[5-1] FTP Repositories
CMU AI Repository:
The CMU Artificial Intelligence Repository was established by
Carnegie Mellon University to contain public domain and freely
distributable software, publications, and other materials of
interest to AI researchers, educators, students, and practitioners.
The AI Repository currently contains more than a gigabyte of
material and is growing steadily.
The AI Repository is accessible for free by anonymous FTP, AFS, and
WWW. A selection of materials from the AI Repository is also being
published on CD-ROM by Prime Time Freeware and is available for
purchase by mail or fax (see [6-5] for more information).
The AI Repository is accessible by anonymous FTP from
ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/ [128.2.206.173]
by AFS (Andrew File System) from
/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/ai-repository/ai/
and by WWW from the URL
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/AI/html/repository.html
Be sure to read the files 0.doc and readme.txt in this directory.
The AI Repository is still under construction, but to date, the
AI Programming Languages and the AI Software Packages sections
are "complete". These can be accessed in the lang/ and areas/
subdirectories of the AI Repository. Compression and archiving
utilities may be found in the util/ subdirectory. Other directories,
which are in varying states of completion, are events/ (Calendar of
Events, Conference Calls) and pubs/ (Publications, including technical
reports, books, mail/news archives).
The AI Programming Languages section of the repository includes
directories for Common Lisp, Prolog, Scheme, Smalltalk, and
other AI-related programming languages.
The AI Software Packages section of the repository includes
subdirectories for:
agents/ Intelligent Agent Architectures
alife/ Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems
anneal/ Simulated Annealing
blackbrd/ Blackboard Architectures
bookcode/ Code From AI Textbooks
ca/ Cellular Automata
classics/ Classical AI Programs
constrnt/ Constraint Processing
dai/ Distributed AI
discover/ Discovery and Data-Mining
doc/ Documentation
edu/ Educational Tools
expert/ Expert Systems/Production Systems
faq/ Frequently Asked Questions
fuzzy/ Fuzzy Logic
games/ Game Playing
genetic/ Genetic Algorithms, Genetic Programming,
Evolutionary Programming
icot/ ICOT Free Software
kr/ Knowledge Representation, Semantic Nets, Frames, ...
learning/ Machine Learning
misc/ Miscellaneous AI
music/ Music
neural/ Neural Networks, Connectionist Systems, Neural Systems
nlp/ Natural Language Processing (Natural Language
Understanding, Natural Language Generation, Parsing,
Morphology, Machine Translation)
planning/ Planning, Plan Recognition
reasonng/ Reasoning (Analogical Reasoning, Case Based Reasoning,
Defeasible Reasoning, Legal Reasoning, Medical Reasoning,
Probabilistic Reasoning, Qualitative Reasoning,
Temporal Reasoning, Theorem Proving/Automated Reasoning,
Truth Maintenance)
robotics/ Robotics
search/ Search
speech/ Speech Recognition and Synthesis
testbeds/ Planning/Agent Testbeds
vision/ Computer Vision
The repository has standardized on using 'tar' for producing
archives of files and 'gzip' for compression.
To search the keyword index by mail, send a message to:
ai+query@cs.cmu.edu
with one or more lines containing calls to the keys command, such as:
keys lisp iteration
in the message body. Keywords may be regular expressions and are
compared with the index in a case-insensitive conjunctive fashion.
You'll get a response by return mail. Do not include anything else in
the Subject line of the message or in the message body. For help on
the query mail server, include:
help
instead.
A Mosaic interface to the keyword searching program is accessible
through the URL
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/AI/html/keys/keysform.html
We plan on making the source code (including indexes) to
this keyword searching program available, as soon as it is stable.
We hope to eventually have a fully automated calendar of events,
an expanded AI Publications directory, mailing list and newsgroup
archives, and much much more.
Contributions of software and other materials are always welcome but
must be accompanied by an unambiguous copyright statement that grants
permission for free use, copying, and distribution -- either a
declaration by the author that the materials are in the public domain,
that the materials are subject to the GNU General Public License (cite
version), or that the materials are subject to copyright, but the
copyright holder grants permission for free use, copying, and
distribution. (We will tell you if the copying permissions are too
restrictive for us to include the materials in the repository.)
Inclusion of materials in the repository does not modify their
copyright status in any way. Materials may be placed in:
ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/new/
When you put anything in this directory, please send mail to
ai+contrib@cs.cmu.edu
giving us permission to distribute the files, and state whether
this permission is just for the AI Repository, or also includes
publication on the CD-ROM version (Prime Time Freeware for AI).
