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The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has announced
"Authoring Intelligent Training Systems with Speech Interaction
Capability" as a topic in the FY'96 DoD Multidisciplinary
University Research Initiative Program. The objective is
"to design and prototype an authoring system that would support
authors in producing artificially intelligent training systems
for Naval applications that are integrated with job-relevant
interactive electronic documentation and have true natural
language interaction capability, integrating state-of-the-art
speech recognition and generation with appropriate dialogue
structure." (It would speak in shorter sentences, I presume.)
$1.5M/year may be available, split between 1-2 projects led by
US institutions of higher education. 5-page white papers are
due 12/15/95; proposals will be due 3/20/96. See
. [Helen Gigley
, NL-KR, 10/25/95.]
An NSF task force on the Future of the NSF
Supercomputer Centers Program has filed its final report
with the National Science Board. It's available at
,
with pointers to other studies. [Richard E. Kaplan
, comp.sys.intel, 10/25/95.]
Navy Capt. Kathleen Paige, Aegis technical director,
said at a recent conference that DoD's Ada policy will have to
change within the next few years. One problem is that it takes
at least six months for an Ada compiler to be available for
any new processor. [Aerospace Daily, 10/2/95. Al Underbrink.]
The House intends to change the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) back into the National Bureau
of Standards (NBS), dropping technology thrusts such as
the Advanced Technology Program (aka "corporate welfare,"
previously known as "strategic research for competitiveness").
NBS and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA)
would fall within a new National Institute of Science
and Technology (NIST), so "NBS can use the old towels."
The President still plans to veto the dismantling of Commerce.
[Robert L. Park, WHAT'S NEW, 10/27/95.]
If you want to help Congress set priorities, better
do your homework. The National Budget Simulater from UCB's
Center for Community Economic Research is
.
For info on California's budget and community economics groups,
see . Other
international, national, regional, and local government-related
servers can be found on ,
from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). [INFOBITS, 10/95.]
