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Date:Mon Jan 21 22:01:54 1997 
Subject:Re: Pop 11 
From:Aaron Sloman 
Volume-ID:970121.02 

James Corrin <J.D.Corrin-CSSE96@cs.bham.ac.uk> writes:

> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 17:29:48 +0000
> Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, U.K.
>
> I'm looking for information and documentation on the Pop-11 programming
> language for a friend studying Artificial Intelligence - can anyone
> suggest a good web site?

Is your friend at Birmingham? We have pop-11 here as part of
Poplog (tm) with many megabytes of online information about
the language and masses of AI teaching material (some from Sussex
University).

The Birmingham Poplog ftp site has lots of stuff, including the
second edition of my primer on Pop-11 (in plain text, latex, or
postscript format. Birmingham students can buy copies at a
subsidised price from our school library.)

The ftp directory is:

    ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog

The README file
    ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/README

gives an overview of the documentation and teaching materials
available, including the Primer.

A bit more information about Pop-11 along with pointers to other
sites can be found in
    ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/poplog.info.html

E.g. see Adrian Howard's Pop-11 file at

    http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/adrianh/pop11.html

A nice introduction to Cognitive Science with examples in Pop-11
is the book
    Mike Sharples,et al.
    Computers and Thought
    MIT Press. 1989

Another is
    Chris Thornton \& Benedict du Boulay (1992)
    Artificial Intelligence Through Search
    Kluwer Academic (Paperback version Intellect Books)
    (Examples all in Prolog and Pop-11)

> Also, is there are way to get hold of a version of Pop-11 for the PC?

There is a free version of Pop-11 for linux which works well but is
memory limited. It can be got from Sussex university at

    ftp://ftp.cogs.susx.ac.uk/pub/poplog/poplog15.0

(or at Birmingham you can borrow the diskettes from our school
library).

There's a non-free version which is not memory limited but for some
reason the graphical facilities don't work at present. I understand
a new Linux Poplog which overcomes the problems will become
available.

Aaron
("Poplog" is a trade mark of the University of Sussex.)
===
Aaron Sloman, ( http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs )
School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, England
EMAIL   A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk
Phone: +44-121-414-4775 (Sec 3711)       Fax:   +44-121-414-4281
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Aaron Sloman, ( http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs )
School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, England
EMAIL   A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk
Phone: +44-121-414-4775 (Sec 3711)       Fax:   +44-121-414-4281