CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2011
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: September 2, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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2 September 1986
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Administration
Director of Training and Education
SUBJECT: Carnegie-Mellon University
1. I got your note with the clipping from the New York
Times on the Carnegie-Mellon IBM connection. Interestingly, I
had seen the same piece on the airplane on the way to Monrovia
and pulled it out of the paper. Another example of the geniuses
thinking alike.
2. I F-who has a PhD in Computer Science from
Carnegie-Mellon--called the University and talked to the Acting
Head of the Computer Science Department, Professor John
McDermott,. Professor McDermott said that the Department would
be willing to take both a student and a senior
officer-in-residence. He said that the student, to work in
artificial intelligence (AI), ought to have at least a Masters
Degree in Computer Science and be at least somewhat
knowledgeable about artificial intelligence . Professor
McDermott said that they had an officer-in-residence from IRS
who met these requirements; in addition, IRS provides the
Department with $75.000 in "research funds" in association with
this individual. got the impression that the Department
has so many opportunities of this sort that they are not widely
enthusiastic but would be willing to go along with what we
wanted to do. (Of course,only talked to the Acting Head
of the Department, so it is a little unclear to what degree his
lack of enthusiasm but willingness to go along represents the
views of his Chief. We will have to find out.)
3. I do not think that we have anybody in OTE who meets
Professor McDermott's stipulations, but we will continue our
search and advertise the opportunity.
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SUBJECT: Carnegie-Mellon University
4. I passed the above information to Ed Maloney. He said
that, based on your note, he was already beginning to canvas for
candidates for Carnegie-Mellon. I told him that, as far as I
was concerned, the University would accept the right candidates
if we could find them.
S. Clearly, it makes a lot of sense to have one or more
Agency people at Carnegie-Mellon, so we will pursue this
vigorously. I will be in touch with IMS, OIT, ORD, and anybody
else that we can think of who would be interested in the AI and
computer science area . It is clear from the clipping that
Carnegie-Mellon is the place to be, and I think it would really
pay off for the Agency to be closely associated with what's
happening there. We will pursue finding a candidate vigorously.
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Please note the attacYioid
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clipping from the New York Times.
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I have been stating for some
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period of time that the Agency
should have someone at
Carnegie-Mei.on University who
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has an ADP background. Now I
believe it even more. Please get
together and arrange for an
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appropriate officer to go to
Carnegie-Mellon for a year's
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training in the field of
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artificial intelligence or
arrange to place an officer at
Carnegie-Mellon for two years as
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a "Professor" in Residence.
I see this officer as a GS-14
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to SIS-02; it should be an
individual who we believe can
represent us both technically and
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politically. We should view this
assignment as an investment in
the future--so we are looking for
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someone who has up to ten years
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THE NEW YORK TIMES, T
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By DAVID E. SANGER
effort. They also use an extraordi-
nary amount of computing power and
memory, meaning the prospect of
additional hardware sales.
'Something of an Awakening'
"There is something of an awaken-
spm.i to The New York Times Reddy, head of Carnegie-Mellon's
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 13 - The robotics institute and a leading au-
l%ernational Business Machines Cor- thority in artificial intelligence.
poration today announced a three- "Four or five years ago, when you
year multimillion-dollar project in mentioned artificial intelligence,
artificial intelligence with Carnegie- I.B.M. shrugged its shoulders."
Mellon University, as part of what the I.B.M. executives here said that
? company called "a major new I.B.M. within the last year the company had
Initiative" in advanced software. created an artificial-intelligence
nancing for Carnegie-Mellon re-
searchers developing "expert sys-
tems" that attempt to simulate
human reasoning and draw conclu-
sions, along with longer-range work
in speech recognition and robotics.
While I.B.M. said it would not have
exclusive access to the results of the
research, company executives at-
tending the annual meeting of the
American Association for Artificial
Intelligence here said they expected
those results would become part of
I.B.M.'s future software products.
e move appears to be part of a
rvajor shift within I.B.M., which has
tr?ditionally been weak in applica-
tions, software, programs that per-
form specific tasks for computer
users. Artifical intelligence, a set of
programming techniques that gen-
Under the terms of the agreement, project office that reports directly to
I.B.M. will provide equipment and fi- , I.B.M.'s management committee,
with unusually broad responsibility to
integrate new techniques in I.B.M.
products. In coming months, the com-
pany is expected to bring out its first
commercially available expert sys-
tems, primarily programs designed
for banks, insurance companies and
manufacturers.
"Strategically, this is now a very
high priority for us," said Herbert
Schorr, who is directing I.B.M.'s arti-
ficial-intelligence initiative. "It
should enable us to attract a new set
of users - like loan officers or insur-
ance underwriters - who can re-
trieve facts off their computers, but
get little analysis or instruction about
how to apply rules."
Many artificial-intelligence prod-
ucts are "development tools," or pro-
grams that help computer designers
prepare other programs; the use of
expert systems has primarily been
limited to medicine and manufactur-
ing, although an increasing variety of
such systems Is coming onto the mar-
ket.
Much of the most promising tech-
nology is still in university laborato-
ries, notably at Carnegie-Mellon, the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology and Stanford University.
Thus, companies are forming al-
liances with those institutions, espe-
i cially because it is relatively inexpen-
sive to transport software from the
laboratory to the marketplace.
Under the agreement announced
today, I.B.M. will provide Carnegie-
Mellon with about $5.5 million in com-
puter equipment and will negotiate
contracts for individual studies in ar-
tificial intelligence. The equipment is
primarily the PC/ RT, an engineer-
ing and scientific computer intro-
duced earlier this year that I.B.M. be-
lieves particularly well suited for ar-
tificial-intelligence applications.
Two years ago I.B.M. was stung by
charges that a pact with Carnegie-
Mellon to help develop the PC / RT
bound the university to secrecy
agreements that many academics
called unethical. In today's announce-
ment, it was careful to say the project
would be "open research."
"Carnegie-Mellon will own the soft-
ware it develops and is free to publish
whatever it wants," said John C.
Daily, who heads the company's Aca-
demic Information Systems unit.
"We will share in the results, but we
will not have exclusive access."
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