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Date:Mon Sep 12 22:40:10 2002 
Subject:Talk by Steve Leach in Birmingham, 4pm Monday 16 Sept 
From:Aaron Sloman 
Volume-ID:1020912.05 

For any comp.lang.pop readers or pop-forum readers close enough, you'll
be welcome to attend the following seminar:

Place:  Room G 40 (Upper ground floor, same level as main entrance).
        School of Computer Science
        The university of Birmingham
        (New building very close to University Railway
        station. See http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/directions.html )

Time: 4pm 16 September 2002

Title: A Review of Using C++ for AI Programming

Speaker: Steve Leach
	Watchfield.Com Ltd   http://www.watchfield.com/
	Freelance software engineer, formerly at HP research labs, Bristol.

Abstract:
Over the past year I have been working on a next generation text
recognition engine for a major software vendor. Written entirely in
C++, it includes a slew of techniques familiar to AI programmers.

This work has provided an opportunity to reflect upon the merits
and demerits of modern C++ in the context of an AI application. C++
itself has advanced somewhat in recent years and some of these
improvements should, at least on paper, be of benefit to non-numerical
programmers. I will begin this talk by briefly reviewing the nature of
AI programming and the salient features of C++. The main section
will highlight the matches and mismatches, draw out the implications
for effective programming, and illustrate these with examples drawn
from my work. I will then compare the use of C++ against some of
the languages more commonly used for AI. Lastly, these comparisons
naturally lead to some proposals for future programming languages.

[Steve is the main designer of the Pop-11 Objectclass OOP system used in
quite a lot of our work. He also contributed extensively to the design
of Pop-11 and poplog while using it at HP labs.]

All welcome.
Aaron
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Aaron Sloman, ( http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/ )
School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
EMAIL A.Sloman AT cs.bham.ac.uk   (ReadATas@please !)
PAPERS: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/ (And free book on Philosophy of AI)
FREE TOOLS: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/freepoplog.html