Non-Technical Bob Taylor, who was a young man worked at the Pentagon from 1965 till 1969 as the director of the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO). He had his office one floor lower than his boss" office Charles Herzfeld, who was the head of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). Taylor had his suite, besides his office, with three different computers as the terminal room. Each computer was linked to a different site, to MIT in Cambridge, UC Berkley and Santa Monica, CA. The fact of having three computers in his office reflects the importance of the IPTO. ...

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And Fred Jelinek led a group of scientists on an ambitious project of developing unrestricted speech recognition technology, an effort that led to a leadership position of IBM in this area as well as the formation of competitive efforts like that of the Dragon company by departing members of his group. ...

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Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the area of computer science focusing on creating machines that can engage on behaviors that humans consider intelligent. The ability to create intelligent machines has intrigued humans since ancient times and today with the advent of the computer and ...

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