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Summary of Spang Robinson Report, May 1986 Volume 2, 1986 __________________________________________________________________________ AI at Darpa, the U. S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency This year, DARPA will devote $60 million dollars to AI research. 26 million of this is for basic AI research not included in Strategic computing, 22 million is for technology base research in Strategic Computing and 25 million is for large prototype applications in Strategic computing. In 1985, 47.5 percent of the research went to industry with 40.7 to universities with the remainder going to government agencies and federal contract research institutes. Oak Ridge National Labs is developing a system to assist in the analysis of budgets. List of DARPA projects in AI Autonomous Land Vehicle project Integration - Martin Marietta Terrain Data Base - ETL Vision Based Navigation - University of Maryland ALV Route Planning Research - Hughes Laboratory Telepresence System - Vitalink Navy battle Management Force Requirements Expert System - TI Spatial Data Management System - CCA Combat Action Team - Naval Ocean Systems Center, CMU Fleet Command Center Battle Management - NOSC Commander's Display Technology - MIT Pilot's Associate (two teams) Team 1: Lockheed, General Electric, Goodyear Aerospace, Teknowledge, CMU, Search Technologies Defense Systems Team 2: McDonnel Aircraft, TI AirLand Battle Management System Technology definition - MIT Soldier-Machine Interface - Lockheed Natural Language Training Aid - Cognitive Systems AI Planning System - Advanced Decison Systems Message Fusion - LOGICON Knowledge Engineering - BDM Butterfly Benchmarking - BRL/ Los Alamos Labs Interpretation of Reconnaissance Images (SAIC, Advanced Decision Systems, TASC, MRJ, Mark Resources, Hughes Aircraft) Multiprocessor System Architectures Tree Machines - Columbia University Software Workbench - CMU Programmable Systolic Array - CMU ADA Compiler Systems - FCS, Inc Synchronous Multiprocessor Architecture - Georgia Tech High Performance Multiprocessor - University of California at Berkeley VLSI design - University of Southern Carolina Common Lisp Framework - USC-ISI Data Flow Emulation Facility - MIT Massive Memory Machine - Princeton University Connection Machine - Thinking Machines Natural Language (BBN, System Development Corporation, University of Massachussetts, University of Pennsylvania, USC-ISI, New York University, SRI) Expert System Technology (BBN, General Electric, Intellicorp, University of Massachusetts, Tecknowledge, Ohio State University, Stanford University) Speech Understanding "250 word speaker-independent system with a large vocabulary" was demonstrated in 1986 Real Time Speech - BBN Continuous Speech Understanding - CMU Auditory Modelling - Fairchild Acoustic Phonetic-Based Speech - Fairchild Speech Data Base - TI Acoustic Phonetics - MIT Tools for Speech Analysis - MIT Speech Data Base - MIT Robust Speech Recognition - Lincoln Labs Speech Co-Articulation - NBS Speaker Independence - SRI Computer Vision Optical Avoidance and Path Planning - Hughes Research Laboratory Parallel Algorithms - CMU Terrain Following - CMU Dynamic Image Interpretation - University of Massachusetts Target Motion and Tracking - USC Reasoning, Scene Analysis - Advanced Decision Systems Parallel Algorithms - MIT Spatial Representation Modelling- SRI Parallel Environments - University of Rochester Also: Compact Lisp Machine - Texas Instruments __________________________________________________________________________ Japan Watch ICOT is developing a new personal use Prolog work station called PSI-II which will be smaller and faster than the first version, PSI-I. PSI-II is targeted to cost $55,500. 60 PSI units have already been installed and the version 2.0 of the operating system has been replaced. Sega Enterprises will market in mid-April a Prolog-based personal computer for CAI for children in elementary school. Nippon Steel Corporation and Mitsubishi have been testing PROLOG for process control software. At the Information Processing Society of Japan's national convention, 30 percent of the papers were AI related. Fujitsu has a scheduling system for computers which will be used with a total of 140 CPU's and peripherals for software development in Fujitsu's Numazu Works. Mitsubishi Electric has announced an expert sytem for making estimates of machinery products NEC says it will use TMS or dependency-directed backtracking in its PECE system and it will be used in diagnosis. __________________________________________________________________________ Other: Tecknowledge announced revenue of 4 million and income of $180 thousand for third fiscal quarter. Symbolics has released version 7.0 of its LISP software. Kurzweill has raised seven million in its third round of venture capital. IBM has announced an expert system environment for MVS which is similar to their product running under VM. Battelle is developing a natural language interface for databases which is independent of domain and DBMS. It runs on a Xerox LISP machine and interfaces with a DBMS on a mainframe. They also have a package for PC's which links with a mainframe and is available in French and German Digitalk's Smalltalk environment, Methods, now can communicate with remote UNIX computers. A toolkit for design of voice or telephone application packages which interfaces with TI-Speech technology, has been announced by Denniston. Intermetrics is beta testing its Common LISP 370 for IBM mainframes. It includes interfaces with C and Fortran. A District Court found that ArtellIgence's OPS5+ product was developed by Computer Thought employees during their employment with Computer Thought. Compuater Thought has a Judgement and permanent injunction against ArtellIgence. MIT has started a project to explore the relationship between symbolic and numeric computing, called Mixed Computing.