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The Birmingham Poplog FTP directory

A lot of AI and Cognitive Science teaching material and utility libraries, including a rule-based programming system, and the SIM_AGENT toolkit are available from the Birmingham university Poplog directory, at this address:

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/

The README file
and The Freepoplog Portal give an overview of contents. These include a collection of compressed tar files and several browsable sub-directories, such as:

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/teach http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/help http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/auto http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/lib http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/prb http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/sim http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/menu http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/pui http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/rclib http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/linux.poplog

The "teach/" subdirectory includes several files that improve on the original Poplog versions (some of which the author produced before he left Sussex for Birmingham). The rclib/ subdirectory includes many extensions to the graphical tools in Pop-11, e.g. new tools for building graphical control panels, more flexible than Propsheet.

The prb/ and sim/ subdirectories provide Poprulebase (a powerful and flexible extendable forward chaining condition-action rule interpreter) and the Birmingham SIM_AGENT toolkit, summarised in http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/cog_affect/sim_agent.html

The linux.poplog directory is not guaranteed to be up to date. There are also latex, postscript and plain text versions of this primer.


See also the following sources of information about Poplog and Pop-11.

(a) at Birmingham (UK):

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/poplog.info.html

(b) at Sussex University (Possibly defunct):
Poplog Information at Sussex.

Pop-11 information at Sussex.

(c) at Reading University

(d) At Integral Solutions Ltd, the main Poplog distributors http://www.isl.co.uk/

and a brief introductory overview of Pop-11 http://www.isl.co.uk/pop11int.html



Aaron Sloman
Sun Jan 11 15:16:21 GMT 1998