MINSKY@OZ.AI.MIT.EDU.UUCP (03/14/87)
Subject: AFOSR Announcement <The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) announces a <new program of support for basic research on the computational <aspects of neural networks. This is nice to see. Nearly thirty years ago, some brave and imaginative officers at the AFOSR stuck their necks out and funded several individuals working on early connectionist and symbolic AI ideas. Many observers considered them irresponsible, but it led to a lot of stimulating discoveries. Now that the field has become respectable, their foresight ought to be acknowledged.