Introduction to the COMTEX Microfiche Edition of Reports on Artificial Intelligence from Carnegie-Mellon University

ORIGINALLY IT WAS Complex Information Processing. I thank John McDermott, Alan Perlis, Raj Reddy, and Herbert Simon for comments on an earlier draft. CMU have entered into it with the usual spirit and perseverance. CMU has never had an Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In the earliest to go around, and rather than becoming something separate, work on complex information processing simply became one more aspect of the new look in the science of decision making.