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Subject: New Generation computing: Japanese and U.S. views
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Date: Mon, 12-Dec-83 18:29:10 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 12 18:29:10 1983
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From:  Ron Newman <Newman.es@PARC-MAXC.ARPA>

  [The following is a direct submission to AIList, not a reprint.
  It has also appeared on the Stanford bboards, and has generated
  considerable discussion there.  I am distributing this and the
  following two reprints because they raise legitimate questions
  about the research funding channels available to AI workers.  My
  distribution of these particular messages should not be taken as
  evidence of support for or against military research. -- KIL]

from Japan:

  "It is necessary for each researcher in the New Generation Computer
technology field to work for world prosperity and the progress of
mankind.

  "I think it is the responsibility of each researcher, engineer and
scientist in this field to ensure that KIPS [Knowledge Information
Processing System] is used for good, not harmful, purposes.  It is also
necessary to investigate KIPS's influence on society concurrent with
KIPS's development."

  --Tohru Moto-Oka, University of Tokyo, editor of the new journal "New
Generation Computing", in the journal's founding statement (Vol. 1, No.
1, 1983, p. 2)



and from the U.S.:

  "If the new generation technology evolves as we now expect, there will
be unique new opportunities for military applications of computing.  For
example, instead of fielding simple guided missiles or remotely piloted
vehicles, we might launch completely autonomous land, sea, and air
vehicles capable of complex, far-ranging reconnaissance and attack
misssions.  The possibilities are quite startling, and suggest that new
generation computing could fundamentally change the nature of future
conflicts."

  --Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, "Strategic Computing:
New Generation Computing Technology: A Strategic Plan for its
Development and Application to Critical Problems in Defense,"  28
October 1983, p. 1