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         212.285.1864 MCImail: CoSy            Author: Bob Armstrong


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   CoSy : The Intelligent Attache for the Responsible Individual
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 CoSy is a ready to use briefcase computer for the intellectual support of
 individuals in the business of life. CoSy is simply more efficient than
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 This report :    Summarizes the international APL conference held August
                  7th thru 10th here in Manhattan.   See:  APL89

                  Presents the records in CoSy of a dishonest 'party' scam by
                  the Bedrox nightclub.   See:   The Fine Line of Honesty
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 CoSy is built in, and extends 'A Programming Language' and the diversity of
 papers presented at the conference illustrates its use as a 'Tool of Thought'
 -- the attributes which lead it to be the foundation of CoSy.

 The record of the scam not only illuminates a practice which deserves
 exposure, but provides an example of the enhanced record keeping ability
 of CoSy. The status of such records in legal and common business practice
 perhaps will be the most profound consequence of the replacement of paper by
 notebook computers.


 May your life be CoSy,                            THU.AUG,1989.8.24,13:19
                                                   Highland Park, IL, USA


 Bob Armstrong
 Founder, President

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      By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation
      sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in
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                 A.N. Whitehead quoted by Kenneth Iverson in his Turing
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 Unlike other programming languages, APL was created as a notation to aid
 the precise expression of sophisticated concepts. The depth and power of
 its concepts is what led me to learn it in the '70s when I was working to
 understand the mathematics of brains, and why I have 'lived in it' ever
 since. I realized that if I hoped to continue to learn new things in the
 '90s, they would have to be expressed, very succinctly in a form I could
 experiment with on my computer.

 APL conferences are unique among computer conferences in presenting papers
 which are expositions, in the language, of diverse subjects, rather than
 being about computers or data processing. Below are synopses of a number of
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   Workspace 'Maze' , Anthony Camacho : Showed 'travelogue' of British
    mazes and talked about solving them - including a new 'coloured' variety.

   APL as a Tool for Computations in Growth Studies , Tapio Nummi : Presented
    the mathematics of generalized multivariate analysis of variance to
    estimate growth curves when data is incomplete.

   APL Descriptions of Functional Building Blocks for Connectionist Computer
    Models , Alvin Surkin : 'Neural Net' algorithms expressed in APL terser
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This talk, in fact, represents the expository use of APL I
anticipated in the '70s. I was never directly involved with
'holographic', or more properly, 'correlational' memory theory, but
kept up with the field. The fundamental phenomenon is the ability to
recreate a pattern from its correlation with another. An example is
presented without comment below.

       Q   ? 12 ы 2           |>| 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
       QW  ? 10 ы 2           |>| 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1

       M   Q ш.= QW           |>| 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
                                   0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1
                                   0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1
                                   1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
                                   0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1
                                   0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1
                                   1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
                                   1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
                                   1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
                                   1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
                                   0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1
                                   1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
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       R  M ^.= QW            |>| 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
        Q  р  R        |>| 1


I believe the meanings of the APL operations can be discerned by
close inspection. No other language can so simply express these
ideas. The ability to recall a whole pattern on the basis of a
partial cue is illustrated below:

       5  QW  |>| 0 1 0 1 1
       ( 12 5  M) ^.= 5  QW  |>| 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
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   Processing Natural Language: Syntactic and Semantic Mechanisms , Hagamen,
    Berry, Iverson, & Weber : The functional knowledge in the 2000 pages of
    'Gray"s Anatomy' reduced to a 3 by 5000 matrix of indices. A very
    impressive system used to teach anatomy at Cornell U. Medical College.


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   APL for MUSIC , Stanley Jordan : Invited Speaker . Brilliant and beautiful
    talk by the noted Jazz musician. Not only plays guitar, but creates
    clouds of sound meandering in multidimensional spaces -- in APL.

   Astrophysical APL - Diamonds in the Sky , Schneider, Paluzzi, & Webb :
    Members of the Space Telescope group present the physics of carbon white
    dwarf stars in half a dozen short APL functions.

   Diawa Time Series Analysis Package , Daiwa Institute of Research :
    Presented an analysis of recent economic growth in Japan as an example of
    the use of their financial databases and APL based analytical systems.

   Reflections on Teaching APL to Eighth Graders , Kristen Sternberg :
    NYC private school students, meeting once a week, grasp the concepts,
    including arrays, quickly, but have trouble remembering the symbols, even
    apparently obvious ones like Ќ (maximum) and Џ (minimum). Interference
    with notation being learned in other classes may contribute to the
    problem, and lack of use of APL in other classes with mathematical
    content does not help.

   Streamlining APL , Arthur Whitney : Described an extremely efficient APL
    interpreter created by and for the Analytical Proprietary Trading group
    at Morgan Stanley. The system supports continuous rule-based monitoring
    of financial markets. 'Most of what it does couldn"t be done in any other
    environment.'

   Using APL for Computer Graphics Notation , Judson Rosebush : Discussed
    issues ranging from the practical to the abstract surrounding computer
    animation in the commercial production environment. Many of his
    accompaning videos are familiar from commercial television.

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 The keynote address, 'A Planning Language', was not by an APLer, nor about
 programming per se. Tom Gilb discussed the 'cartesian' analysis of project
 objectives and costs in terms of numerical measurments of observables.
 For instance, a binary notion such as 'user friendly' might be quantified in
 terms of training time, frequency of user errors, etc.
 The goal of such analyses is unambiguous contracts specifying measurable
 criteria for critical factors, all on 1 page.

 Mr. Gilb's work resonates with CoSy because of the ability to construct
 'executable' contracts in CoSy. Just as the example of associative memory,
 above, is embedded in this newsletter, the quantitative specifications of a
 contract can be embedded in it.


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