Public (software) Library
                             Programming Library

  Descriptions and Compilation Copyright 1994 Nelson Ford ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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      See LICENSE.DOC in the PSL_NEWS directory for complete information.


=====Artificial Intelligence

[ALPHANET]
Alphanet (Thinking Software, Inc.; $?) is an AI demonstration of Neural
Networks that teaches your computer to recognize letters and numbers.
Fascinating information about this branch of Artificial Intelligence
research is provided.

[AI_TUTOR]
AI-Tutor (Thinking Software, Inc.; $0) is an introduction to Artificial
Intelligence. It discusses what AI is, all about Neural Networks, about
Expert Systems, and about Natural Language. It also contains a tutorial on
the PC and essential DOS commands.

[AVATAR]
Avatar I (AMC Publishing; $0) is an expert system editor and inference
engine (a "knowledge data base" or "artificial intelligence system" which
can be queried in English). Avatar features an editor that guides you
through creating the knowledge base structure. Although Avatar is in the
programming section, no programming knowledge or experience is required.

[BRAIN12]
The Brain 1.2s is an advanced neural network simulator based on the
backpropagation learning algorithm. It allows you to train the computer to
learn what you want it to learn. Three sample networks are included. (David
Perkovic, reg. fee: $25)

[DEANNA]
DEANNA is a tutorial on neurocomputing and artificial neural networks.
(J.G. Taylor, reg. fee: $0)

[ELMER100]
Elmer 1.0 is a tool for demonstrating expert system techniques, or building
any interactive knowledgebase. An expert system provides information to
people who do not have access to an expert in the particular field. (Joe
Kasser, reg. fee: $45)

[ESIE]
ESIE 2.1 is an Expert System Inference Engine. It lets you create and load
files of information on a subject which it can use in acting as an expert
advisor on the subject. (Lightwave, reg. fee: $145)

[EXPERT]
Expert (Walton, Stephen; $?) is an AI-type program. It allows you to create
a "knowledge base" as easily as you would a spreadsheet template. It is
easy to use.

[EXTOL]
Extol (Taylor, Michael C.; $25) is a programming language designed
especially for Computer-Aided Instruction (CAI). It is particularly
well-suited for tutorials and instruction in non-mathematical domains.

[FCM2]
Fuzzy Cognitive Map (Josef Betancourt, reg. fee: $0) is a simple
implementation of the Fuzzy Cognitive Map example found in the texts Neural
Networks and Fuzzy Systems, Fuzzy Thinking (by Kosko)and Fuzzy Logic (by
McNeill D.)

[PCLISP]
PCLisp (Ashwood-Smith, Peter; $15) while small, is capable of running a
pretty good subset of Franz LISP. The functions are supposed to perform in
the same way as Franz with a few exceptions made for efficiencies sake.
Other features include full garbage collection of all types, heap
management, access to some MSDOS BIOS graphics routines, over 160 built-in
functions, stack overflow detection and full error checking on all calls,
and more.

[PDNNET]
Public Domain Neural Network 1.1 is a backpropagation neural network
development package. This system tries to develop a curve fit for a set of
data for which the user knows and can verify the results and the program
uses that fit to compute results for new data. (Bruce W. Colletti, reg.
fee: $0)

[PIE_BR]
PIE (Ruggles, Brent; $0) is a Prolog interpreter with several examples,
including Eliza and Turtle Graphics. PIE also does string handling,
windowing and real arithmetic.

[XLISP]
XLisp (Betz, David Michael; $0) is an experimental, artificial intelligence
programming language combining some of the features of Common Lisp with an
object-oriented extension capability. It was implemented to allow
experimentation with object-oriented programming on small computers.

[XXXPERT]
XXXPert (Thurber, Stephen; $50) is an expert system facility (editor and
inference engine).