We would also appreciate if you would include a 0.doc file for your
package; see /user/ai/new/package.doc for a template. (If you don't
have the time to write your own, we can write it for you based on
the information in your package.)
For more information on the CMU AI Repository, please send mail to
Mark Kantrowitz <AI.Repository@cs.cmu.edu>.
Known mirrors:
+ Lisp Section
ftp.sunet.se:/pub/lang/lisp/
Ada Repository:
The Ada Repository on wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (mailing list
ada-sw@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil) contains a directory of AI programs in
PD2:<ADA.AI>*.*. A somewhat easier to access copy of the archives is
available as wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/ada/ai/.
UCLA Artificial Life Depository:
ftp.cognet.ucla.edu:/pub/alife/ [128.97.8.19]
Repository of papers, articles, tech reports, software and other items of
interest to Artificial Life researchers. It includes an archive of
past postings to the alife mailing list, alife@cognet.ucla.edu (send
mail to alife-request@cognet.ucla.edu to be added to the list).
Artificial Life Online and the Artificial Life BBS:
Sponsored by MIT Press and the Santa Fe Institute, Artificial Life
Online and the Artificial Life BBS is intended to be a central
information collection and distribution site on the Internet for any
and all aspects of the Artificial Life endeavor.
A special feature of the BBS is a collection of 40 or so local
newsgroups dedicated to a wide variety of topics in Artificial Life.
Artificial Life Online is accessible by anonymous ftp from
alife.santafe.edu:/pub/ [192.12.12.99]
by World-Wide Web from
http://alife.santafe.edu/
and by Gopher from
gopher://alife.santafe.edu:70/
To access the Alife Online BBS (ALBBS) by telnet, telnet to
alife.santafe.edu and login as "bbs". You will find yourself in a
specially constructed UNIX shell within which either BBS menu commands
or UNIX commands can be used to browse around in the system. Run the
"account" program to set up a local account. These accounts will
initially be provided free of charge, but they will eventually have to
charge a nominal fee in order to cover operating expenses (on the
order of $15-$25 per year). Subscribers to the Artificial Life Journal
from MIT Press will have this fee waived. Once you have an account on
alife.santafe.edu, you can telnet to alife.santafe.edu and login as
yourself. You do not have to create an account to use the ALBBS via
telnet -- you can simply login as "bbs" and browse through the system
using the BBS commands.
Please send suggestions and questions about the Alife Online/BBS
system to feedback@alife.santafe.edu.
Artificial Life:
life.anu.edu.au:/pub/complex_systems/alife/
Computational Linguistics Paper Archive:
Papers related to computation and language (computational linguistics,
natural language processing, speech processing, and related fields)
may be submitted to and obtained from the CMP-LG email server, which
also maintains a subscription list for automatic daily notification of
newly submitted papers. For information about the server, send mail to
cmp-lg@xxx.lanl.gov
with Subject line
help
or access the WWW URL
http://xxx.lanl.gov/cmp-lg/
The papers are also accessible by anonymous ftp to
xxx.lanl.gov:/cmp-lg/listings/
xxx.lanl.gov:/cmp-lg/papers/
For more information, send mail to Stuart Shieber <shieber@das.harvard.edu>.
Consortium for Lexical Research:
clr.nmsu.edu:/CLR/ [128.123.1.12]
Archive containing a variety of programs and data files related to
natural language processing research, with a particular focus on
lexical research. The file 00README.clr.site is a good place to start.
See the file catalog or catalog.ps for a listing of the contents of
the archive. Long descriptions are in the info/ subdirectory.
Materials for paid-up members of the Consortium are in the
members-only/ subdirectory. Public materials include the Alvey Natural
Language Tools, Sowa's Conceptual Graph parser implemented in YACC by
Maurice Pagnucco, a morphological parsing lexicon of English, a
phonological rule compiler for PC-KIMMO, C source code for the NIST
SGML parser, PC-KIMMO sources, the 1911 Roget Thesaurus, and a variety
of word lists (including English, Dutch, and male/female/last names).
Comments and questions may be directed to lexical@nmsu.edu.
There are also some materials in clr.nmsu.edu:/pub/ unrelated to
the archive.
FJ Repository:
The FJ Repository contains freeware from Japan (FJ = "From Japan").
