This article is a slightly modified version of an invited address that was given at the Eighth IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Applications in Monterey, California, on 2 March 1992. It describes the lessons learned in developing and implementing the Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Program at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). These stages are similar to the "ages of artificial intelligence" that Pat Winston described a year before the NASA program was initiated. The final section of the article attempts to generalize some of the lessons learned during the first seven years of the NASA AI program into AI program management heuristics.

NASA's AI program has implemented Rather, it is to attempt to describe the lessons learned in the process of putting the program in setting up and carrying out the first together and carrying it out. Research and Development Program at the Did the plan work? How did National Aeronautics and Space Administration the program readjust? This AI program is sponsored by faced, and how would they be handled differently NASA's Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology. What are the heuristics used to The program conducts research and keep NASA's AI ship afloat in the churning development at the NASA centers (Ames, seas of government politics? It team never got lost in the process of setting also sponsors research in academia and industry, up the AI program, there were a few times primarily through Ames Research Center, when it was temporarily directionally disoriented. There were encounters with the NASA. The AI group at Ames, which is headed unforeseen that called for real-time reactive by Peter Friedland, has particular strengths in replanning.