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001 2001056252
003 DLC
005 20050411180523.0
008 011107s2002 maua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2001056252
020 $a0262182262 (hc. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aQA76.88$b.R65 2002
082 00 $a004.3$221
100 1 $aRoland, Alex,$d1944-
245 10 $aStrategic computing :$bDARPA and the quest for machine intelligence, 1983-1993 /$cAlex Roland with Philip Shiman.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bMIT Press,$cc2002.
300 $axxvi, 427 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aHistory of computing
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [333]-396) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology: Key DARPA Personnel during the Strategic Computing -- Program -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1 -- Robert Kahn: Visionary -- Switching and Connecting -- The Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) -- AI Autumn -- An Agent of Restoration -- 2 -- Robert Cooper: Salesman -- The Pull of Robert Cooper -- The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) -- An Agent of Transition -- Testing the Market -- The Pyramid as Conceptual Icon -- Of Time Lines and Applications -- 3 -- Lynn Conway: Executor -- Connecting with the Customer -- The Divorce of the Dynamic Duo -- Process and Personality -- The Plight of the Program Manager -- Part II -- 4 -- Invisible Infrastructure: MOSIS -- The Transformation of Microelectronics -- From VLSI to MOSIS -- The Value Added -- Public Good, Political Liability -- Other Infrastructure -- 5 -- Over the Wall: The SC Architectures Program -- The Connection Machine -- The Wall -- Stephen Squires, Human Agent -- Defining the First Generation -- Applying the Gray Code -- 6 -- Artificial Intelligence: The Search for the Generic Expert System -- Artificial Intelligence (AI) -- Expert Systems -- IntelliCorp and Teknowledge -- Managing Innovation -- The Failure to Connect -- The Rest of A -- 7 -- Putting SC to Work: The Autonomous Land Vehicle -- Crazy Walking War Machines -- Working with Industry -- The Tyranny of the Demonstration -- The New Generation System -- The ALV and Its Shadow -- Part III -- 8 -- ISTO: The Middle Years of Strategic Computing, 1985-1989 -- Reconciling Form and Function -- Reconciling Vision and Budget -- Strategic Computing at Age Four -- Waitingfor the Wave -- Strategic Computing 2 -- 9 -- The Disappearance of Strategic Computing -- The FCCSET Initiative -- Connecting the Supercomputers -- The Gap between Conception and Legislation -- Fields and Boehm in the Last Ditch -- The Politics of Change -- Disconnecting the Last Veteran -- 10 -- Conclusion -- Why? -- How? -- What? -- Notes -- Note on Sources.
650 0 $aHigh performance computing.
650 0 $aArtificial intelligence.
700 1 $aShiman, Philip.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy033/2001056252.html