[mod.ai] Seminar - Intelligent Systems on Multiprocessors

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.