" (selected at random to G0019 with G0020 proportional to G0021 assigned "G0022"). Another key G0023 is a G0024 of linked G0005 of varying levels of "G0025", in which G0026 spreads and G0027 controls the G0028 of new G0017. The shifting of (1) G0033 G0034 inside structures, (2) descriptive G0005 chosen to apply to G0030, and (3) G0043 perceived as "G0031" or not, is called "G0032". What can G0031, and how, are G0014 G0033 of the interaction of (1) the temporary ("G0034") structures involved in the G0003 with (2) the permanent ("G0035") G0005 and links in the G0036 network, or "G0037 network". The G0038 of this system is G0039 as a general G0038 suitable for dealing not only with fluid G0003, but also with other types of G0039 G0040 and G0041 tasks, such as musical G0040, G0041 G0042, Bongard problems and others. Hosts: Harry Voorhees and Dave Siegel **************************************************************** From walter@mit-htvax Thu May 10 16:30:03 1984 Received: from mit-oz by mit-htvax with CHAOS; 10 May 1984 16:29:42-EDT Received: from MIT-MC by MIT-OZ via Chaosnet; 10 May 84 16:23-EDT Date: 10 May 1984 16:06:22-EDT From: walter at mit-htvax To: *mac@mc Subject: Graduate Student Lunch Barring the remote possibility of a volunteer stepping forward from out of the blue who's willing to do GSL on miserably short notice, there will be no graduate student lunch on May 11th. GSL will however return *next* week, for the semester's final feeding frenzy. **************************************************************** Friends: This Friday noon marks the end of GSL's for this academic year. On this occasion I am reminded of the immortal words of the late (great) Jim Morrison: This is the end, my friend It really is Yes, it is the end This is the end My friend No kidding, it really is the end It's the end It is The end -- The Doors It's a Dan Weise GSL, and you know what that means. Calories, Calories, Calories-- Diabetes City, fer sure. Or, in the immortal words of Mac Davis: Sugar Sugar Honey Honey You are my candy cane -- The Archies Bye now. Be good. ************************************************************ From MEYER@MIT-MC Mon Sep 10 15:45:02 1984 Received: from mit-oz by mit-htvax with CHAOS; 10 Sep 1984 15:40:46-EDT Received: from MIT-MC by MIT-OZ via Chaosnet; 10 Sep 84 15:39-EDT Date: 10 September 1984 15:36-EDT From: Albert R. Meyer Subject: Seminar on Types in Programming To: (*MSG *MIT) @ MIT-MC SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT: GENERALIZED TYPES IN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES FIRST MEETING: Friday, Sept. 14, 1984, 3:30-5:00. PLACE: NE43-315, MIT Lab. for Comp. Sci., 545 Tech. Sq., Cambridge. ORGANIZER: A.R. Meyer, Net Address: Meyer@@Mit-MC.Arpa, Phone: 253-6024. A reading seminar about generalized types and type-checking; polymorphism; classes, modules, and inheritance; and related notions appearing in current and proposed programming languages. The slant will be toward identifying the underlying semantical problems raised by the desired programming features. For the first five weeks (during the visit of Prof. Boris Trakhtenbrot, Univ. of Tel Aviv) we will present and discuss the papers below starting with the first two: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Burstall, Rod M., ``Programming with modules as typed functional programming'', PROC. INT'L. CONF. 5TH GENERATION COMPUTING SYSTEMS, Tokyo, to appear. Manuscript from Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Edinburgh, 1984. 2. Burstall, Rod M. and Butler Lampson, ``A Kernel language for abstract data types and modules'', SEMANTICS OF DATA TYPES: PROCEEDINGS, (eds.) Kahn, MacQueen and Plotkin, Springer-Verlag, Lect. Notes in Comp. Sci. 173, 1-50, 1984. 3. MacQueen, David, ``Modules for standard ML'', ACM SYMP. ON LISP AND FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGES, 1984. 4. Mitchell, John C., ``Lambda Calculus Models of Typed Programming Languages'', Ph.D. Thesis, MIT, Dept. of EECS, September, 1984. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Meeting time for the first five weeks is Tue., Fri., 3:30-5:00, and Tue. 3:30-5:00 thereafter. Reading course credit can be arranged. ************************************************************************** From WALTER%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA Tue Sep 11 15:00:02 1984 Received: from mit-oz by mit-htvax with CHAOS; 11 Sep 1984 14:55:31-EDT Received: from MIT-MC by MIT-OZ via Chaosnet; 11 Sep 84 14:54-EDT Date: 11 Sep 1984 14:52 EDT (Tue) Message-ID: From: Walter Hamscher To: *mac@MIT-MC Subject: Seminar on Types in Lunches SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT: GENERALIZED TYPES IN GRADUATE STUDENT LUNCHES FIRST MEETING: Friday, Sept. 14, 1984, 12:00 noon PLACE: MIT AI Lab Playroom, 545 Tech. Sq., Cambridge, MA, USA ORGANIZER: Walter Hamscher, (walter@oz) FIRST WEEK VOLUNTEERS: Bonnie Dorr and Dave Braunegg SUCCEEDING WEEKS VOLUNTEERS: To Be Announced An eating seminar about generalized cold cuts and spread-recognition; gluttonism, leftovers, and indigestion; related notions appearing in current and proposed lunches, such as volunteers, menus, and The Roosevelt Paradox ("There is no such thing as a free lunch") will be discussed. The slant will be toward identifying the underlying digestional problems raised by the desired menu features. For the first five minutes (during the visit of Prof. Gustav Fleischbrot, Univ. of Essen) we will present and discuss the papers below starting with the first two and concluding with the final two: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Burger, Chip N., ``The Nutritional Value of Pixels'', PROC. INT'L. CONF. 5TH GENERATION INGESTION SYSTEMS, Tokyo, to appear. Manuscript from Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Sandwich, 1984. 2. Burger, Chip N. and Gelly Muffin, ``A Kernel language for abstract feta cheese and noodles'', SEMANTICS OF FETA CHEESE: PROCEEDINGS, (eds.) Cream, MacFried and Potstick, Springer-Verlag, Lect. Notes in Comp. Sci. 173, 1-50, 1984. 3. MacDonald, Ronald, ``Noodles for standard ML'', ACM SYMP. ON LINGUICA AND LINGUINI, 1984. 4. Munchem, J. C., ``Lamb, D-Calories, Noodles, and Ripe Fruit'', Ph.D. Thesis, MIT, Dept. of EECS, September, 1984. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Meeting time for the first five minutes is Fri. 12:00-12:05, and Friday 12:00-12:05 thereafter. Aerobics course credit can be arranged.