daemon@ucbvax.UUCP (06/24/84)
From GSB@MIT-MC Sun Jun 24 01:20:28 1984 The U.S. Army Research Office, headquartered in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, has announced the award of a contract to the University of Texas at Austin for research and education in Artificial Intelligence. The award is for approximately $6.5 million over a period of five years. The University of Texas has established an Artificial Intelligence Laboratory as an organized research unit. Dr. Gordon S. Novak Jr. is principal investigator of the project and has been named Director of the Laboratory. Dr. Robert L. Causey is Associate Director. Other faculty whose research is funded by the contract and who will be members of the Laboratory include professors Robert F. Simmons, Vipin Kumar, and Elaine Rich. All are members of the Department of Computer Sciences except Dr. Causey, who is Chairman of the Philosophy Department. The contract is from the Electronics Division of the Army Research Office, under the direction of Dr. Jimmie Suttle. The contract will provide fellowships and research assistantships for graduate students, faculty research funding, research computer equipment, and staff support. The research areas covered by the Army Research Office contract include automatic programming and solving of physics problems by computer (Novak), computer understanding of mechanical devices described by English text and diagrams (Simmons), parallel programs and computer architectures for solving problems involving searching (Kumar), reasoning under conditions of uncertainty, and intelligent interfaces to computer programs (Rich). -------