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Date:Mon Nov 25 10:38:45 1994 
Subject:AI for plasma control 
From:"A.A.Hopgood (Adrian Hopgood)" 
Volume-ID:941126.01 

Two messages follow.

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1. To the Pop Forum administrator - please add our names to the mailing list:
   A.A.Hopgood@open.ac.uk  (Adrian Hopgood)
   H.J.Phillips@open.ac.uk (Heather Phillips)
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2.  To the Pop community.

This is just a note to introduce ourselves.  We are applying a range of AI
techniques to the control of plasma deposition.  Plasma deposition is a
specialised technique for producing coatings (in our case, diamond-like
carbon).  The project is sponsored by EPSRC for three years, and is now one
year old.  

We have revived our Pop-11 Blackboard system  (ARBS), whose previous uses were
for interpreting ultrasonic images and controlling a simulated
telecommunications network.  We have arranged for the system, running on a
Sparc, to communicate with the plasma deposition hardware.  Now we can really
start to concentrate on theintelligent control problem.

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Adrian Hopgood
Heather Phillips.