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Table of Contents
Contents
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 AI
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
Waiting for 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
Index
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