That was a fun read, especially the history of Admiral Inman setting up MCC. He was on the board of directors for my company and for years I had to pitch to him and a small committee to get IR&D funds. I also got a brief tour of MCC from him when it was getting set up. He was in a really good mood because he had just arranged the hire of Douglas Lenat.
As mentioned in the article, Feigenbaum's and McCorduck's book on the Japanese 5th generation project had caused quite a stir in the USA, and I think that it made it easier for me personally to get IR&D funding for anything AI-ish.
Perhaps off topic: I view Prolog as almost a scripting language because most programs I wrote in Prolog were short and solved one little problem. The only long Prolog program I every wrote was a quick one week rewrite of a 5 week IR&D project that was a prototype battlefield simulator that I wrote in Lisp. I can't imagine writing a million line system in Prolog.
As mentioned in the article, Feigenbaum's and McCorduck's book on the Japanese 5th generation project had caused quite a stir in the USA, and I think that it made it easier for me personally to get IR&D funding for anything AI-ish.
Perhaps off topic: I view Prolog as almost a scripting language because most programs I wrote in Prolog were short and solved one little problem. The only long Prolog program I every wrote was a quick one week rewrite of a 5 week IR&D project that was a prototype battlefield simulator that I wrote in Lisp. I can't imagine writing a million line system in Prolog.