Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!marcel From: marcel@uiucdcs.UUCP (marcel ) Newsgroups: net.ai Subject: Re: Build A Machine in Seven Easy Steps - (nf) Message-ID: <5340@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Feb-84 22:25:27 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.5340 Posted: Fri Feb 3 22:25:27 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 05:37:44 EST Lines: 13 #R:ecn-ee:15300003:uiucdcs:32300019:000:496 uiucdcs!marcel Feb 3 17:12:00 1984 Ed Snow, from CS at Carnegie-Mellon; Thompson, from EE at Carnegie-Mellon, etc, working for Mario Barbacci and Dan Siewiorek, built a system that was not explicitly AI, but was CAD. It was reputedly capable of mapping functional descriptions into hardware designs through a number of architectural levels. I think they used the ISPS description language. The system might be valuable for comparison. Marcel Schoppers U of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign {pur-ee|ihnp4}!uiucdcs!marcel