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- New Haven 0.92 -- First public BETA release
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- A toolkit to create and operate complex stimuli environments for simulations
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- The operative part provides interactive and simultaneous management of
- several independant high bandwidth input systems running on a network of
- computers; an input system being here a combination of two dimensional
- surfaces which can generate dynamic data patterns and are chosen from a
- range of available topologies.
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- The creative part of New Haven is made of an Objective-C library that helps
- design these input generators and that describes the interaction protocols
- between input system, simulation system and the management application.
- This library also provides specialized support for designing cellular automata,
- which can then be used as stimuli generators in this environmnent.
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- New Haven has grown out of difficulties to stay in control of my neural net
- simulations. A (non-exhaustive) list of these include:
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- - make concurrent processes work together
- - ... over computer boundaries
- - interactive manipulation of system parameters
- - running several simulations simultaneously
- - long execution times and persistance
- - interactive recombination of system components.
- - keep track of system evolution
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- New Haven is an attempt to throw all this into a graphical user interface that
- avoids the mostly negative stress involved with dealing with these problems,
- and thus brings more fun and creativity into experimentation through
- managability. You can graphically set up and assist simulation systems with
- complex input paths without becoming involved in the unromantic work of
- writing the code that makes these components interact. You can focus the
- attention to the actual input component functionality and are provided with
- construction material for dynamic and spatially distributed stimuli structures.
- You have a standard means of interaction for all applications that conform to
- New Haven, as well as a graphical event driven interface application that
- organizes this interaction and offers a set of management features which can
- be used by these applications..
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- The package contains several example applications and their sources, Intel
- binaries for the management application, and Intel binaries plus documentation
- for the library. New Haven is shareware, and information about source code
- licenses for the library and the management application is available upon
- registration. Registration also remains valid for future releases.
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- The package.needs Installer.app to install. The installation procedure will
- then open a RTF file with further explanations. The software has been
- developed under Nextstep 3.2 and should require at least 3.0 to run. It is
- still in BETA testing. Therefore it runs at present only on Intel CPUs. You
- are invited to play with it and post me your reactions (and/or bug reports ;-)
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- Serge Thill -- Email: serge.thill@coctel.lu --- 29 march 1997.
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- New Haven 0.92 can be obtained from:
- ftp://ftp.crpht.lu/pub/sources/next/newhaven/NewHaven.0.92.README
- ftp://ftp.crpht.lu/pub/sources/next/newhaven/NewHaven.0.92.I.pkg.tar.gz
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- It has also been submitted to the peanuts archive and will hopefully soon be
- available under:
- ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Science/misc/NewHaven.0.92.README
- ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Science/misc/NewHaven.0.92.I.pkg.tar.gz
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