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Article #13701Re: Processing
From: Thomas P. Morris
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1987 15:22
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1987 15:22
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In article <6654@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes: > To put it another way, you have no proof (not getting stuffy here) > that what's required to do natural language is more cycles. It seems > plausible, but why aren't there any good software systems running on > Crays (eg, or pick your favorite appropriate high-end box.) I'm just > saying it's not obvious the lacking thing is cycles. Barry, not being an expert on Natural Language Processing or Voice Recognition, I agree that it _may_ not be the lack of cycles (or memory, for that matter) which is holding back these technologies. However, it wouldn't seem very cost- effective to even do research on these topics using a Cray, or any other favorite high-end box (perhaps a Connection Machine? ;-)). To make the _software technology_ widely available, I'd think that a desk-top 100MIP, 4Gb machine (say, $10K, 5yrs from now :-> ) would make the research and the realization of these technologies more cost effective.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcnc!ecsvax!tpmsph From: tpmsph@ecsvax.UUCP (Thomas P. Morris) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Processing Message-ID: <2931@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 18-Apr-87 10:22:46 EST Article-I.D.: ecsvax.2931 Posted: Sat Apr 18 10:22:46 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Apr-87 14:39:19 EST References: <505@sw1e.UUCP> <110@hippo.UUCP> <6123@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <6654@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Lines: 15 Summary: NLP, MIPS, Megs, and cost-effectivenes