QUALIFICATIONS OF THE STANFORD ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY


	 ␈ ↓The ␈ ↓Laboratory ␈ ↓has ␈ ↓operated ␈ ↓a ␈ ↓time-sharing ␈ ↓system ␈ ↓since ␈ ↓1966, ␈ ↓now ␈ ↓equipped ␈ ↓with a PDP-10 processor, 256K 36
bit ␈ βwords ␈ βof ␈ βcore, ␈ βa ␈ βswapping ␈ βdisk, ␈ βan ␈ βIBM ␈ β3330 ␈ βbased ␈ βfile ␈ βsystem ␈ βwith ␈ α600,000,000 ␈ αbytes ␈ αof ␈ αstorage ␈ αand ␈ αabout ␈ α60
display ␈ ¬terminals. ␈ ¬About ␈ ¬45 ␈ ¬users ␈ ∧are ␈ ∧supported ␈ ∧by ␈ ∧the ␈ ∧current ␈ ∧system ␈ ∧which ␈ ∧is ␈ ∧mainly ␈ ∧limited ␈ ∧by ␈ ∧CPU ␈ ∧power. ␈ ∧The
time-sharing ␈ αsystem ␈ αis ␈ αquite ␈ αstable. ␈ αThe ␈ αLaboratory ␈ ↓has ␈ ↓been ␈ ↓mainly ␈ ↓supported ␈ ↓by ␈ ↓a ␈ ↓research ␈ ↓contract ␈ ↓with ␈ ↓the ␈ ↓Defense
Advanced ␈ βResearch ␈ αProjects ␈ αAgency's ␈ αOffice ␈ αof ␈ αInformation ␈ αProcessing ␈ αTechniques. ␈ αThe ␈ αresearch ␈ αhas ␈ αconcerned ␈ αartificial
intelligence, ␈ αpicture ␈ αprocessing, ␈ αrobotics, ␈ αspeech ␈ ↓recognition, ␈ ↓and ␈ ↓mathematical ␈ ↓theory ␈ ↓of ␈ ↓computation. ␈ ↓The ␈ ↓Laboratory ␈ ↓has
good ␈ ∧capability ␈ ∧in ␈ ∧time-sharing ␈ ∧system ␈ ∧design, ␈ ∧programming ␈ ∧languages, ␈ ∧and ␈ ∧in ␈ βthe ␈ βdesign ␈ βand ␈ βfabrication ␈ βof ␈ βcomputer
hardware.

	 ␈ ↓We ␈ ↓also ␈ ↓have ␈ ↓extensive ␈ ↓experience ␈ ↓in ␈ ↓using ␈ ↓the ␈ ↓computer ␈ ↓for ␈ ↓composing, ␈ ↓editing ␈ ↓and ␈ ↓printing ␈ ↓documents. ␈ ↓Most ␈ ↓of
our ␈ ¬reports ␈ ¬are ␈ ¬prepared ␈ ¬directly ␈ ¬at ␈ ¬a ␈ ¬display ␈ ¬terminal ␈ ¬and ␈ ¬we ␈ ¬are ␈ ¬putting ␈ ¬into ␈ ∧service ␈ ∧a ␈ ∧printer ␈ ∧that ␈ ∧can ␈ ∧put ␈ ∧out
arbitrary ␈ αcharacter ␈ αtexts ␈ αand ␈ αline ␈ αdrawings. ␈ αThis ␈ αgives ␈ αus ␈ αextensive ␈ αexperience ␈ αin ␈ αthe ␈ αuse ␈ αof ␈ αcomputers ␈ ↓for ␈ ↓interactive
tasks other than programming and in writing interactive programs that make this easy.