Theona.Stefanis@A.CS.CMU.EDU (05/13/86)
PS SEMINAR Name: R. Bisiani, CMU Date: Monday, 19 May Time: 3:30 Place: WeH 5409 DEVELOPING INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS ON MULTIPROCESSOR ARCHITECTURES Our long-term goal is to develop a software environment that meets the need of application specialists to build and evaluate heterogeneous AI applications quickly and efficiently. Speech and vision systems are typical of this kind of AI applications. In these systems, @i(knowledge-intensive) and conventional programming techniques must be integrated while observing real time constraints and preserving good programmability characteristics. State-of-the-art AI environments solve some but not all of the problems raised by the systems we are interested in. Therefore, we are developing a set of tools, methodologies and architectures called Agora that can be used to implement custom programming environments. Agora can be customized to support the programming model that is more suitable for a given application. Agora has been designed explicitly to support multiple languages and highly parallel computations. Systems built with Agora can be executed on a number of general purpose and custom multiprocessor architectures.