"A look at the uses of computer hardware and software in the Defense Department. Shot on location at various military installations around the country. Featured are demonstrations of SDI, the Strategic Defense Initiative, the AEGIS combat control system on board the USS Valley Forge advanced navy cruiser, and the Air Force's Advanced Sensory Exploitation System using distributed networks and artificial intelligence to detect enemy threats."
Date of Video:
1986
Color. Sound. Length (min:sec): 29:41.
Copyright Info:
KCSM-TV (San Mateo, CA) & WITF-TV (Harrisburg, PA)
2:51 overview of the Navy's AEGIS combat control system
8:00 - 13:27 visit to the Air Force's Rome Air Development Center to see expert systems in use and understand their impact
13:33 the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, Star Wars)
18:22 Raj Reddy (Director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University) and others discuss the nature and implications of using computers, robots and other technology in warfare
22:07 Raj Reddy discusses some DARPA funded research that has civilian applications
24:45 Random Access: industry news including reports about Apple, Microsoft, and Wang, plus Paul Schindler's software review of "I Ching."
