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Date:Mon Oct 20 00:40:06 1995 
Subject:Re: High School Student is in need of AI material 
From:Aaron Sloman 
Volume-ID:951021.01 

Scott Musman <musman> writes (in comp.ai):

> Date: 13 Oct 1995 15:42:23 GMT
> Organization: The MITRE Corporation
>
> I haven't personally had a chance to try this yet but there is a system
> called POPLOG available for free in a form which would probably allow
> you to do your project. Check out:-
> ftp://ftp.cogs.susx.ac.uk/pub/poplog/poplog15.0.
>
> 	It runs under linux (a free unix for the PC) it contains the
> languages Common Lisp, Prolog, Standard ML and POP-11 (which is a
> language that does alot of the same things that lisp does, but has a
> syntax like Pascal) all in an environment that allows you to mix and
> match languages as is appropriate. It also contains numerous teaching
> files (available through an online editor) that can instruct you about
> various AI techniques.

The free Linux Poplog is a memory-limited version of the commercial
Poplog system which runs on several Unix systems (Sparc, HPPA, SGI,
DEC Alpha), PC Linux, and VMS (Vax & Alph), available from (this is
a new address):

    Integral Solutions Limited
    Berk House
    Basing View
    Basingstoke
    Hants RG21 4RG, UK

    Tel. +44 (0)1256 55899
    Fax. +44 (0)1256 63467

    Email:  isl@isl.co.uk

(ISL offer high educational discounts on their commercial Poplog
systems.)

There's more information about Poplog and Pop-11 available at

	http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/adrianh/poplog.html
        A general overview of Poplog and pointers to various
        poplog based packages and poplog related material

	http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/adrianh/pop11.html
        Includes an overview and pointers to some literature on the
        history of Pop-11 and its precursors, pop10, pop2, cowsel,
        going back to around 1969.

Several of the Poplog "teach" files and library programs have been
updated for use in the AI undergraduate degree course and the
Cognitive Science MSc course at the University of Birmingham, and
may be obtained via ftp from

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

e.g. in the teach/ and help/ subdirectories. The files
    teach/gstart
    teach/netstart

provide brief introductions to Pop-11 for experienced programmers
(the first one using the pop-11 graphics library).

This includes the Pop-11 primer available in various formats (plain
text for online browsing, 256 (A4) page formatted document, and a
2-up version for printing two pages per sheet.

I have not tried linux poplog, and I don't know how serious the
memory limit is. From what I've been told it should work well for
teaching. You can't build your own saved images with it, however.

Aaron
-- 
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