Strategic Computing
DARPA and the Quest for Machine Intelligence, 1983-1993 (History of Computing)
by Alex Roland · first published 2002
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on “Ask HN: Computer Science/History Books?” ↗…in the context of enabling technology for modern software for the military. The MIT AI Lab projects in general were largely funded by DARPA. For some information about the later funding see this book: Strategic Computing, DARPA and the Quest for Machine Intelligence, 1983-1993 http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&... When the research created the first usable prototypes of hardware (the Lisp Machines…
on “Lisp Machines” ↗It's important to look at this in context of history. A lot of what came about today started under the Strategic Computing Initiative (link below). It was a massive investment over a period of time that threw money at every smart person or neat idea you could think of hoping for scientific equivalent of moonshots. We got…
on “The Connection Machine (1985) [pdf]” ↗