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From: peterc@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Peter Conkey )
Newsgroups: comp.ai,alt.desert-storm
Subject: Expert system plans bombing offensive
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Date: 22 Jan 91 18:05:38 GMT
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Organization: Dept of AI, Edinburgh University, UK.
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From a report in Monday's Independent newspaper :

"Thousands of minute pieces of information are fed into the MacDill
 [US Centcom HQ in Tampa, Florida] computers: mission reports, weather reports,
 damage reports, radio frequencies, mission altitudes, tanker refuelling
 rendezvous, bomb loads, reconnaisance information, electronic jamming
 operations, fighter escort details for the B-52s and even for fighter bombers.

 All this information is digested and fed into a computer known as Templar (or
 Tactical Expert Mission Planner) which revises the original battle plan,
 based on mission successes, and gives the commanders in the field a new one."

Presumably this is actually an expert system. Does anyone have any other
unclassifed information about this.

Peter Conkey