The fj.sources subdirectory is a good place to look for free
software from Japan. Some files in the repository may contain
Kana and Kanji characters. The repository is available by
anonymous ftp from
utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp:/fj/fj.sources [133.11.11.11]
The file Index contains an index of all the files in each volume.
Files of particular interest include:
v07/786: Portable Prolog for Common Lisp
v25/2577: General-Purpose Fuzzy Inference Library Ver. 3.0 (1/1)
Fuzzy Logic Repositories:
ntia.its.bldrdoc.gov:/pub/fuzzy/ [132.163.64.201] contains information
concerning fuzzy logic, including bibliographies (bib/), product
descriptions and demo versions (com/), machine readable published
papers (lit/), miscellaneous information, documents and reports (txt/),
and programs, code and compilers (prog/). You may download new items
into the new/ subdirectory. If you deposit anything in new/, please
inform fuzzy@its.bldrdoc.gov. The repository is maintained by
Timothy Butler, tim@its.bldrdoc.gov. The Fuzzy Logic Repository is also
accessible through a mail server, rnalib@its.bldrdoc.gov. For help on
using the server, send mail to the server with the following line in
the body of the message:
@@ help
Other commands available include index, list, find, send, and credits.
Ostfold Regional College in Norway recently started a ftp site
for material related to fuzzy logic, ftp.dhhalden.no:/pub/Fuzzy/
[158.36.33.11]. Material to be included in the archive (e.g.,
papers and code) may be placed in the upload/ directory. Now holds the
files from Togai's mail-server, and other files from Timothy Butler's
site ntia.its.bldrdoc.gov. It also includes some demo programs. Send
email to Asgeir Osterhus, <asgeiro@dhhalden.no>.
Togai InfraLogic, Inc. (TIL) also runs a fuzzy logic email server
which contains demo versions of some of their software, fuzzy logic
bibliographies, conference announcements, a short introduction to
fuzzy logic, copies of the company newsletter, archives of
comp.ai.fuzzy, and so on. See the entry in the answer to question
[1-7] for more information on the company. To get started with the
fuzzy logic email server, send a message with NO SUBJECT LINE to
fuzzy-server@til.com, containing just the word "help" in the message
body. The server will reply with a set of instructions. Please
address any comments, questions or requests to either erik@til.com or
tanaka@til.com. Most of the contents of the TIL server is mirrored at
Tim Butler's fuzzy logic ftp repository at ntia.its.bldrdoc.gov and at
Ostfold ftp repository at ftp.dhhalden.no. For more information,
write to Togai InfraLogic, Inc., 5 Vanderbilt, Irvine, CA 92718 or
call 714-975-8522.
The Aptronix FuzzyNet files are available through an email
server. Send email to fuzzynet@aptronix.com with "help"
in the message body to get instructions on how to retrieve files.
"catalog" or "index" will get you a listing of available files.
(You can also connect to the FuzzyNet repository by modem to Aptronix
FuzzyNet 408-428-1883 N/8/1 1200-19,200 baud.) Files on the server
include descriptions of fuzzy logic applications (e.g., washing
machines, camera focusing, air conditioning), introductory materials,
Fide related information, archives of comp.ai.fuzzy, etc. If you'd
like to have a file included in the FuzzyNet server (e.g., moderate
length technical reports), send email to Scott Irwin
<irwin@aptronix.com>.
Genetic Algorithms:
The Genetic Algorithms Repository is accessible by anonymous ftp as
ftp.aic.nrl.navy.mil:/pub/galist/
It includes past copies of the genetic algorithms digest in
ftp.aic.nrl.navy.mil:/pub/galist/digests/
some information files in
ftp.aic.nrl.navy.mil:/pub/galist/info/
and some software in
ftp.aic.nrl.navy.mil:/pub/galist/src/
The information files includes Nici Schraudolph's survey of free and
commercial GA software (send email to <schraudo@cs.ucsd.edu> to add to
the list).
The software includes GAC (a simple GA written in C), GAL (a simple GA
written in Common Lisp), GAucsd, GECO (a Common Lisp toolbox for
constructing genetic algorithms), GENESIS, GENOCOP, Paragenesis (a
parallel version of GENESIS that runs on the CM-200), SGA-C (a C
implementation/extension of Goldberg's SGA system).
Genetic Programming:
The Genetic Programming Repository is located at
ftp.cc.utexas.edu:/pub/genetic-programming/ [128.83.186.13]. It
contains the archives of the genetic programming mailing list
(including the GP FAQ posting), papers and source code. The source
code includes the GP implementation from Koza's book and some related
systems. Some of the GP packages available include GPQUICK,
Gepetto, GPCplus, and SGPC.
