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Strategic Computing: DARPA and the Quest for Machine Intelligence, 1983-1993 (History of Computing) UK ed. Edition

by Alex Roland (Author), Philip Shiman (Author), William Aspray (Editor)

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

This is the story of an extraordinary effort by the U.S. Department of Defense to hasten the advent of "machines that think." From 1983 to 1993, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) spent an extra $1 billion on computer research aimed at achieving artificial intelligence. The Strategic Computing Initiative (SCI) was conceived as an integrated plan to promote computer chip design and manufacture, computer architecture, and artificial intelligence software. What distinguished SCI from other large-scale technology programs was that it self-consciously set out to advance an entire research front. The SCI succeeded in fostering significant technological successes, even though it never achieved machine intelligence. The goal provided a powerful organizing principle for a suite of related research programs, but it did not solve the problem of coordinating these programs. In retrospect, it is hard to see how it could have.In Strategic Computing, Alex Roland and Philip Shiman uncover the roles played in the SCI by technology, individuals, and social and political forces. They explore DARPA culture, especially the information processing culture within the agency, and they evaluate the SCI's accomplishments and set them in the context of overall computer development during this period. Their book is an important contribution to our understanding of the complex sources of contemporary computing.

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Alex Roland is Professor of History at Duke University.

Philip Shiman is a member of the Defense Acquisition History Project, a government-sponsored team researching defense acquisition from 1945 to the present.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ The MIT Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 13, 2002
Edition ‏ : ‎ UK ed.
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 456 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0262529262
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0262529266
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.33 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.03 x 9 inches
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Alex Roland is Professor of History Emeritus at Duke University, where he taught Military History and the History of Technology. A 1966 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Professor Roland served in the Marine Corps before taking his PhD in History at Duke in 1974. From 1973 to 1981 he was a historian with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. After returning to Duke in 1981, he chaired the Department of History (1995-2000) and held the Harold K. Johnson Chair of Military History at the Military History Institute, U.S. Army War College, and the Dr. Leo Shifrin Chair of Naval-Military History at the U.S. Naval Academy. His books include Underwater Warfare in the Age of Sail (1978), Model Research: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1915-1958 (1985), The Military Industrial Complex (2001), with Richard Preston and Sidney Wise, Men in Arms: A History of Warfare and Its Interrelationships with Western Society (5th ed., 1991), with Philip Shiman, Strategic Computing: DARPA and the Quest for Machine Intelligence, 1983-1993 (2002), and with W. Jeffrey Bolster and Alexander Keyssar, The Way of the Ship: America’s Maritime History Reenvisioned, 1600-2000 (2008). He has edited A Spacefaring People (1985) and, with Peter Galison, Atmospheric Flight in the Twentieth Century (2000). He is a past President of the Society for the History of Technology and Vice President of the Society for Military History.