Al Magazine 25

Packet Radio Terminal System Evaluation Tom Ellis and Steve Saunders Work intended to result in a demonstration-level portable terminal to test and evaluate various solutions to the issues raised by extreme portability in the packet-radio environment. The Stanford Heuristic Programming Project: Goals and Activities by the Staff of the Heuristic Programming Project The Heuristic Programming Project (HPP) of the Stanford University Computer Science Department is a laboratory of about fifty people-faculty, staff, and graduate studentswhose main goals are these: ...to model, and thereby to gain a deep understanding of, the nature of scientific reasoning processes in various types of scientific problems, and various areas of science and medicine; ...as part of the methodology, and as a coordinate activity, to construct "Expert Systems"-programs that achieve high levels of performance on tasks that normally require significant human expertise for their solutidn; the HPP therefore has a natural applications orientation. The HPP was started by Professor Edward A. Feigenbaum and Professor Joshua Lederberg (now President, Rockefeller University) as the DENDRAL project in 1965. Professor Bruce Buchanan joined shortly thereafter, and is Co-Principal Investigator of the HPP. For its computing facilities, the HPP uses the Stanfordbased SUMEX-AIM National Resource for Applications of AI to Medicine and Biology (a pair of DEC KI-10s and a DEC 2020); and the SU-SCORE machine (a DEC 2060).