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AI is currently applied in seven AI&DS research projects in five overlapping areas: software aids, image understanding, hypothesis formation, distributed AI, and AI for decision making. In addition, AI&DS has an interest in the areas of knowledge-based system development for various applications, advanced user interfaces, robotics, integration of information from multiple sources [Drazovich & Wishner-8 I], and fuzzy aids for control [Tong-801 and decision making [Tong & Bonissone-801 Current AI Research Projects This section briefly describes each research project at AI&DS that has some AI component. After the title of each ' research project, the principal investigator is listed. This research is to evaluate the need for and to design prototype tools that apply advanced software technologies to the problem of maintaining large software systems written in ADA. The technologies being considered include artificial intelligence, automatic programming, program verification, very high-level languages, program transformations, program optimization, and interactive programming aids.