E1AR0002@SMUVM1.BITNET (Leff, Southern Methodist University) (07/12/87)
Summary of Spang Robinson Report on Artificial Intelligence June 1987, Volume 3, No. 6 AI and The Military In 1985, DOD AI activity was 91.1 million with funding of 500 million/year estimated at 1992. The rest discusses summary of military activities, hopes and prospects in the AI field including disillusionment on the part of some in industry. Gary Martins of Intelligent Software is quoted as saying "Early returns from the first two major AI projects under the strategic computing program show few real accomplishments... The autonomous land vehicle projected resulted in the construction of a handsome test track and a huge, lumbering van stuffed with computers running expert systems software. If it travels slowly enough (under three m.p.h), the van is sometimes able to make it all the way around the brightly lit, carefully marked, optically smooth course without serious mishap." "The pilot's associate project aims to produce a refrigerator sized computing system, having functionality comparable to a 3 inch by 5-inch check list car." Charles Anderson of the SDI group said AI would use would be quite low in the SDI project with no increase in the ADI budget for AI applications in spite of the fact that the ADI budget itself is growing." However, the SDI is still spending 200 million per year on AI. Rome Air Force Development Center is building a system to help decide if foreign rocket launches are threats. They also have systems to schedule pilots and aircraft hours. They also have an expert system that links together various office automation tools and can generate its own forms. ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() Shorts AION corporation's ADS is being extended to CICS and IMS and other IBM data base products. Lockheed has set up a 4.5 million dollar AI center. Symbolics has announced a single chip LISP processor which fits on one card after adding interface and memory chips. Coopers and Lybrand has developed an expert system to monitor brokerage accounts for irregularities. Allan Levine will be manager of Gold Hill's Los Angeles sales office. James McGowan will be Palladian's vice president of sales and marketing nad Thomas Murphy will be their director of sales. 40% of the Japanese Information Processing Association's presentations were related to AI . *(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*(*( This issue also include a directory of people working at various companies, agencies and the like in Military Artificial Intellgience and announcements of various tools and expert systems at the abovbe in J
jbn@GLACIER.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) (07/15/87)
>Rome Air Force Development Center is building a system to help decide >if foreign rocket launches are threats. I saw the RFP for that one go by when I was at Ford Aerospace. I recommended that we not bid, pointing out that an expert system to make launch-on-warning decisions was a singularly bad idea. Seen in that light, no one at Ford wanted to have anything to do with the program. Nevertheless, RADC apparently found somebody willing to spend their money. Fortunately, most of what RADC funds never gets deployed. John Nagle