CS.NOVAK@UTEXAS-20.ARPA (06/19/84)
From: Gordon Novak Jr. <CS.NOVAK@UTEXAS-20.ARPA>
[Forwarded from the UTexas-20 bboard by Laws@SRI-AI.]
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).