AI Lab Resources

WPI has a large number of specialized labs. The AI Lab is just on of many labs in the CS Department that support research and projects.

The Machines

In the AI Lab [FL 312] we have two DEC Alphas, three Xterms and a Pentium PC. A PostScript laser printer is available in a nearby room. The two Xerox LISP Workstations and the Sun SPARC workstations have been "retired".

About the machines:

Almond

Xterm

Chestnut

Xterm

Coconut

Xterm

Brazil

DEC Alpha, with color monitor and disk.

Cashew

DEC Alpha, with color monitor and disk.

Pistachio

Pentium II 450 MHz with 128 MB memory.

Laser printer (name : ps3)

Command to print on it: lpr -Pps3 filename The printer is in FL314.

Note: the lab's computers are all named after nuts because it's rumored that one has to be nuts to do AI.

The Operating Systems

• Both Alphas run OSF/1.
• The PC runs Windows NT.

Expert System Development Tools

OPS5

A rule based system shell. Source code is in /usr/local/cl. (still available?)

CLIPS

A Knowledge-base shell. Runs on the PC, and on workstations.

DSPL

An application language used for Design.

(running in LISP).

Other

Demonstrations of other PC expert system tools are available.

Languages and other tools

Allegro Common Lisp Professional Edition 6.2 (as of Aug 2002)

Available on CS.WPI.EDU
Runs Common Windows. Includes Composer environment & CLOS.
ACL 6.2 is now started by using "/usr/local/acl62/alisp".
On CS.WPI.EDU the command "acl" will start Allegro Common Lisp.
Use the function (exit) to return to the Unix prompt.
Documentation is available at /usr/local/acl62/doc/
The Index to all Documentation is at file:/shared/linux/acl62/doc/index.htm on the web.
Details of The Emacs-Lisp Interface are at file:/shared/linux/acl62/doc/eli.htm
See /usr/local/acl62/doc/basic-lisp-techniques.pdf for a LISP book.

CMU Common LISP

Available on WPI. To run type "cmucl".

IBUKI Common Lisp

Available on BIGWPI (still?) To run type "ibcl".

General information about LISP and its use at WPI is available at at the CS 534 web page.

Prolog

Avaliable on CS. To run type "prolog".

SWI-Prolog

Available on WPI. To run type "pl".

Scheme

Available on CS & WPI.

Aspirin/MIGRANES

Available on Hazel. Neural Nets. Version 5.0 from MITRE.

(Needs upgrading).

Visual Basic

Available on PC.

Editors,Window Managers and other utility packages

• Editors:

  Emacs

  On all workstations.

  
  
• Window Managers:

  X-Windows

  On all the workstations.

  Common Windows

  On all workstations, via Lisp.

  Motif & DEC Windows

  Brazil

  XVT

  An interactive editor for building Motif (TM) application interfaces. Available on Brazil.

  
  
• Data Bases

  dBase III

  Available was on the 486 PC.

  POSTGRES

  Available at the Knowledge and Data Base Lab.

  
  
• Documentation Tools

  LaTeX

  On Hazel (Available on Sequoia and Owl too). Edit the file with ".tex" extension. "dvips" prepares the files for printing. "xdvi" can load LaTeX files and makes it possible to view them on screen.

  Frame Maker

  Two single user licenses. Available via Crane. To run type /usr/local/frame/bin/maker.

  Postscript

  On Sequoia.

  X windows Picture drawing utilities (psfig, xfig etc.)

  Available on all workstations.

  
  
• Other Utilities

  Mtools - a collection of tools for manipulating MSDOS files

Reference Manuals

SUN OS manuals

Programmer's Guide

Systems Programmer's Guide

Network Programmer's Guide

Documentation tools

Utilities and Libraries

Xerox m/c Manuals

IPC Manuals

GBB reference manuals

FrameMaker user manuals

Allegro Common Lisp, Composer & CLIM manuals

CLIPS manuals

DEC Windows manuals

OSF/Motif Programmer guides and Manuals

Visual Basic Manuals

XVT Manuals

You can even find reference books for Lisp, Prolog etc. in the AI Lab. Proceedings of the AAAI Conferences and the IJCAI conferences are available in the Lab.