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.

Cognitive Science Ph.D. Program Accepting Applications for Fall 2017 The Cognitive Science Program is currently accepting applications for the Ph.D. program for 2017 fall matriculation. Information about the application procedure is available at Admission to the Cognitive Science Ph.D. Program. Deadline for international and domestic applicants is December 1, 2016. Information about this special program and the application procedure is available here. Deadline for applications for this special program is December 1, 2016.

Robert Wilensky, professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, and one of the campus's first faculty members in artificial intelligence when the field was just taking off, has died at age 61. He died at the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland on Friday, March 15, of a bacterial infection. Wilensky's career at UC Berkeley spanned nearly 30 years, beginning in 1978 when he joined the faculty in computer science. He later was appointed a professor at the School of Information and Management Sciences (now the School of Information, or I School), which he helped form. His many research interests included the role of memory processes in natural language processing, language analysis and production and artificial intelligence in programming languages.