From: Harris, Brad (BHarris@schafercorp-ballston.com)
Date: 09/18/00
Folks-
Following is from an article about DARPA in today's NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/18/technology/18NECO.html
Nice to see we're attracting the right kind of attention.
-JH
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In both cases, the need for artificial intelligence is obvious.
Even if the ability of humans to interact easily with
computers were vastly improved by, say, flawless voice
recognition software, the amount of information flooding in
would be overwhelming. The agency's response includes
research on software that can screen widely diverse data
sources for relevant trends, automatically reshape networks
and write new programs to respond rapidly to emerging
needs.
One project partly addressing such concerns is the effort to
develop so-called Darpa agent markup language. D.A.M.L.,
as the language is known in technical circles, would would
create a universal format for telling computers what kind of
information is in a data source. It would allow Internet
search machines to extract data not just from the World
Wide Web but from computer programs, sensors and other
machines.
The computer language embodies one of the major changes
the agency has confronted in adapting to the information age.
While much of the agency's work still focuses on technology
that it would just as soon see stay in American military
hands, there are a growing number of developments that will
go nowhere unless they also permeate civilian life.
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