International Grandmaster Gennady Sagalchik (USCF 2568; 35th highest in the US) has lost a chess match to an 1800-node Intel Paragon supercomputer at Sandia. The computer searched over 2M positions per second -- excluding several machine crashes -- using the *Socrates ("Star-Socrates") implementation of Don Dailey's Socrates program. See for details. NSA sponsored the match, but Intel traded additional support for a clickable logo on the tournament WWW page. [Alan T. Sherman, 3/24/95. Tim Finin , comp.ai. David Joslin.] (Parallel processing or high-performance computing isn't AI, but it's a necessary supporting technology.)

The electronic journal PSYCHE-L is running a symposium on Roger Penrose's recent book SHADOWS OF THE MIND. There will be ten review articles, with replies by Penrose. Send a "subscribe psyche-l your name" message to , or read the articles on . For discussions, join the PSYCHE-D list. [David Chalmers , connectionists, 3/31/95.]

Howard Gutowitz's "Artificial-Life Simulators and their Applications" is a report written for the French government. Overview, FTP/WWW resource guide, bibliography, and list of active research groups. for hypertext, or FTP for PostScript. [, DAI-List, 1/27/95.]