The project is large and has a number of components that have been documented at length. These components have never been drawn together in one document; thus, this article describes the project and gives a taste of the individual subprojects that have kept the project members so busy for so long. A large number of publications have emerged from the project, so a full bibliography of the work appears for the reader who wants to follow up on any intriguing topics. AAP straddles a number of research areas and, thus, does not fall easily into any one sphere of interest. A certain amount of work has been done on the parallelizing of expert systems, most notably by Gupta (1986).

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The Advanced Architectures Project at Stanford University's Knowledge Systems Laboratory seeks to gain higher performance for expert system applications through the design of new, innovative software and hardware architectures. This research concentrates particularly on the use of parallel machines to gain speedup and the design of the software to exploit emergent paral-lel hardware architectures. This article describes the project and details its goals and the work performed in the pursuance of these goals. A brief description is given of each of the project components, and a complete bibliography appears of the publications produced for the project.

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