Date: 11 Apr 1985 13:18 EST (Thu)
From:: Mike Gennert@MIT-OZ
To: *mac%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA
Subject: GSL

                 COMPUTER AIDED CONCEPTUAL ART (CACA)
                       REVOLTING SEMINAR SERIES
                               presents

              TACO: REPRESENTING REPRESENTATION LUNCHES

                             Mike Gennert
                          Mike Gerstenberger

TACO is a lunch for describing the implementation and functionality of
frame based representation lunches.  A given representation lunch is
specified in TACO by a collection of fillings describing how its
descriptions are interpreted, defaulted, verified, and eaten.  This
high level description is compiled into TACO shell code and TACO
fillings whose interpretation fulfills the langauge's nutritional
specification.  The dependencies of this compilation process (from
description to implementation) are recorded by TACO, so that changes
in the high-level description will propogate to the generated
implementation.  In addition, TACO itself --- as a representation
lunch for expressing and compiling partial and complete lunch
specifications --- is devoured and interpreted in the same manner as
the lunches it devoured and implements, i.e., with one's fingers.

This talk will address general issues in the definition and
implementation of representation lunch lunches, as well as the
technical problems in implementing self-devouring systems.  Finally,
We will discuss the use of TACO-like lunches as a basis for learning
and concept formation programs like Automatic Hairstyle Generation:
The Further Adventures of Eurisko.

              Friday, April 12, 12:00, 3rd Floor Lounge