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Strategic computing : DARPA and the quest for machine intelligence, 1983-1993 /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Roland, Alex, 1944-
Otros Autores: Shiman, Philip
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.
Colección:History of computing.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chronology: Key DARPA Personnel during the Strategic Computing
  • Program
  • List of Acronyms
  • Introduction
  • Part I
  • 1
  • Robert Kahn: Visionary
  • Switching and Connecting
  • The Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO)
  • AI Autumn
  • An Agent of Restoration
  • 2
  • Robert Cooper: Salesman
  • The Pull of Robert Cooper
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
  • An Agent of Transition
  • Testing the Market
  • The Pyramid as Conceptual Icon
  • Of Time Lines and Applications
  • 3
  • Lynn Conway: Executor
  • Connecting with the Customer
  • The Divorce of the Dynamic Duo
  • Process and Personality
  • The Plight of the Program Manager
  • Part II
  • 4
  • Invisible Infrastructure: MOSIS
  • The Transformation of Microelectronics
  • From VLSI to MOSIS
  • The Value Added
  • Public Good, Political Liability
  • Other Infrastructure
  • 5
  • Over the Wall: The SC Architectures Program
  • The Connection Machine
  • The Wall
  • Stephen Squires, Human Agent
  • Defining the First Generation
  • Applying the Gray Code
  • 6
  • Artificial Intelligence: The Search for the Generic Expert System
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Expert Systems
  • IntelliCorp and Teknowledge
  • Managing Innovation
  • The Failure to Connect
  • The Rest of A
  • 7
  • Putting SC to Work: The Autonomous Land Vehicle
  • Crazy Walking War Machines
  • Working with Industry
  • The Tyranny of the Demonstration
  • The New Generation System
  • The ALV and Its Shadow
  • Part III
  • 8
  • ISTO: The Middle Years of Strategic Computing, 1985-1989
  • Reconciling Form and Function
  • Reconciling Vision and Budget
  • Strategic Computing at Age Four
  • Waitingfor the Wave
  • Strategic Computing 2
  • 9
  • The Disappearance of Strategic Computing
  • The FCCSET Initiative
  • Connecting the Supercomputers
  • The Gap between Conception and Legislation
  • Fields and Boehm in the Last Ditch
  • The Politics of Change
  • Disconnecting the Last Veteran
  • 10
  • Conclusion
  • Why?
  • How?
  • What?
  • Notes
  • Note on Sources.