Title
Oral history interview with Saul Amarel
Publisher
Charles Babbage Institute
Abstract
Amarel begins the interview with a discussion of his interest in artificial intelligence (AI) and his early research in the field while at Radio Corporation of America. He provides a brief overview AI research at Carnegie-Mellon University and Stanford University in the 1960s and his establishment of the computer science program at Rutgers University in the early 1970s. Amarel also discusses the relationship of AI to computer science. The bulk of the interview concerns the Information Processing Techniques Office's (IPTO) support of research in computer science and artificial intelligence. The primary topics of this discussion are IPTO and Amarel's recruitment as director in 1985, the importance of strategic computing, the creation of the Information Science and Technology Office (ISTO) and the budgeting process for ISTO. Amarel concludes with his thoughts on current directions in AI research.
Previously Published Citation
Saul Amarel, OH 176. Oral history interview by Arthur L. Norberg, 5 October 1989, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/104339
Description
Transcript, 75 pp. Audio file available at http://purl.umn.edu/95658
Suggested Citation
Amarel, Saul.
(1989).
Oral history interview with Saul Amarel.
Charles Babbage Institute.
Retrieved from the University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy,
https://hdl.handle.net/11299/104339.