Adam Fraser <a.fraser@eee.salford.ac.uk> has produced a html
version of the GP FAQ and made it available from his Web page,
http://www.salford.ac.uk/docs/depts/eee/genetic.html
UC/Irvine (UCI) AI/Machine Learning Repository:
ftp.ics.uci.edu has a variety of AI-related materials, with a special
focus on machine learning. For example,
ftp.ics.uci.edu:/pub/machine-learning-databases/
contains over 80 benchmark data sets for classifier systems (30mb).
Files may also be retrieved by email using the archive server
archive-server@ics.uci.edu. Commands to the server should be given
in the message body. Some commands are:
help
send <archive> <file>
find <archive> <string>
The help command replies with a useful help message.
Site Librarian: Patrick M. Murphy (ml-repository@ics.uci.edu)
Off-Site Assistant: David W. Aha (aha@cs.jhu.edu)
Machine Learning:
Various programs (e.g., ID3) and publications related to machine
learning are available by anonymous ftp from the machine
learning group (under Raymond Mooney) at UT-Austin, at
cs.utexas.edu:/pub/mooney/
Subdirectories include
ml-course information and homeworks from a graduate course
in machine learning taught by Dr. Mooney. Homeworks
include "miniatures" of various machine learning
systems written in Common Lisp.
ml-code Common Lisp code corresponding to the assignments
for the course in the ml-course directory.
ml-progs More "research-level" versions of inductive
classification algorithms and software for automated
experiments that generation learning curves that
compare several systems.
papers Publications producted by the machine learning
research group.
Machine Learning Algorithms Implemented in Prolog:
In 1988 the Special Interest Group on Machine Learning of the German
Society for Computer Science (GI e.V.) decided to establish a library
of PROLOG implementations of Machine Learning algorithms. The library
includes - amongst others - PROLOG implementations of Winston's arch,
Becker's AQ-PROLOG, Fisher's COBWEB, Brazdil's generation of
discriminations from derivation trees, Quinlan's ID3, FOIL, IDT,
substitution matching, explanation based generalization, inverse
resolution, and Mitchell's version spaces algorithm.
All algorithms are written in Edinburgh Prolog syntax. Most of the
algorithms are copyleft under the GNU General Public License.
The programs are currently available via anonymous ftp-server from
the GMD:
ftp.gmd.de:/gmd/mlt/ML-Program-Library/ [129.26.8.84]
They are also available by surface mail from Thomas Hoppe,
Projektgruppe KIT, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Franklinstr. 28/29,
10629 Berlin, Germany. Files will be distributed via MS-DOS formated
3.5 inch floppy (double, high and extra-high density), which should
be included with your request. You can also get them by sending an email
message to Thomas Hoppe (see below).
Send additional PROLOG implementations of Machine Learning
Algorithms, complaints about them and detected bugs or problems
to Thomas Hoppe, <hoppet@cs.tu-berlin.de>. Send suggestions and
complaints about the ftp library to Werner Emde, Gesellschaft
fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, Bonn, <emde@gmd.de>.
The directory ftp.gmd.de:/MachineLearning/ contains additional
machine learning publications, data, and software, primarily related
to the European ESPRIT projects Machine Learning Toolbox (MLT) and
Inductive Logic Programming (ILP), the European Network of Excellence
in Machine Learning (MLnet) and the Inductive Logic Programming
Pan-European Scientific Network (ILPnet). It includes the source code
of Stephen Muggleton's and Cao Feng's GOLEM learning system (in
/MachineLearning/ILP/public/software/golem) and a BibTex file with
around 325 entries of articles related to ILP (in
/MachineLearning/ILP/public/bib). For more information, send mail to
Marcus Luebbe <ml-archive@gmd.de>.
CMU Simulator Collection:
The CMU Simulator Collection is available by anonymous ftp from
ftp.cs.cmu.edu [128.2.206.173] in the directory
/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/connect/code/
The collection includes Lisp and C implementations of Scott
Fahlman's Cascade Correlation algorithm, Scott Fahlman's
Quickprop variation on the back-propagation algorithm, and Scott
Fahlman's Recurrent Cascade-Correlation simulator. The collection also
includes Aspririn/Migraines and Tesauro. The neural network benchmark
collection is available in
/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/connect/bench/
The data sets include the NETtalk data, a vowel recognition
task, and several others.
