| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 427 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
History of computing |
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History of computing
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| Contents |
Machine 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-396) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
High performance computing.
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Artificial intelligence.
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Artificial Intelligence
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artificial intelligence.
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COMPUTERS -- Data Processing.
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Artificial intelligence
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High performance computing
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DARPA.
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Kunstmatige intelligentie.
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Engineering & Applied Sciences.
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Computer Science.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Shiman, Philip
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| LC no. |
2001056252 |
| ISBN |
9780262282536 |
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0262282534 |
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0585445303 |
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9780585445304 |
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0262182262 |
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9780262182263 |
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