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Re: Adding Scent to Architectural Design

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From: Mindmaker
Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 00:00
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<a href="http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/aisource.html"> Mind.forth AI </a>
leaves room for "scent" (or OLFACTION) in Forth Screen # 15 out of 90
from the public domain release of the Mind.forth program which seeks
to integrate computer architecture with robot and brain architecture:
 
Screen # 15    ram:cyborg
  --------------------------------
  0  \ <a name="olfaction1"> OLFACTION stub routine</a>    980505atm
  1  \ This area of Mind.forth (or of Mind.xyz) is reserved for
  2  \ roboticists who have access to the "sniffing" machines used
  3  \ in such industries as wine and cheese-making.
  4
  5  \ Since the (expensive and very high-tech) hardware already
  6  \ exists for the machine detection and identification of smells,
  7  \ any robot AI must make allowances for the incorporation of a
  8  \ sense of smell (OLFACTION) into the machine intelligence.
  9
 10  \ The Wall Street Journal thurs.30.apr.1998 p. B8 reports that
 11  \ Cyrano Sciences Inc. of Pasadena CA USA plans to develop four
 12  \ chips each having 8 vapor sensors for a total of 32 sensors.
 13  \ Other artificial nose companies are Alpha M.O.S. SA of France;
 14  \ Neotronics Scientific Ltd. and AromaScan PLC of England.
 15              \  OLFACTION will return to the SENSORIUM function.
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From: mentifex@scn.org (Mindmaker)
Subject: Re: Adding Scent to Architectural Design
Date: 1998/05/07
Message-ID: <355233ee.0@news.victoria.tc.ca>
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Summary: Adding scent is not too far-fetched in the case of Robot AI.
Keywords: Cyrano Sciences, Inc., Alpha M.O.S., AromaScan, Neotronics
Organization: Project Mentifex : www.scn.org/~mentifex/
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.ai,bionet.neuroscience,sci.med.psychobiology