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SRI's Shakey
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Robots & AI
SRI International's Shakey became the first mobile robot controlled by
artificial intelligence. Equipped with sensing devices and driven by a
problem-solving program called STRIPS, the robot found its way around the halls
of SRI by applying information about its environment to a route. Shakey used a
TV camera, laser range finder, and bump sensors to collect data, which it then
transmitted to a DEC PDP-10 and PDP-15. The computer radioed back commands to
Shakey -- who then moved at a speed of 2 meters per hour.
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People & Pop Culture
Vietnam War protesters attacked university computer centers. At the University
of Wisconsin, the toll was one human and four machines.
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Networks
Citizens and Southern National Bank in Valdosta, Ga., installed the country's
first automatic teller machine.
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ARPANET topology
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Networks
Computer-to-computer communication expanded when the Department of Defense
established four nodes on the ARPANET: the University of California Santa
Barbara and UCLA, SRI International, and the University of Utah. Viewed as a
comprehensive resource-sharing network, ARPANET's designers set out with
several goals: direct use of distributed hardware services; direct retrieval
from remote, one-of-a-kind databases; and the sharing of software subroutines
and packages not available on the users' primary computer due to
incompatibility of hardware or languages.
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