Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!ucselx!bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!acad3.alaska.edu!fnwlr1 From: fnwlr1@acad3.alaska.edu (RUTHERFORD WALTER L) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Shooting pigeons Message-ID: <1991Mar27.215225.25491@ims.alaska.edu> Date: 27 Mar 91 21:52:25 GMT References: <4754@syma.sussex.ac.uk> Sender: usenet@ims.alaska.edu (J Random USENET) Reply-To: fnwlr1@acad3.alaska.edu Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks Lines: 19 News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4 Nntp-Posting-Host: acad3.alaska.edu In article , moskowit@paul.rutgers.edu (Len Moskowitz) writes... >I'm surprised that no one has pointed out that this problem has been >addressed and solved very nicely using traditional ( non-AI) >technologies. No AI is needed to track a ballistic target, determine >its centroid, and to aim and fire a weapon. > I was also waiting for someone else to point out that we already have a system to do this and more... they call it Patroit. Good luck getting the designers to answer technical questions though. :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Walter Rutherford P.O. Box 83273 \ / Computers are NOT intelligent; Fairbanks, Alaska 99708 - X - / \ they just think they are! fnwlr1@acad3.alaska.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------