Distributed AI (DAI) exceed 10% of submissions to IJCAI-93, trailing only machine learning and knowledge representation. Twenty DAI papers made the cut, plus invited talks by Les Gasser and Jeffrey Rosenschein. [Michael N. Huhns (huhns@mcc.com), DAI-List, 2/18.]

Ron Sun (rsun@cs.ua.edu) is collecting a bibliography on integration of symbolic processing with neural networks. Contact him for the latest version, or FTP it from sun.hlcbib.asc.Z in the neuroprose archive. [Neuron Digest, 1/28.]

Martin Dudziak (dudziak@vms.cis.pitt.edu) is looking for any work done with neural networks for nuclear particle track-segment detection and track reconstruction. [Neuron Digest, 2/19.]

The European Neural Network Society (ENNS) publishes a newsletter and journal, and organizes several conferences each year. You can get a PostScript application form by binary FTP from pub/ENNS/member_appl_form.ps.Z on dist.unige.it. [Peitro Morasso (morasso@dist.unige.it), connectionists, 3/8.]

If you're into economic forecasting using neural networks, see Neural Network World (V2 N6, 1992) for papers from the 12/92 Prague workshop on Parallel Applications in Statistics and Economics (PASE'92). The journal is published in Prague by the Institute of Computer and Information Science of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (cvs15@cspgcs11.bitnet), edited by Prof. M. Novak. Marco Balsi (mb@tce.ing.uniroma1.it), connectionists, 2/4.]

The UAmsterdam dissertation "Neural Networks in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval" by Johannes C. Scholtes can be obtained for $25 (airmail) or Dfl. 47,50. [scholtes@alf.let.uva.nl, NL-KR, 3/3.]

The MUME multi-net, multi-algorithm connectionist simulator project needs university beta testers for release 0.6. MUME runs on HP 9000/700, SGI, DEC Alpha, and PC DOS with DJGCC. Licensing from USydney is required for FTP access. Marwan Jabri (marwan @sedal.su.oz.au), (+61-2) 660-1228 Fax. [connectionists, 3/3.]

The Xerion neural-net simulator can handle arbitrary topologies and update rules. Its C code comes with an excellent X-windows interface and runs on almost any Unix platform. Drew Camp is the author. Free to Canadian researchers; FTP files and demos from /pub/xerion on ai.toronto.edu. [Larry Hunter (hunter@nlm.nih.gov), Neuron Digest, 2/27.]