Strategic Computing: DARPA and the Quest for Machine Intelligence, 1983-1993

Alex Roland, Philip Shiman9780262182263, 0-262-18226-2

The story of the U.S. Department of Defense’s extraordinary effort, in the period from 1983 to 1993, to achieve machine intelligence.

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Table of contents :
Contents……Page 6
List of Illustrations……Page 10
Preface……Page 12
Acknowledgments……Page 16
Chronology: Key DARPA Personnel during the Strategic Computing Program……Page 20
List of Acronyms……Page 22
Introduction……Page 30
Part I……Page 40
1 Robert Kahn: Visionary……Page 42
Switching and Connecting……Page 43
The Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO)……Page 50
AI Autumn……Page 55
An Agent of Restoration……Page 61
The Pull of Robert Cooper……Page 68
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)……Page 71
An Agent of Transition……Page 75
Testing the Market……Page 85
The Pyramid as Conceptual Icon……Page 92
Of Time Lines and Applications……Page 100
Connecting with the Customer……Page 112
The Divorce of the Dynamic Duo……Page 124
Process and Personality……Page 131
The Plight of the Program Manager……Page 138
Part II……Page 144
The Transformation of Microelectronics……Page 146
From VLSI to MOSIS……Page 148
The Value Added……Page 160
Public Good, Political Liability……Page 165
Other Infrastructure……Page 169
The Connection Machine……Page 178
The Wall……Page 183
Stephen Squires, Human Agent……Page 187
Defining the First Generation……Page 194
Applying the Gray Code……Page 203
Artificial Intelligence (AI)……Page 214
Expert Systems……Page 219
IntelliCorp and Teknowledge……Page 225
Managing Innovation……Page 230
The Failure to Connect……Page 235
The Rest of AI……Page 237
Crazy Walking War Machines……Page 244
Working with Industry……Page 251
The Tyranny of the Demonstration……Page 258
The New Generation System……Page 266
The ALV and Its Shadow……Page 272
Part III……Page 278
Reconciling Form and Function……Page 280
Reconciling Vision and Budget……Page 290
Strategic Computing at Age Four……Page 293
Waiting for the Wave……Page 301
Strategic Computing 2……Page 308
9 The Disappearance of Strategic Computing……Page 314
The FCCSET Initiative……Page 315
Connecting the Supercomputers……Page 322
The Gap between Conception and Legislation……Page 325
Fields and Boehm in the Last Ditch……Page 331
The Politics of Change……Page 339
Disconnecting the Last Veteran……Page 343
10 Conclusion……Page 348
Why?……Page 349
How?……Page 350
What?……Page 354
Notes……Page 362
Note on Sources……Page 426
A……Page 434
B……Page 435
C……Page 436
D……Page 439
F……Page 440
G……Page 441
H……Page 442
I……Page 443
J……Page 444
L……Page 445
M……Page 446
N……Page 447
P……Page 449
R……Page 450
S……Page 451
T……Page 453
U……Page 454
W……Page 455
Z……Page 456