00100	QUALIFICATIONS OF THE STANFORD ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY
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00400		The Laboratory has operated a time-sharing system since 1966,
00500	now equipped with a PDP-10 processor, 256K 36 bit words  of  core,  a
00600	swapping  disk,  an IBM 3330 based file system with 600,000,000 bytes
00700	of storage and about  60  display  terminals.   About  45  users  are
00800	supported by the current system which is mainly limited by CPU power.
00900	The time-sharing system is quite stable.   The  Laboratory  has  been
01000	mainly  supported  by  a  research contract with the Defense Advanced
01100	Research  Projects  Agency's   Office   of   Information   Processing
01200	Techniques.   The  research  has  concerned  artificial intelligence,
01300	picture processing, robotics, speech  recognition,  and  mathematical
01400	theory  of  computation.   The  Laboratory  has  good  capability  in
01500	time-sharing system design, programming languages, and in the  design
01600	and fabrication of computer hardware.
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01800		We  also  have extensive experience in using the computer for
01900	composing, editing and printing documents.  Most of our  reports  are
02000	prepared  directly  at  a  display  terminal  and we are putting into
02100	service a printer that can put out arbitrary character texts and line
02200	drawings.  This gives us extensive experience in the use of computers
02300	for  interactive  tasks  other  than  programming  and   in   writing
02400	interactive programs that make this easy.