The archives of the connectionists mailing list are kept in
/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/connect/connect-archives/
along with a Lisp implementation of a backprop simulator. For more
information, write to neural-bench@cs.cmu.edu.
Funic Neural FTP Archive Site:
The Finnish University maintains an archive site containing a large
collection of neural network papers and public domain software
gathered from FTP sites in the US. The files are available by
anonymous ftp from funic.funet.fi:/pub/sci/neural/ [128.214.6.100].
(Also know as ftp.funet.fi, nic.funet.fi.) See the file 01README for
details. A list of mirrored ftp sites is in 04Neural_FTP_Sites. For
further information, contact neural-adm@funic.funet.fi or Marko
Gronroos <magi@funic.funet.fi> (or <magi@utu.fi>).
OSU Neuroprose:
archive.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/neuroprose/ [128.146.8.52]
This directory contains technical reports as a public service to the
connectionist and neural network scientific community which has an
organized mailing list (for info: connectionists-request@cs.cmu.edu)
UKaiserslautern Neural/Fuzzy Repository:
The University of Kaiserslautern has set up a ftp server for reports
and software related to its neural networks and fuzzy logic projects,
including the MOBOT, SPIN, and ALBATROSS projects. Programs currently
available include Joerg Bruske's neural fuzzy decision system
SPIN-NFDS and Herman Keuchel's unsupervised clustering system. Most
of the ready-to-run programs were written for the Apple Macintosh.
Sources for the "kernel" of the programs are available by ftp, written
in Pascal. The user-interface code is also available upon request.
Some of the documentation is in German. The papers and software are
available from
ag_vp_file_server.informatik.uni-kl.de:/Neural_Networks/Reports/
ag_vp_file_server.informatik.uni-kl.de:/Neural_Networks/Software/
Some papers and software are also available from
ftp.uni-kl.de:/reports_uni-kl/computer_science/mobile_robots/
For more information, contact Uwe R. Zimmer <uzimmer@informatik.uni-kl.de>.
NL Software Registry:
The Natural Language Software Registry is a catalogue of software
implementing core natural language processing techniques, whether
available on a commercial or noncommercial basis. Some of the topics
listed include speech signal processing, morphological analysis,
parsers, natural language generation systems, and knowledge
representation systems. The second edition of the catalog contains
more than 100 descriptions of natural language processing software.
The catalogue is available from the German Research Institute for
Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Saarbruecken (Germany) by anonymous
ftp to
ftp.dfki.uni-sb.de:/pub/registry/
crlftp.nmsu.edu:/pub/non-lexical/NL_Software_Registry/
dri.cornell.edu:/pub/NLSR/
svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk:/pub/comp.speech/info/
www to
http://cl-www.dfki.uni-sb.de/cl/registry/draft.html
email to registry@dfki.uni-sb.de, or physical mail to NL Software
Registry, Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz,
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-W-6600 Saarbruecken, Germany, or by telephone
to +49 (681) 303-5282. Copies are also available from
crlftp.nmsu.edu:/pub/non-lexical/NL_Software_Registry
dri.cornell.edu:/pub/NLSR
If you'd like to include your NLP software in the registry, return
the questionnaire which is available from the ftp sites.
Essex ROBOTS Archive:
Contains robotics related information.
ftp.essex.ac.uk:/pub/robots/
http://www.essex.ac.uk
Miscellaneous AI:
Some miscellaneous AI programs may be found on ftp.uu.net:/pub/ai/
Most are mirrors of programs available at other sites.
AI_ATTIC is an anonymous ftp collection of classic AI programs and
other information maintained by the University of Texas at Austin. It
includes Parry, Adventure, Shrdlu, Doctor, Eliza, Animals, Trek, Zork,
Babbler, Jive, and some AI-related programming languages. This
archive is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cc.utexas.edu
(bongo.cc.utexas.edu, 128.83.186.13) in the directory /pub/AI_ATTIC.
For more information, contact atticmaster@bongo.cc.utexas.edu.
The QWERTZ toolbox, a library of Standard ML modules with an emphasis
on symbolic Artificial Intelligence programming, (including
implementations of heuristic search and an ATMS reason maintenance
system) may be obtained by anonymous ftp from
ftp.gmd.de:/gmd/ai-research/Software/qwertz.tar.gz
For more information, write to Tom Gordon <thomas.gordon@gmd.de>.
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