∂19-FEB-75  0922		network site ISIA
 Date: 19 FEB 1975 0922-PST
 From: LICKLIDER at USC-ISI
 Subject: Possible New Program Areas 
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 (This message for all Principal Investigators)
 	
 	One of the topics for discussion at the PI Conference in San
 Diego, March 12-14, will be new areas in which IPTO should support
 research and development.  Among the areas on IPTO's list of possible
 new areas are:
 	
 		1.  Distributed Measurements and Sensors
 	
 		2.  Integrated Information Services
 	
 		3.  Logistics (including automation of the procurement
 		    function)
 	
 		4.  Automation of Production
 i
 		5.  Intelligent Weapons
 	
 		6.  Modeling
 	
 		7.  Natural Language
 	
 		8.  Speech Understanding Systems (a follow-on to the
 		    present program)
 	
 		9.  Image Understanding (a follow-on to Image Processing
 	
 	       10.  Optical Computing
 
 	       11.  Distributed Computing
 	
 	       12.  Practicing and Exercising Complex Systems with the
 		    Aid of Simulation and Networking
 	
 	       13.  Replacing Intravehicular Wiring by Busses with 
 	            Packet Switching or other Network Techniques
 	
 	If any of you would like to add topics to the list, please do
 so through Dave Carlstrom.  If you would like to contribute a position
 paper on any of the topics, please coordinate it through Dave Carlstrom
 but send it directly to the Principal Investigators (via mail or
 ARPANET) in time for study before the Conference.  So far, within
 IPTO, Karn has agreed to work up a position paper on Distributed
 Measurements and Sensors, Fields on Modeling, Carlstrom on Logistics,
 and Carlstrom and Walker on Intelligent Weapons.
 	
 	New program areas is an important topic for IPTO for two 
 reasons.  First, three of our seven "subelements" (Climate Dynamics,
 Speech Processing, and Image Processing) are getting near the ends of
 their planned 5-year programs.  (Climate Dynamics will be fully
 transferred to NSF by the end of FY76.  Image Processing -- now renamed
 "Image Understanding" -- will have completed its 5-year program by
 end of FY77.  The Speech Understanding Systems part of Speech
 Processing will have completed its planned program early in FY78,
 and the Secure Compressed Digital Speech part will by that time have 
 become part of Integrated Command-Control-Communication Systems.)
 Second, ARPA has a new Director, and new Directors sometimes are
 inclined to turn some things off and other things on.  It would be good
 to have a vigorious discussion of new program areas at the PI 
 Conference.
 	
 	Let me add a note to what I said about the Speech Processing
 and Image Processing subelements.  The Speech Understanding Systems
 Steering Committee is preparing a prospectus for a follow-on Speech
 Understanding Systems program, and there is a predisposition, in
 IPTO, to move the focus of research in Image Processing to Image
 Understanding or Image Interpretation.  However, neither of those
 follow-on projects is decided upon, and each will have to withstand
 competition from other proposals for new IPTO programs.
 	
 		Looking forward seeing you in San Diego.
 	
 				Regards,
 	
 				Lick
 JCRL/hcb
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