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What’s up
Thursday
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at 12:15 p.m. Call
845-5826 for meeting location.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK
ACCOUNTANTS: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 204 Harring
ton. The meeting is open to all business and economics ma-
jors.
PHI ETA SIGMA NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY: is ac
cepting applications from qualified students until Oct. 27
in 216 Pavilion.
MEXICAN-AMERICAN ENGINEERING SOCIETY: will
have a speaker and have pictures taken for the Aggieland
at 7 p.m. in 501 Rudder.
NAVIGATORS: Blake Purcell will discuss “Do You Have an
Eternal Career Plan?” at 7:45 p.m. in the Corps Quadran
gle Lounge B.
GREAT ISSUES AND POLITICAL FORUM: will present
“Alcohol and the Law” at noon at Rudder Fountain.
KAPPA SIGMA FRATERNITY: will host “Thrash For Dia
betes Bash” to benefit diabetes at 7 p.m. at the Parthenon
in the Woodstone Shopping Center.
AGGIE PLAYERS’ ASSOCIATION: will take pictures for
the Aggieland at 8 p.m. in the MSC main lobby.
TAMU CYCLING TEAM: will meet at 7 p.m. in 305A-B
Rudder.
UNIVERSITY ART EXHIBITS: Dr. Walter Horn will dis
cuss “The Plan of St. Gall: A Master Plan for Monastic Set
tlements of the Ninth Century A.D.” to open the exhibit
“The Plan of St. Gall” at 7:30 P-m. in 201 MSC. A reception
will follow at 8:30 p.m. in the Rudder Exhibit Hall.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. in 145
MSC.
COLLEGIATE FFA: will host Fall Fair Fun Fest at 6 p.m. at
Pearce Pavilion.
YOUTH FUN DAY: will have an informational meeting for
those wanting to be a coach or counselor at 5 p.m. in 501
Rudder.
ZEN MEDITATION GROUP: A Zen Priest will speak at 7
p.m. in 301 Rudder.
PRE-LAW SOCIETY: will host “Law School: How to Write a
Personal Statement” for seniors applying to law school at 7
p.m. in 116 Blocker.
THE ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATE WILDLIFE AND
FISHERIES SCIENTISTS: Stanley Temple, Ronald Ches
ser and Eric Pianka will discuss “Fragile Communities: Eco
logical Perspectives in the Americas” at 1 p.m. in Rudder
Theater.
INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS: Matt Michel
will discuss “The Impact of World Changes on Industrial
Engineering” at 7 p.m. in 203 Zachry.
TEXAS ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY: Registration for
the fall meeting begins at 1 p.m. at the Aggieland Inn.
ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS: will meet at 6 p.m.
in 145 MSC.
Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion,
216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working days be
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A&M helps design
system programs
to advise farmers
By Deborah A. Haring
Reporter
Artificial intelligence computer
programs to help farmers with va
rious aspects of farming are being
developed at Texas A&M, says Dr.
Robert Coulson, an entomology pro
fessor.
The programs are being devel
oped at the Texas Agricultural Ex
periment Station’s Knowledge Engi
neering Laboratory, where Coulson
works with the industrial engi
neering department’s Knowledge
Based Systems Laboratory and the
Texas Engineering Experiment Sta
tion’s Knowledge Systems Research
Laboratory.
Artificial intelligence computer
programs mimic human thought
processes, Coulson says, and each
farming program, called an expert
system, deals with a different farm-
operation decision.
A farmer has to do three basic
things to make a profit, he says. He
has to produce a crop, market that
crop and take advantage of various
farm policies, he says.
Though expert systems help with
decisions in these areas, they can be
combined to make integrated expert
systems, which are more effective.
“Integrated expert systems allow
you to effectively and efficiently uti
lize the available information rela
tive to a particular subject domain,”
he says. “With an enterprise as com
plicated as agriculture, there is so
much information to choose from
that it is difficult for an individual to
keep track of everything. So part of
what the systems do is serve as ar
chives for information.”
The systems use information
from a combination of expert opin
ions gathered from farmers, techni
cal information from research and
simulation-modeling technology.
Simulation models are mathemat
ical models and representations that
show how a complex biological or
ecological system works. They can be
used to project what kind of a yield a
farmer will have on a certain amount
of land with a certain crop, he says.
Farmers are working with people
knowledgeable in the area of artifi
cial-intelligence expert systems and
domain experts, such as agricultural
economists and pest management
specialists, in designing the pro
grams.
Involving farmers in the devel
opment of the systems is important,
Coulson says, because in the past, re
sults of research done for farmers
rarely reached them.
Specialists and farmers team up to
identify problems in farming and
find available information, then or
ganize it and write computer pro
grams that copy the human decision
making process, he says.
“Since most farmers are growing
multiple crops, an important advan
tage of integrated expert systems is
“With an enterprise as
complicated as agricul
ture, there is so much in
formation to choose from
that it is difficult for an in
dividual to keep track of
everything. So part of
what the systems do is
serve as archives for infor
mation. ”
— Robert Coulson,
entomology professor
the ability to find out which blend or
mix of crops is the most profitable
for the certain amount of acreage
you have available to you,” he says.
These systems will be available for
affordable microcomputers and be
simple enough to encourage farmers
to try to use them, Coulson says.
“The systems are farm-size inde
pendent,” he says. “Any size farm,
from a small family farm to a large
corporate farm, will be able to use
the systems.
“A farmer would initialize the
model for his specific farm opera
tion. That would include entering
data on how big the farm is, what
kind of crops he grows and his de
gree of indebtedness.”
The system could then be used to
predict factors such as crop yields
and losses for that farmer, he says.
Though still in the developmental
stages, several programs are almost
ready to be delivered. One of these,
the “rice-weed adviser,” a herbicide
recommendation system for . weed
control, will be finished in early
1988, he says.
Similar systems for both rice and
cotton farming, as well as pest man
agement systems, also are being de
veloped, Coulson says.
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