Heuristic Programming Project: October 1979-September 1982

Abstract : The overall purpose of the contract was to support basic and applied research into the science and engineering of knowledge-based systems. This work had four major subcomponents: 1) Basic Research in Knowledge Acquisition, Representation, Utilization, and Evaluation; 2) Development of Tools of Facilitate the Process of Knowledge-Based Systems Construction; 3) Propagation of the Tools and Techniques of this Discipline to Other Areas of DOD Interest; and 4) Initial Work on the Application of Knowledge Engineering Methodologies to Problems in VLSI Design. The Heuristic Programming Project is a group of professors, research scientists, programmers, and students within the Stanford University Computer Science Department. It has long-standing research goals of applying the methodologies of applied artificial intelligence to difficult problems in science, engineering, and medicine. To accomplish these goals, HPP work ranges from basic research in the fundamentals of knowledge representation and acquisition to specific projects to produce functional problem-solving system in areas as diverse as infectious disease treatment and design of integrated circuits.